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bnj.com
Personal blog · bnj.com/blogprogrammingcareer
bnj.com is a personal blog at bnj.com about programming and career. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Cowboy Coding and the Pink Sombrero”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts concern "cowboy coding", making risky changes directly in production, with a pink sombrero as the running image. The comments are bare links or jokes and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Cowboy Coding and the Pink Sombrero8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-07-05
What Hacker News says?
The pink sombrero could have saved HN: http://www.bnj.com/cowboy-coding-pink-sombrero/
Comment linking /cowboy-coding-pink-sombrero/
on “Why HN was down”Submitted Cowboy Coding and the Pink Sombrero as a story · 9 points
HN discussionTens of thousands of paying customers and no backups ? No staging environment (from which ad-hoc backups could have been restored)!?!? No regular testing of backups to ensure they work? No local backups on dev machines?!? Using a GUI tool for db management on the live db?!?!? No migrations!?!?! Junior devs (or any devs) testing changes on the live db and wiping tables?!?!?! What an astonishing failure of process. Th…
Comment linking /cowboy-coding-pink-sombrero/
on “How I Fired Myself”Submitted Cowboy Coding and the Pink Sombrero (2011) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTesting? Shoot, we sometimes code in prod! http://www.bnj.com/cowboy-coding-pink-sombrero/ (article's not mine, but might as well be)
Comment linking /cowboy-coding-pink-sombrero/
on “Poll: Do you test your code?”Submitted Cowboy Coding and the Pink Sombrero as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cowboy Coding and the Pink Sombrero as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failure Modes of Automated Deployment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Anatomy of Email Response Rates (Infographic) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Experience in Low Bandwidth America as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cowboy Coding and the Pink Sombrero as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cowboy Coding and the Pink Sombrero as a story · 1 points
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