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Ben Rudgers
Personal blog · benrudgers.posthaven.com · on HN as brudgersdesignprogramming
Ben Rudgers writes The Design of Unusual Things, a personal blog at benrudgers.posthaven.com about design and programming. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-20, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on why a video is boring. The only comment is about the author's video pacing and intended audience, not about any writing.
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 Design of Unusual Things
What Hacker News says?
Here is the prose your question motivated me to write. https://benrudgers.posthaven.com/remarks-re-ideal-project-fo... Basicially, choice of project is the least important aspect of learning anything. When you are seriously learning you won't have the technical experience necessary to make a well informed choice. Time spent doing something is valuable. Time spent choosing what to do is not. Good luck.
Comment linking /remarks-re-ideal-project-for-beginning-programmer
on “Ask HN: Projects one can build to get better at programming as a beginner?”Submitted Forbearance Negotiation Violence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThank you for taking the time, and for the really helpful comments/feedback. Very much appreciated. I think you've hit the nail on the head with the "Who is your intended audience?" - that is a very good question. I've been increasing the pacing of what I've been doing because retention has been poor. But on reflection, I think I've taken it too far and made something that is actually less engaging. [edit] just chec…
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on “Ask HN: Why is this video boring?”Submitted Multitasking is a bad thought (2023) as a story · 1 points
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