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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.

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61mentions?
13HN people?
2022–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 40 in 2024

Cloud and tech commentary from Forrest Brazeal.

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forrestbrazeal · 3,972 karma · member since 2016

https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Knowledge Worker
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-09-18
  2. This Is What Software Development Looks Like Now
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-19
  3. The threat to open source comes from within
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-09
  4. Crimes Against Cloud: An Investigation
    2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-12-13
  5. The end of the Everything Cloud
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-07-30
  6. Notes on Nix
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-20
  7. Closed as unhelpful: an elegy for Stack Overflow
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-08
  8. The Death of the Modified Developer
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-08-30
  9. Why didn't one of the big clouds buy HashiCorp?
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-29
  10. I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable? as a story · 374 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted The greatest resume I've ever seen as a story · 91 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering as a story · 42 points

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  4. Submitted The case against living in the Bay Area, for ambitious tech people as a story · 34 points

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  5. Submitted I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering as a story · 19 points

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  6. Submitted The threat to open source comes from within as a story · 15 points

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  7. Submitted Google is a giant squid wearing Mickey Mouse gloves as a story · 15 points

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  8. Submitted I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering as a story · 10 points

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  9. Submitted The end of the Everything Cloud as a story · 10 points

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  10. Submitted Notes on Nix as a story · 9 points

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  11. Submitted The case against living in the Bay Area, for ambitious tech people as a story · 8 points

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  12. Submitted This Is What Software Development Looks Like Now as a story · 6 points

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  13. Submitted Closed as unhelpful: an elegy for Stack Overflow as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted The Threat to Open Source Comes from Corporate Manipulation as a story · 6 points

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  15. Submitted The threat to open source comes from within as a story · 6 points

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  16. Submitted Notes on Nix as a story · 4 points

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  17. Submitted The End of the Everything Cloud as a story · 4 points

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  18. Submitted Is there such a thing as good gatekeeping? as a story · 4 points

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  19. Submitted Wait, is cloud bad? as a story · 4 points

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  20. Submitted Harsh truths to save you from ChatGPT psychosis as a story · 3 points

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  21. Submitted Knowledge Worker as a story · 3 points

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  22. Submitted The Death of the Modified Developer as a story · 3 points

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  23. Submitted What Software Development Looks Like Now as a story · 3 points

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  24. Submitted Why didn't one of the big clouds buy HashiCorp? as a story · 3 points

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  25. Submitted Leaving Google Cloud as a story · 3 points

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  26. Submitted When programming is gone, will we like what’s left? as a story · 3 points

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  27. Submitted Harsh truths to save you from ChatGPT psychosis as a story · 2 points

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  28. Submitted The death of the [modified] developer (2024) as a story · 2 points

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  29. Submitted What hath AWS wrought? as a story · 2 points

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  30. Submitted What Hath AWS Wrought? as a story · 2 points

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