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David Dodda
Personal blog · blog.daviddodda.comprogrammingcareer
David Dodda's personal blog at blog.daviddodda.com covers programming and career. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Building Complexity from Simplicity: An Interactive Web Experiment”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-04, 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 its series on automating a job application process. The one comment is a pointer to Part 1 and its earlier HN discussion, with no comment on 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.
Hi, I'm David, a tech enthusiast who loves bringing creative ideas to life. I write about frontend, backend, ai, homelab setup, and electronics. follow me on twitter for updates on my latest projects
Most-linked posts?
- Building Complexity from Simplicity: An Interactive Web Experiment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-31
- I automated my job application process2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-28
- I Automated My Job Application Process. (Part 2)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-31
What Hacker News says?
Part 1: https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-automated-my-job-applicati... Part 1 discussion (836 comments, 3 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42531695
Comment linking /how-i-automated-my-job-application-process-part-1
on “I Automated My Job Application Process – Part 2”Submitted I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' as a story · 897 points
HN discussionSubmitted I automated my job application process as a story · 655 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Reason Your AI Code Becomes Unmaintainable (and How to Fix It) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Automated My Job Application Process. (Part 2) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Automated My Job Application Process – Part 2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Complexity from Simplicity: An Interactive Web Experiment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Complexity from Simplicity: An Interactive Web Experiment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I automated my job application process. (Part 3) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion