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Eric Lawler
Personal blog · lawler.io/scrivings · on HN as Eiriksmalcareerprogramming
Eric Lawler writes Lawler.io, a personal blog at lawler.io about career and programming. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Eric's Guide to Hiring Software Developers”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on engineering interviewing. The one comment is a general take on interview approaches and does not discuss Lawler's writing. The posts appear to cover hiring processes.
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.
Eric Lawler, Boise-based software engineering leader: Scrivings, musings, and more
Most-linked posts?
- Eric's Guide to Hiring Software Developers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-08
What Hacker News says?
After seeing Gwern's website[0], I immediately knew what design I wanted for my personal site [1]. Tufte's CSS package is much heavier than these three rules, but it achieves the same result: Content designed to maximize readability by removing distracting elements and respecting known typography rules. Because I write with an overly-large number of asides, I fell in love with the Tufte-styled side/margin notes. The…
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on “58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere”Submitted Show HN: A minimalist blog based on Tufte CSS as a story · 260 points
HN discussionTyping this from Fedora 31 running on a dual-boot, 4-month old XPS 15 (LCD screen, not 4K OLED). The only configuration change that has to be made on a new XPS is switching the SATA mode to AHCI. Fedora signs the kernel correctly--you don't even have to disable secure boot. Signing 3rd party kernel modules under secure boot isn't difficult, but documentation on it is sparse. So I've kept my notes for next time: http…
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on “New MacBook Air”Submitted Eric's Guide to Hiring Software Developers as a story · 140 points
HN discussionI don't think there is a silver bullet here. I've been working on our engineering hiring process for the last couple years for a company with ~200 engineers - reading everything I can on the subject during this while. Most articles complain about the status quo but don't offer any practical advice. When they do, it is some approach that may not be an option on most cases - e.g. 40 minute interview followed by a 90 d…
Comment linking /scrivings/erics-guide-to-hiring-software-developers/
on “Ask HN: What is a better approach to interviewing?”Submitted Warnings from the Past as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLocation: San Diego, CA Remote: Maybe. I prefer in-person. Willing to relocate: San Diego > San Fransisco. :) Technologies: Ruby on Rails + PHP + deep SQL (I prefer MySQL to Postgres) + obligatory JS front-end bits Resume: I've done a staggering variety of things: Programming, managing / CTO-ing (think product and business strategy), Linux + database admin-ing, server closet building, asterisk PBX administering... A…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)”Sometimes, it turns out the wind carries your voice farther than you thought. I submitted my blog to Hacker News a few years ago to see if I could get some sweet, sweet SEO juice for my name as I ramped up a job search. It managed to get to the top 5, which was enough to set the SEO flywheel spinning for quite some time. Months later, someone randomly submitted another of my prolix posts to HN--a mind-blowing moment…
Comment linking /scrivings/long-form-websites-and-typography/
on “Ask HN: Where do you post your writing?”