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Evan Smith

Personal blog · iamevan.me/blogprogrammingcareer

Evan Smith's personal blog at iamevan.me covers programming and career. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “The Incident Response Lifecycle”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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24mentions?
4HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2020

I am Evan and I'm a Site Reliability Engineer. This blog is a collection of technical topics and things I've learned.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Incident Response Lifecycle
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-14
  2. How to Talk to Customers During an Incident
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. worgman32 · 2024-07-12

    Submitted The Effects of Meaningless Work as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  2. thejokersthief · 2020-10-17

    Submitted Psychological Safety as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  3. redRanger72 · 2020-09-28

    Submitted How to Talk to Customers During an Incident as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  4. thejokersthief · 2022-06-05

    Submitted ChatOps: Building Someone You’d Want to Have a Beer With as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. thejokersthief · 2022-05-05

    Submitted Cognitive Load Is the Mind Killer as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. rbanffy · 2021-10-18

    Submitted The Incident Response Lifecycle as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. thejokersthief · 2026-11-01

    Submitted Where Did the Rest Go? as a story · 2 points

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  8. thejokersthief · 2025-02-04

    Submitted The Theory Behind Understanding Failure as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. thejokersthief · 2021-10-14

    Submitted The Incident Response Lifecycle as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. thejokersthief · 2021-04-22

    Submitted How to Move from Dublin to Berlin as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. thejokersthief · 2021-04-21

    Submitted Evan’s Bookmark Dump: Management Crash Course as a story · 2 points

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  12. thejokersthief · 2020-10-10

    Submitted An Example of SRE Onboarding: Skydiving for Nerds as a story · 2 points

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  13. thejokersthief · 2020-09-26

    Submitted The Road to Reliability: How to Deploy API-Breaking Changes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. thejokersthief · 2020-09-22

    Submitted Improving Reliability by Splitting Up API Breaking Changes as a story · 2 points

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  15. thejokersthief · 2019-01-17

    Submitted Building Someone You’d Want to Have a Beer With as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. thejokersthief · 2025-05-27

    Submitted You can drown in an inch of water, so take care of yourself as a story · 1 points

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  17. thejokersthief · 2025-02-06

    Submitted The Incident Response Lifecycle as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. thejokersthief · 2023-03-03

    Submitted CI/CD Best Practises: Scaling a Delivery Platform as a story · 1 points

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  19. thejokersthief · 2022-05-06

    Submitted The Importance of a Golden Path as a story · 1 points

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  20. rbanffy · 2021-10-19

    Submitted The Incident Response Lifecycle as a story · 1 points

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  21. thejokersthief · 2021-01-12

    Submitted 2021 Professional Development Plan as a story · 1 points

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  22. thejokersthief · 2020-10-03

    Submitted Please Stop Saying Sorry for the Inconvenience as a story · 1 points

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  23. thejokersthief · 2020-10-03

    Submitted ChatOps: How to Build Someone You'd Want to Have a Beer With as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. thejokersthief · 2020-09-24

    Submitted Dramatically Increase Reliability with a Simple Change: Split Up Deployments as a story · 1 points

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