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Eric Brooke

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Eric Brooke's personal blog at ericbrooke.wordpress.com covers career, startups and programming. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Surviving as a Junior software developer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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18mentions?
4HN people?
2011–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2014

A journey of curiosity and unfinished thoughts

Most-linked posts?

  1. Surviving as a Junior software developer
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Surviving as a Junior software developer as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Socrates as a mentor? as a story · 9 points

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  3. Submitted Good books to read if you want to create a web startup as a story · 7 points

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  4. Submitted Visual overview of Ruby on Rails as a story · 6 points

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  5. Submitted Software Engineering Leadership as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted 14 tips how to survive as a junior developer at the start of your career as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted Becoming a junior Rails developer as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Railsconf 2015 reflection as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Growing beyond a junior software developer as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Building an open source program for technology co-founders as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Choosing a name for your startup as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Is ageism a lazy form of decision making? as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted The need to reflect on yourself as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Are you leading your careers? as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Good blogs to read for tech startups as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted A cold startup weekend in Seattle as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted What is startup weekend like - one example Vancouver as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Branding for tech-startups as a story · 1 points

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