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Bruce Taylor
Personal blog · tomaytotomato.com · on HN as tomaytotomatoprogrammingculture
Bruce Taylor's personal blog at tomaytotomato.com covers programming and culture. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Software certifications; a waste of time and money (2018)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal blog by Bruce Taylor. The only HN comment links a post titled 'certs-waste-of-time' about IT certifications, noting it was also on the front page alongside a Google certificate story.
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.
Code, commentary and stuff - Bruce Taylor
Most-linked posts?
- Software certifications; a waste of time and money (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-17
What Hacker News says?
I left LinkedIn over 2 years ago now, never looked back since. A lot of what I wrote is similar in theme - https://tomaytotomato.com/linkedout/
Comment linking /linkedout/
on “Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn”Submitted Software certifications; a waste of time and money (2018) as a story · 174 points
HN discussionI still have an Acer Aspire One (522) that I use for VAG diagnostics, as a laptop is too cumbersome to have inside a car whilst plugged in. This little Netbook served me well for light work, travelling and light gaming surprisingly. Never a bad memory of it, and upgrading aspects of it was fun to try and squeeze more out of it. https://tomaytotomato.com/acer-aspire-one-upgrade-2014-2/
Comment linking /acer-aspire-one-upgrade-2014-2/
on “Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)”Submitted Developer Tropes: “Google Does It” as a story · 160 points
HN discussionLocation: United Kingdom Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: EU or United Kingdom Technologies: Java, Springboot, Jakarta EE, SQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Solr, Elasticsearch, Vue.js, Linux, Bash, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes Resume: https://tomaytotomato.com/cv-resume/ Email: See CV
Comment linking /cv-resume/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)”Submitted RFV-0001: Request for Vibes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is also on HN's front page. https://tomaytotomato.com/certs-waste-of-time/ Interesting juxtaposition.
Comment linking /certs-waste-of-time/
on “Google offers certificate to help IT career growth”Submitted Louis Theroux Documentaries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's interesting to see the commentary on processed meat and inverting the pyramid. T It feels a bit Orwellian in some way - Oceania is always the enemy, Saturated fat was never the enemy. Meat is ok, I try and consume fish and chicken with the odd bit of beef, but the amount of chemicals that goes into processed meat like sliced ham would make a chemist blush. I wrote a light hearted blog piece just before the new…
Comment linking /no-ham-anuary/
on “Eat Real Food – Introducing the New Pyramid”Submitted Bringing a dead Spring Boot project back to life with Claude as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNote: this is the Bletchley Park Trust ( https://bletchleypark.org.uk/ ), which ironically doesn't own or maintain the code breaking and configuration machines. The machines are maintained and operated by the National Museum of Computing - https://www.tnmoc.org/ There has been some conflicts by these two entities, with Bletchley Park playing dirty a few times. Here are some of my thoughts on the place: https://tomay…
Comment linking /the-national-museum-of-computing-2/
on “Bletchley Park: New crisis for code-breaking hub”Submitted No-Ham-anuary: a retrospective on reducing my intake of processed meat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://tomaytotomato.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Java: Finality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Partitioning Your Digital Footprint as a story · 1 points
HN discussion