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David Whitney

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David Whitney's personal blog at davidwhitney.co.uk covers programming, ai and career. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post for real-world lessons on API versioning, which the linked 2013 post covers. Only one comment, which points to it, is available, so the praise is brief.

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.

David Whitney is a software architect, international conference speaker and author in London. Talks, consulting, and corporate speaking bookings.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Sarkie · 2014-03-06Recommends
    This might be useful to look at from a real world point of view: http://davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog/2013/10/27/lessons-learnt-sca...

    Comment linking /Blog/2013/10/27/lessons-learnt-scaling-a-big-mainstream-restful-api/

    on “Best practices for API versioning?”
  2. Submitted Hardware Hacking with C# and JavaScript as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Hiring is broken - let's fix it with empathy as a story · 2 points

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  4. Submitted Computers Care About Code as a story · 1 points

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  5. Submitted The Programmers's Guide to Co-Designing with Agents as a story · 1 points

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