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Charles Féval
Personal blog · fev.al/postsprogrammingcareerproductivity
Charles Féval's personal blog at fev.al covers programming, career and productivity. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Stop Interviewing with Leet Code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mention fev.al mainly for its typography, listing it among beautiful personal blog designs. The other comments discuss work journals and interview culture 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.
Software engineer in Vancouver BC. This blog is 100% meatbag certified.
Most-linked posts?
- Stop Interviewing with Leet Code2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-09
- /img/2024/focus.png2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-13
- The Eggplant Tp Dispenser2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-08
What Hacker News says?
I have too many meetings to get anything done. I'll go weeks, or months, without actually doing anything of real value. Eventually it comes to a head and I need to get things done to avoid going crazy. I go on do-not-disturb in our chat app, quit Outlook completely, and turn on a focus mode on my cell phone so people can't even call me. I'll end up working for 8-15 hours straight with no real breaks. I go to the bat…
Comment linking /img/2024/focus.png
on “Use a work journal”Submitted Use a work journal as a story · 1083 points
HN discussionThe stupid thing is that I messed up the link of the comic I included, which is pretty much the same :) : https://fev.al/img/2024/focus.png
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on “Use a work journal”Submitted Stop Interviewing with Leet Code as a story · 554 points
HN discussionWoops, thanks for letting me know, should be fixed in a few minutes. That's the one: https://fev.al/img/2024/focus.png
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on “Use a work journal”Submitted Best Practices – Why I Hate Them as a story · 115 points
HN discussionIn this one I show how to host it in various stupid ways https://fev.al/posts/blog-infra/ Though the idea of using a database to store the content could make things even better. Maybe sprinkle some redundant postgres?
Comment linking /posts/blog-infra/
on “Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll”Submitted Neuro Evolution of Augmented Topologies as a story · 95 points
HN discussionI pasted my email to my MP there if you want a boiler plate - https://fev.al/posts/opposed-to-s210/
Comment linking /posts/opposed-to-s210/
on “The Most Dangerous Canadian Internet Bill You've Never Heard of Is a Step Closer”Submitted The hardest thing about making decisions is saying no as a story · 85 points
HN discussion- https://henry.codes/ - https://www.fev.al/ - https://hugo.blog/ I just like this type of typography.
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on “Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?”Submitted Capacity Plan as a story · 60 points
HN discussionNice, a bit of a small web to it! https://fev.al I'm mostly writing about dev nowadays, and random tech stuff I've been doing, but I have a bunch of management posts from when I forayed on the dark side.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted My Blog Infra Is Gonna Make You Cry Tears of Blood as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThere, designed especially for you. Don't thank me, I'm a cardboard security expert, can do that all day long. https://fev.al/assets/2026/Carboard-bank-secure-box-template...
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on “Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead”Submitted Enshittification is a feature, not a bug as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThere are many reasons and there is a long way to go for these interviews to be inclusive and logical. I have been trying my best to change the culture around interviews and mention this to all hiring managers and interviewers to be more inclusive and use points from the following articles (not a complete list): Don’t Do Interviews, Do Discussions! https://thinkingthrough.substack.com/p/dont-do-interviews-do... Tech…
Comment linking /posts/leet-code/
on “Why Are Interviews Harder Than the Job?”Submitted Agile Done Wrong Is Not Waterfall as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://fev.al I'm writing about code and delivery. My most shared post is https://fev.al/posts/leet-code/ about why you should stop using leetcode for interviews. I have posted blogs multiple times here, I'm less active but should resume soon.
Comment linking /posts/leet-code/
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted The Let Them Theory as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSince we're talking about wordle dictionary there, I find it relevant to plug this in - the best words to solve wordle https://www.fev.al/posts/wordle/
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on “Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized”Submitted On Personal Relations as a Manager as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Practices (Why I Hate Them) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Fuck with My .bashrc as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's More to Do? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How do Git remotes work? And how do I self-host my own? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Corporate Kangaroo Court – The GitHub Edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some pretty cool Git tools to save your sanity and your kids as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Eggplant Tp Dispenser as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Opposed to Bill S-210, a Canadian bill that may introduce internet censorship as a story · 2 points
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