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Danver Braganza
Personal blog · danverbraganza.com/writings · on HN as nvaderprogrammingcareer
Danver Braganza's personal blog at danverbraganza.com covers programming and career. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “De Morgan's Flaw: Perform This Refactor Carefully”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- De Morgan's Flaw: Perform This Refactor Carefully2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-30
- Death Is Truth: Why Post-Mortems Work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-16
What Hacker News says?
Wow, this might be the push I needed to automate certificate renewal on my personal website [0]. Manually clicking `make renew-cert` was barely tolerable every quarter, but if I have to do it twice as frequently I may as well ask an LLM to figure it out on my behalf. [0]: https://danverbraganza.com
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on “10 Years of Let's Encrypt”Submitted Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover as a story · 467 points
HN discussionhttps://danverbraganza.com/ It's my personal landing page, hosts some articles and some toy webapps I've built: https://danverbraganza.com/tools/meeting-cost-clock?/ and https://danverbraganza.com/tools/kickboxing-combo-trainer?/ The design is based on my favourite sports coat which happened to be lying on the bed while I was editing the CSS!
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Show HN: Hangman in 3 lines of Python as a story · 58 points
HN discussionhttps://danverbraganza.com/writings/zero-based-ordinals ;)
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on “Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing”Submitted Knowing when to finish and knowing where to start as a story · 31 points
HN discussionIncidentally, a research preview of Sculptor is what I used to build my voice practice app, Vocal Mirror: https://danverbraganza.com/tools/vocal-mirror
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on “Show HN: Sculptor – A UI for Claude Code”Submitted Keysort: The Schwartzian Transform in Go as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThere must be something about this working strategy that attracts developers to build a technical implementation! I know there's a few others in the comments, here's one that I was able to whip up myself: https://danverbraganza.com/tools/third-timer?/
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on “Third Time: a better way to work (2022)”Submitted Connect Four implemented in three lines of Python as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIn this blog article from 2021, I warn about making this change without appropriate care, as it has been a source of common bugs: https://danverbraganza.com/writings/de-morgans-flaw-perform-...
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on “Truth Functional Logic for Hackers”Submitted Show HN: Vocal Mirror: get rapid feedback on vocal exercises as a story · 6 points
HN discussionA Danver Braganza Extravaganza - https://danverbraganza.com/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Names to Avoid in Software Engineering as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Poisoned Chalice and the Court of the Opened Eye as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zawinski's Law was Never About Email as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My most frequently used Jujutsu VCS commands as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Poisoned Chalice and the Court of the Opened Eye as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vocal Mirror voice self-analysis tool: Talk to record, Quiet to Listen as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How You Detach Sticky Notes Affects How Well They Stay Attached as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Christmas Songs That Do Too Much as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My most frequently used jj commands as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My most frequently used Jujutsu VCS commands as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: I built Third Timer, a Third Time-style timing app as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted De Morgan's Flaw: Perform This Refactor Carefully as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Death Is Truth: Why Post-Mortems Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving My Toothbrush, an Alexa Skill, with Go and the Help of AI Tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Estimates, Design and the Payoff Line as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zero-Based Ordinals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misapplying LazyRecursiveDefaultDict as a story · 2 points
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