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Evan Meagher
Personal blog · evanm.website · on HN as Mongooseprogrammingsystemscareer
Evan Meagher's personal blog at evanm.website covers programming, systems and career. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Momentum Is Magic”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited in the WP Engine versus Automattic thread, where a commenter uses the post's argument that synthesis is a form of invention against a claim that a blogging-tool fork lacked invention.
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.
Articles about systems, programming, and software engineering management written by Evan Meagher
Most-linked posts?
- Momentum Is Magic2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-11
- How to Avoid Overengineering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-01
What Hacker News says?
>Where is the invention? “it would be nice to have the flexibility of Movable Type, the parsing of Textpattern, the hackability of b2, and the ease of setup of Blogger. Someday, right?” Synthesis is a type of invention: https://evanm.website/2016/03/synthesis-over-invention/ >Another fork like b2evolution or any of the billion blogging tools at the time would have— People love to say things like this about any and a…
Comment linking /2016/03/synthesis-over-invention/
on “WP Engine sent “cease and desist” letter to Automattic”Submitted Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech as a story · 342 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Avoid Overengineering as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Momentum Is Magic as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Momentum Is Magic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Avoid Overengineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pseudo-periodic time series and how to encode them (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Momentum Is Magic as a story · 1 points
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