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David R. MacIver
Personal blog · notebook.drmaciver.com/postsprogrammingwritingcareer
David R. MacIver's personal blog at notebook.drmaciver.com covers programming, writing and career. Since 2019, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Writing Good Programming Abstractions”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Writing Good Programming Abstractions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-18
- Would you like some advice?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-18
- Improving Binary Search by Guessing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-30
What Hacker News says?
Submitted The social obligation to be bad at things as a story · 297 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Even Is a Number? as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Meta for Computers as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nice Problems to Have (2020) as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Good Programming Abstractions as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Set Operations on SAT Problems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Good Programming Abstractions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being Friends with Your Coworkers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting to Know the Right People as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Binary Search by Guessing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Temporary processing loops as a sometimes replacement for background threads as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Filtered sampling from sorted values with randomized binary search as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anxiety vs. Worry (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Would you like some advice? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Would you like some advice? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Norms of Excellence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defects Are the Responsibility of Programmers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Are Surrounded by Ghosts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Binary Search by Guessing as a story · 1 points
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