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Forrest Brazeal
Personal blog · newsletter.goodtechthings.com · on HN as forrestbrazealprogrammingcareer
Forrest Brazeal writes Good Tech Things, a personal blog at newsletter.goodtechthings.com about programming and career. Since 2022, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 61 times, most often “Knowledge Worker”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Cloud and tech commentary from Forrest Brazeal.
Most-linked posts?
- Knowledge Worker3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-09-18
- This Is What Software Development Looks Like Now3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-19
- The threat to open source comes from within3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-09
- Crimes Against Cloud: An Investigation2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-12-13
- The end of the Everything Cloud2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-07-30
- Notes on Nix2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-20
- Closed as unhelpful: an elegy for Stack Overflow2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-08
- The Death of the Modified Developer2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-08-30
- Why didn't one of the big clouds buy HashiCorp?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-29
- I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-22
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable? as a story · 374 points
HN discussionSubmitted The greatest resume I've ever seen as a story · 91 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case against living in the Bay Area, for ambitious tech people as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted The threat to open source comes from within as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google is a giant squid wearing Mickey Mouse gloves as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted The end of the Everything Cloud as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Nix as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case against living in the Bay Area, for ambitious tech people as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted This Is What Software Development Looks Like Now as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Closed as unhelpful: an elegy for Stack Overflow as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Threat to Open Source Comes from Corporate Manipulation as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The threat to open source comes from within as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Nix as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of the Everything Cloud as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is there such a thing as good gatekeeping? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wait, is cloud bad? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harsh truths to save you from ChatGPT psychosis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Knowledge Worker as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of the Modified Developer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Software Development Looks Like Now as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why didn't one of the big clouds buy HashiCorp? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leaving Google Cloud as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted When programming is gone, will we like what’s left? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harsh truths to save you from ChatGPT psychosis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The death of the [modified] developer (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What hath AWS wrought? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Hath AWS Wrought? as a story · 2 points
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