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Conrad Akunga

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Conrad Akunga's personal blog at conradakunga.com covers programming and career. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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12mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Per a commenter's description, the blog covers software development, especially C#, F#, PowerShell and databases, written from Nairobi. Comments are descriptive and cite no judgement of the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

I have been writing software professionally in Nairobi, Kenya for over 27 years. And I’m still learning.

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://www.conradakunga.com/blog/ Blogging out of Nairobi on software development and in particular C#, F#, Powershell and databases. One of the best ways to learn something well is to write about it.

    Comment linking /blog/

    on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”
  2. Submitted What Do You Agree to When You Accept All Cookies as a story · 329 points

    HN discussion
  3. That law/regulation would seem difficult for a court to uphold – e.g. a company being diligent and detailed in explaining its complicated policies, but getting dinged when someone is misled by their arbitrarily word-count-limited summary. But in any case, the example provided by the article does have a top summary [0] (it's the very prompt that the author investigates). And the individual line item settings are each…

    Comment linking /blog/images/2020/12/Reuters5.png

    on “What Do You Agree to When You Accept All Cookies”
  4. Submitted Dogs Will Always Bark – Part I – You Make I Check as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Stop Press – Running Linux GUI Applications in Windows as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted If Your Grandmother Had Wheels – She Wouldn't Be a Bicycle as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Standing in a Garage Doesn't Make You a Car- Why You Cant Just “Hire Developers” as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted On Career Progression as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Cost of Adding Features to Software as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted What do you agree to when you accept all cookies? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Getting Now Playing Information from WQXR – NY Classical Music Station in C# as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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