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Ben Nuttall
Personal blog · bennuttall.comprogramminghardwareai
Ben Nuttall's personal blog at bennuttall.com covers programming, hardware and ai. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The surreal experience of my first developer job”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only linked post recounts the author's first industry job and its lies, deceptions and layoffs, and is linked as a similar story to an earlier HN discussion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The homepage of software engineer Ben Nuttall
Most-linked posts?
- The surreal experience of my first developer job2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-12
What Hacker News says?
This reminds me of a similar story recently posted to HN: https://bennuttall.com/the-surreal-experience-of-my-first-de... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28058816
Comment linking /the-surreal-experience-of-my-first-developer-job/
on “My first industry job: lies, deceptions, and layoffs”Submitted The surreal experience of my first developer job as a story · 743 points
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HN discussionSubmitted The surreal experience of my first developer job as a story · 3 points
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HN discussionSubmitted GPIO Zero: Developing a New Friendly Python API for Physical Computing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pi Weekly - MVP, Evolution and My Dream Job as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Greatgramps: A static site generator for GRAMPS family trees as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Piwheels: building a faster Python package repository for Raspberry Pi users as a story · 1 points
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