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Benjamin Yolken

Personal blog · yolken.net/blogcareerstartupsprogramming

Benjamin Yolken's personal blog at yolken.net covers career, startups and programming. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Quitting a New Job”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
6HN people?
2021–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2021

Random thoughts from the perspective of a software engineer, particularly around tech careers and development processes.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Quitting a New Job
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted The end of Airplane.dev as a story · 470 points

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  2. Submitted Quitting a New Job as a story · 191 points

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  3. Submitted Signs you're about to be acquired (2020) as a story · 156 points

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  4. Submitted Goodbye, San Francisco as a story · 68 points

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  5. Submitted Quitting a New Job as a story · 4 points

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  6. Submitted Golang: Some batteries not included (2021) as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted Six Years of Recruiting Emails as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted How Tech Acquisitions Work as a story · 1 points

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