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Emil Sit

Personal blog · emilsit.net/blogsystemscareerprogramming

Emil Sit writes Thoughts on Systems, a personal blog at emilsit.net about systems, career and programming. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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3HN people?
2010–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2010

Emil Sit leads and scales technical organizations. This is his personal site, where you can find his writings and other information. Emil has worked at Toast, HubSpot, VMware and startups. Emil has a PhD in computer science and distributed systems from MIT.

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  1. Submitted Music education versus computer science education as a story · 4 points

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  2. Submitted How to Use the Git Protocol Through a HTTP CONNECT Proxy as a story · 3 points

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  3. Submitted Understanding SpringSource and the Spring Framework as a story · 2 points

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  4. Submitted Examining your personal programming style as a story · 2 points

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