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Dave Paola
Personal blog · thedailydeveloper.substack.comprogrammingcareer
Dave Paola writes The Daily Developer, a personal blog at thedailydeveloper.substack.com about programming and career. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Why are non-DRY specs more maintainable?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
A not-quite-daily post on random development topics. Launched 3 years ago.
Most-linked posts?
- Why are non-DRY specs more maintainable?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-21
What Hacker News says?
Submitted High performers job hop when they can't find a high performance culture as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on ISAs (income sharing agreements) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing Shotgun Surgery in Ruby as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is redirect logic always so complex? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does this 90s-era theory predict the popularity of JavaScript? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Translating a 2d Android game to a 3D meta quest game as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unit tests considered harmful? No as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why are non-DRY specs more maintainable? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Parallelizing Your Agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Aren't Going Back as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building ChatBSC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can be right or you can be effective as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Hire Great Engineers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accommodate mediocre communication, but do not tolerate it in yourself as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Duplication Complex? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why are non-DRY specs more maintainable? as a story · 1 points
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