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Brandon Savage

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Brandon Savage's personal blog at brandonsavage.net covers programming and career. Since 2009, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Why Recruiters Are Bad For Your Career”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

23mentions?
19HN people?
2009–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Brandon Savage's older post about GitHub as a single point of failure for online infrastructure. The comment cites it as earlier support for its own point about GitHub's outages.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why Recruiters Are Bad For Your Career
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. So many services rely on github that it has become a single point of failure for online infrastructure as we’ve come to know it. I remember seeing this shared many years ago [1] and not much seems to have changed in the interim. If anything the MS acquisition has only exacerbated matters. [1] https://www.brandonsavage.net/github-your-single-point-of-fa...

    Comment linking /github-your-single-point-of-failure/

    on “GitHub was down”
  2. Submitted Five Ways To Write Better Code as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Is Your Site Hacker News Ready? as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted When To Write Bad Code as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Why Coding Tests Are A Bad Interview Technique as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Why Recruiters Are Bad For Your Career as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Successfully Selling Your Own Products as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Github: Your Single Point Of Failure as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted How To Make Your Team’s Code Better as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Why Recruiters Are Bad For Your Career as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The Problem With (Technical) Paper Books as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Working From Home: Eighteen Months as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Scaling Up: Baby Steps (a.k.a. Asking The Right Questions) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Please, Stop Hashing Passwords Yourself as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted You don’t need a framework as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How using design patterns is like baking a loaf of bread | BrandonSavage.net as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Where do you find time to fix bad code? as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Always Return Something as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Best PHP Blogs to Follow as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted The Value In Offering “Time To Tinker” | BrandonSavage.net as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Working From Home: Eighteen Months as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted It's About The Customer as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Why Subversion Still Beats Git as a story · 1 points

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