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Chris Chandler
Personal blog · squanderingti.me/blogprogrammingcareer
Chris Chandler's personal blog at squanderingti.me covers programming and career. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “A Staff-shaped Hole: nobody has an effective Staff+ program (yet)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a write-up of a successful bug hunt, with the key explanation of the bug given in a punchline line. One commenter says they enjoy reading this kind of 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.
Chris writes about stuff here. Mostly from a technical angle.
Most-linked posts?
- A Staff-shaped Hole: nobody has an effective Staff+ program (yet)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-12
What Hacker News says?
Punchline - the line explaining the actual bug is here: https://squanderingti.me/blog/2020/10/28/extreme-debugging.h... PS: ignore the little link icons at the end of each paragraph... they don’t work! I love reading about a successful bug hunting expedition.
Comment linking /blog/2020/10/28/extreme-debugging.html
on “Extreme Debugging”Submitted Extreme Debugging as a story · 193 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Staff-shaped Hole: nobody has an effective Staff+ program (yet) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Staff-Shaped Hole as a story · 2 points
HN discussion