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Dave Stewart

Personal blog · davestewart.co.uk/blogprogrammingcareer

Dave Stewart's personal blog at davestewart.co.uk covers programming and career. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The work is never just "the work" (2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-05, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Only one HN comment links this blog, as a related read under the 'Cognitive Inertia' thread. The linked post's URL slug suggests it is about how work is never just the work. The comment does not judge the writing.

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.

Online portfolio of Dave Stewart; Open Source, commercial + personal projects

Most-linked posts?

  1. The work is never just "the work" (2022)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. Reminds me of https://davestewart.co.uk/blog/the-work-is-never-just-the-wo...

    Comment linking /blog/the-work-is-never-just-the-work/

    on “Cognitive Inertia”
  2. Submitted On mindsets, mind shifts and wins as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The work is never just "the work" (2022) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Modular site architecture with Nuxt layers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted On mindsets, mind shifts and wins as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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