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Gordon Cassie
Personal blog · gordonc.bearblog.devprogrammingstartups
Gordon Cassie writes Thoughts on Software, a personal blog at gordonc.bearblog.dev about programming and startups. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “More DRY Talk: Responding to 450 Hacker News Comments”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked from a thread on whether DRY is an overrated programming principle, the blog is a personal site with programming posts. The one comment quotes the homepage and questions the author's authority rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hi, my name is Gordon Cassie. I am a corporate lawyer turned software developer. In 2013, I founded Closing Folders with a friend from law school. Our mi...
Most-linked posts?
- More DRY Talk: Responding to 450 Hacker News Comments2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-13
What Hacker News says?
>Argument by Authority may be a fallacy, but it is significantly more persuasive than other arguments. I looked at https://gordonc.bearblog.dev/ - I don't know why I would think this guy was any more of an authority on what was important than I am. So I'm not sure if anyone who thinks they're a programming genius would even care.
Comment linking /
on “DRY is an over-rated programming principle?”Submitted DRY is an over-rated programming principle? as a story · 599 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimum Stakeholder Businesses as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted More DRY Talk: Responding to 450 Hacker News Comments as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Follow up on that DRY post from last week as a story · 1 points
HN discussion