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Geoff's Blog
Personal blog · opinionatedgeek.com/Blogprogramming
Geoff's Blog is a personal blog at opinionatedgeek.com about programming. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Geoff's Blog for a reflection on the book Zero Bugs and Program Faster and for a base64 decoding code-breaking contest post. One commenter suggests starting with the base64 decoder page.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Zero Bugs and Program Faster, I'd say. Here's a brief reflection: https://www.opinionatedgeek.com/Blog/2016/11/23/zero-bugs-an...
Comment linking /Blog/2016/11/23/zero-bugs-and-program-faster-by-kate-thompson
on “Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?”Submitted Microsoft/.Net Foundation added telemetry to the dotnet command line last year as a story · 142 points
HN discussionI would start here: http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/base64decode/
Comment linking /dotnet/tools/base64decode/
on “I was forced to write a blog post. So I made a code breaking contest.”