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Andrea Canton
Personal blog · andreacanton.dev/postscareerprogramming
Andrea Canton's personal blog at andreacanton.dev covers career and programming. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's 2020 git mantras post only to compare writing style with a newer post, questioning whether the newer post was written by AI.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Website of Andrea Canton a vegetarian fullstack developer based in Verona, Italy.
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/2020-02-19-git-mantras/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-08
What Hacker News says?
Ok, well this post seems very similar style from the same author. Why isn't this ai also? https://andreacanton.dev/posts/2020-02-19-git-mantras/
Comment linking /posts/2020-02-19-git-mantras/
on “Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)”Submitted Always be ready to leave (even if you never do) as a story · 132 points
HN discussionYou can compare the writing style from the earlier articles like this from 2020, pre-GPT. https://andreacanton.dev/posts/2020-02-19-git-mantras/
Comment linking /posts/2020-02-19-git-mantras/
on “Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)”Submitted Naming things: The most underrated skill in software development as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Multitasking Trap as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lead by Example, Not by Lecturing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smart Laziness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Always over Estimate Effort as a story · 1 points
HN discussion