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Fagner Brack
Personal blog · fagnerbrack.com · on HN as fagnerbrackprogrammingcareer
Fagner Brack writes Stories by Fayner Brack on Medium, a personal blog at fagnerbrack.com about programming and career. Since 2021, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 76 times, most often “Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for software book reviews and essays on software project management. One commenter says they enjoyed the author's blog, and another disputes an article on fixed time and scope.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-21
- The Danger of "Modern" Open Source3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-14
- Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-31
- The Debate of Mockist vs. Classicist TDD Is Like OOP vs. FP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-02
- Learn Algorithms for Interviews, Forget Them for Work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-30
- Learn Python the Hard Way Was Right About One Thing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-12
- The Reasons Behind JavaScript’s Success2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-29
What Hacker News says?
Nothing at all to do with the book review, but I enjoyed the OP's Medium blog: https://fagnerbrack.com
Comment linking /
on “Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design (2020)”Submitted What AI-Native Looks Like as a story · 24 points
HN discussionWelcome to the industry: https://fagnerbrack.com/youre-not-praised-for-the-bugs-you-d... Honestly I don't think there's a solution other than pointing out when the bugs DONT happen, which is very hard unless you can produce an alternative universe to compare to ppl who don't understand software
Comment linking /youre-not-praised-for-the-bugs-you-didn-t-create-ef3df6894d5c
on “Ask HN: Prove Impact by Being Boring?”Submitted How the Fuck Did We Get Here? as a story · 20 points
HN discussionArticle seems to confuse Lean with agile (delivering small chunks of value). Everything else is an explanation of the project management triangle, including using the image without ever mentioning the triangle directly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle And it's filled with nonsense that nobody believed ever: > It’s not worth waiting to learn from a failure that can’t be recovered from. This…
Comment linking /the-reasons-behind-javascripts-success-eecc6c2aa27
on “The Risk of Fixing Time and Scope in Non-Lean Software Projects”Submitted Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learn Algorithms for Interviews, Forget Them for Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody Cares About Your Programming Experience as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Degradability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Debate of Mockist vs. Classicist TDD Is Like OOP vs. FP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted React Hooks Explained as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learn Algorithms for Interviews, Forget Them for Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Danger of "Modern" Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Danger of "Modern" Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guidelines Don't Scale. Patterns Do as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted the US$4000 JavaScript Interview Question Nobody Could Answer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Made 7 Predictions for the Web for the Next 5y. 7y Later Here’s What Happened as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book Summary: Programming Pearls as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book Summary: Implementing Domain-Driven Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wall of DST Hell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book Summary: Science and Sanity – An Intro to Non-Aristotelian Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Popular Elitism – How your path of learning affects your judgement of other ppl as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Library Internals Do Not Exist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should You Learn Java in 2026? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Front-End Shouldn't Know What Marketing Wants as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Docker, and What It Silently Replaced as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Debate of Mockist vs. Classicist TDD Is Like OOP vs. FP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Paradox of Fancy Tooling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A PDF Parser from the 80s Beats Claude (and They Use It Internally) as a story · 1 points
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