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Ben Adam

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Ben Adam's personal blog at benadam.me covers programming and career. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2022–2022first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The comments only report that two stylesheets return 404 and that the page looks different, not anything about the writing. The thread is about the author leaving an Amazon job after 10 months.

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.

Founding engineer at agree.com. Previously ui.dev, Amazon and GoDaddy.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I think some of the stylesheets are not loading correctly, I get 404 on these: https://benadam.me/assets/prisma-dark.19c66771.css https://benadam.me/assets/work.b7de8a03.css

    Comment linking /assets/work.b7de8a03.css

    on “I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months”
  2. Submitted I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months as a story · 704 points

    HN discussion
  3. Huh! It's more than just colors, you have padding between paragraphs whereas I don't. I think the page must not be loading correctly? I do see these two stylesheets returning 404: https://benadam.me/assets/prisma-dark.19c66771.css https://benadam.me/assets/work.b7de8a03.css

    Comment linking /assets/work.b7de8a03.css

    on “I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months”
  4. Submitted The optimized way to render SVG icons in React.js as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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