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Benjamin Sandofsky
Personal blog · sandofsky.com/blogprogrammingstartupscareer
Benjamin Sandofsky writes Sandofsky, a personal blog at sandofsky.com about programming, startups and career. Since 2011, 39 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “You Can't Build Apple with Venture Capital”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sandofsky's blog for posts on git workflow, cross-platform app development with web technologies, and critiques of Lambda School and bootcamp income claims.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- You Can't Build Apple with Venture Capital7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-04-16
- Fast Crimes at Lambda School6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-06-18
- Shell Apps And Silver Bullets4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-05-08
- Understanding the Git Workflow3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-04
- The End of the Twitter Era2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-26
- Agile development in mobile apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-06
- Understanding the Git Workflow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-31
- Shell Apps and Silver Bullets2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-21
What Hacker News says?
The HN comment originally made by 'austenallred in https://www.sandofsky.com/content/images/2024/05/image-13.pn... is still available at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13502774 but is now by user '_pecl. The ownership of the comment changed between July 3, 2019 and January 31, 2020 according to https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://news.ycombinator.com/i... . I guess the author realized it reflected badly on h…
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on “Fast Crimes at Lambda School”Submitted Fast Crimes at Lambda School as a story · 610 points
HN discussionApparently yeah at least arguably the most prominent boot camp takes a verry broad stance on 'related' occupations for income sharing: https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/
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on “How America's universities became debt factories”Submitted Understanding the Git Workflow as a story · 378 points
HN discussionI guess "deprecated" is a bit strong, but it's definitely on the way out, and Cocoa with it. https://sandofsky.com/architecture/objective-c-in-a-swift-wo...
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on “Whose Computer Is It?”Submitted Writing Desktop Class Applications in JavaScript as a story · 66 points
HN discussionhttp://sandofsky.com/blog/apps-vs-the-web.html http://sandofsky.com/blog/shell-apps.html Cough.
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on “Build Cross-Platform Applications for desktop using HTML, CSS, Javascript”Submitted You Can't Build Apple with Venture Capital as a story · 24 points
HN discussionI wrote a similar suggestion in 2011: https://sandofsky.com/workflow/git-workflow/ As far as I could tell, this was the recommended workflow from the earliest users of git. Look at the Linux kernel's public history. When git gained widespread adoption, it was sold as "Subversion, but with cheap branching." People don't realize that this power requires discipline, otherwise you end up with complicated history that ma…
Comment linking /workflow/git-workflow/
on “A Better Git Flow”Submitted Shell Apps And Silver Bullets as a story · 24 points
HN discussionThe "Test Code Before You Commit" rule suggests that the writer does not distinguish between committing code and pushing code, between private changes and public changes. When you commit changes locally, you can always rebase to your heart's content before pushing. I think this says it best: "Treat public history as immutable, atomic, and easy to follow. Treat private history as disposable and malleable." https://sa…
Comment linking /blog/git-workflow.html
on “Git Cheet Sheet”Submitted A breakdown of Lambda School's rise and fall as a story · 21 points
HN discussion[ ] You want to use git (which allows for pretty awesome workflows)[1] [ ] You want to keep some external backup you can rollback changes from. [ ] You want to allow other people to collaborate with you. [ ] You want your work to be more visible. Check as appropiate. [1] See http://sandofsky.com/blog/git-workflow.html , and http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ for an example.
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on “Am I (Un)Hireable As A Coder?”Submitted Agility Follows an S-Curve as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI used to think the solution to the web’s gotchas was a framework to conform the web to a native app mentality. I built and deployed web apps with these stacks. I would never do it again. These frameworks build abstractions on top of abstractions. In every non-trivial app I worked on, the top abstractions leak, and you still have to hack HTML and CSS. Web technology is great for many things. Replicating a native app…
Comment linking /blog/shell-apps.html
on “Writing Desktop Class Applications in JavaScript”Submitted Fast Crimes at Lambda School as a story · 12 points
HN discussionBen Sandofsky of Twitter wrote a well-reasoned take on the whole HTML5 vs. native apps debate: http://sandofsky.com/blog/shell-apps.html I've had very similar experiences working on both HTML5 and native apps.
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on “Filepicker.io's "Don't write off HTML5" contest”Submitted The End of the Twitter Era as a story · 10 points
HN discussion> Thanks to Austen Allred Personally, I think some people could have used more listening to criticism, cough , I mean haters ... Growth hacking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13502774 https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/
Comment linking /lambda-school/
on “Haters”Submitted Oh the Humanity as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIt is Austen Allred's latest iteration of Lambda school/BloomTech. I guess that makes this their 3rd rebranding. I'd say the consensus is that it is a big scam. He has been smacked down by the feds and ordered to shut down in the past as well, so definitely not a legit operation. https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/18/feds_say_coding_boot_... https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/ https://x.com/sandofsky/status/12…
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on “Dubious hiring ad on HN front page?”Submitted Oh the Humanity as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAnyone wondering what a "fast-forward" merge is? https://sandofsky.com/images/fast_forward.pdf
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on “Ask HN: How often does Git merge make mistakes?”Submitted The End of the Twitter Era as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oh the Humanity: Why You Can't Build Apple with Venture Capital as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Coffee Machine as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Golden Bear Traps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding the Git Workflow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Objective-C in a Swift World as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Can’t Go Home Again as a story · 3 points
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