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Brandon Hays

Personal blog · brandonhays.com/blogprogrammingcareer

Brandon Hays's personal blog at brandonhays.com covers programming and career. Since 2011, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Your “high bar” is wrecking your team”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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16mentions?
12HN people?
2011–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

Most-linked posts?

  1. Your “high bar” is wrecking your team
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-21
  2. Why I still don’t contribute to open source
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-03
  3. Letter to an aspiring developer
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-06
  4. The question that made me quit the best job I ever had
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-20
  5. Open Source, Tech, and Tribalism
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. phiggy · 2011-05-03

    Submitted Why I still don’t contribute to open source as a story · 170 points

    HN discussion
  2. bootload · 2012-07-07

    Submitted The culture myth as a story · 86 points

    HN discussion
  3. brhays · 2018-06-21

    Submitted Your “high bar” is wrecking your team as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  4. grey-area · 2020-05-04

    Submitted Your "high bar” is wrecking your team as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  5. phiggy · 2011-05-23

    Submitted Getting newbies involved in open source as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  6. radmuzom · 2014-10-20

    Submitted Open Source, Tech, and Tribalism as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. phiggy · 2012-01-25

    Submitted Why you should learn to program (and why it’s easier than you think) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. statenjason · 2012-01-23

    Submitted Learning to Program, Part I: How I did it as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. metasean · 2016-01-31

    Submitted Open Source, Tech, and Tribalism (2014) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. brhays · 2014-04-06

    Submitted Letter to an aspiring developer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. digitallogic · 2014-01-20

    Submitted The question that made me quit the best job I ever had as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. phiggy · 2011-09-06

    Submitted Mentorship-Driven Development as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. reedwolf · 2020-02-07

    Submitted Why I Still Don’t Contribute to Open Source (2011) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. gnu · 2016-01-31

    Submitted The question that made me quit the best job I ever had as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. dibyo · 2014-05-03

    Submitted Letter to an aspiring developer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. trustfundbaby · 2012-04-24

    Submitted Making Peace with being Lame as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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