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Ceejbot's notes is a personal blog at blog.ceejbot.com about programming and career. Since 2022, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Reduce Friction: Do people still need to be persuaded to help their dev go fast?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-08, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Reduce Friction: Do people still need to be persuaded to help their dev go fast?8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-07-24
- Future Shock2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-04
What Hacker News says?
Some more details on `await` as a postfix operator rather than prefix https://blog.ceejbot.com/posts/postfix-await/
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on “Dada, an experimental new programming language”Submitted Reduce Friction: Do people still need to be persuaded to help their dev go fast? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe headline doesn't exactly match the content. The "simplicity sprint" is best described by this paragraph: > Pichai said the company is opening the floor for employees to share their ideas through August 15th through an internal survey that asks if management can reach out if they have follow-up questions. I expect this will actually be a valuable exercise. A company the size of Google must have a HUGE amount of s…
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on “Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve”Submitted Future Shock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reduce Friction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reduce Friction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Focus relentlessly on reducing developer friction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Design Docs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Future Shock as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding software and how it comes to be as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reduce Friction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reduce Friction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reduce Friction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reduce Friction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Legacy You Hate as a story · 1 points
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