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David Reis

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David Reis's personal blog at davidreiscto.substack.com covers career and programming. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Legacy Shmegacy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-24, and you can follow it by feed.

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Occasional and random thoughts about Software Engineering and Leadership.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Legacy Shmegacy
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-25
  2. Should You Write Tests for Old Code?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted So You Want to be a Big Shot: Advice on playing the promotion game as a story · 44 points

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  2. Submitted Don't Improve Your Shit: Excellence is about what you don't do as a story · 4 points

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  3. Submitted Legacy Shmegacy as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted Legacy Shmegacy as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted The Case for Nitpicking: Why you should discuss style in code reviews as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Understanding legacy code, how to prevent it, and how to fix it as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Should You Write Tests for Old Code? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Should You Write Tests for Old Code? as a story · 1 points

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