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Greg Baugues
Personal blog · baugues.com · on HN as gregorymichaelcareerprogramming
Greg Baugues's personal blog at baugues.com covers career and programming. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Cruise”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-03, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Greg Baugues's blog has essays on parenting and play, teaching his young child to code, and a TRS-80 resource page. HN readers link it for these pieces and the older "Autoworkers of our generation" essay.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dad, coder, photographer.
Most-linked posts?
- Cruise2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-15
- What GitHub Trends Tell Us About Ruby's Future2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-25
- Why and How I Get Up at 4:302 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-11
What Hacker News says?
Yes! We just moved out of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and my biggest lament was losing this type of community. Wrote about it here: https://baugues.com/last-days-nyc
Comment linking /last-days-nyc
on “The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community”Submitted Teaching our five year old to code by cheating as a story · 123 points
HN discussionI'm a developer who has Type 2 Bipolar and ADHD, and I wrote a bit about finding a mental health professional here: http://baugues.com/find-a-psych It's one of the more frustrating bits of the getting better process.
Comment linking /find-a-psych
on “Ask HN: How to find a mental health professional?”Submitted Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015) as a story · 66 points
HN discussionYou (or your friend) might appreciate this piece, by Greg Baugues, on delayed bonding: http://baugues.com/bonding
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on “What Dads' Play Does for Kids”Submitted Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 as a story · 64 points
HN discussionGreg from Twilio here. I love Southwest[1] and have wanted to do something like this forever. Would you be up for sharing the source? Can drop me a note at gb@twilio.com. [1]: http://baugues.com/southwest
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on “How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio”Submitted Last Days in NYC as a story · 21 points
HN discussionFor anyone looking to switch airlines amidst all the news lately, I can't recommend Southwest more highly. Flew them out of Chicago for business the last two years -- their rewards, no-fee rebooking, etc. literally changed our lives. Wrote a bit about it here: http://baugues.com/southwest
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on “Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes”Submitted Digital practice lets people get better faster. A lot faster as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI'm glad Greg Baugues started blogging again. I discovered his blog all the way back in 2013 with one of my favorite articles of his, "Autoworkers of our generation" [1] and I've been reading his blog religiously until he stopped writing circa 2017. Glad to discover he got back to writing recently. [1] https://baugues.com/autoworkers/
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on “Teaching our five year old to code by cheating”Submitted Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio as a story · 7 points
HN discussionLike many commenters here, lifelong night owl, have two kids that have forced a schedule shift. For a while I found that getting up stupid early worked better than getting up sort of early. Wrote about it here: https://baugues.com/430
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on “Ask HN: What do you do to jump start your brain in the morning?”Submitted Developer Evangelism and Beating Burnout as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI felt the same way before having kids. We live in Brooklyn, which offers Pre-K for all, and we decided to try for it if for no other reason than free daycare. We had a great experience in Pre-K, our daughter learned a lot, made a bunch of friends, and we all gained a community. We had the same experience in Kindergarten before Covid hit. We unenrolled her for first grade, homeschooled instead of doing the school's…
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on “For a second straight year, school enrollment is dropping”Submitted Cruise as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFirst off, I'm so sorry that you're going through this. Please know that you are very much not alone. And yes, seeing a professional is the best route. Check out http://osmihelp.org . Great group of folks and lots of resources there. I also gave a talk on this a while back: http://baugues.com/depression
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on “Ask HN: I'm depressed, what should I do?”Submitted The first thousand miles on our cargo e-bike as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI fell down a TRS-80 hole a few months back, and really enjoyed this site: https://www.baugues.com/trs-80/
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on “Trs80gp – A TRS-80 Emulator”Submitted What GitHub Trends Tell Us About Ruby's Future as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI’ve never spent money so quickly. https://baugues.com/trs-80
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on “Electronic Tiny TRS-80 Model III”Submitted Don't take questions from the stage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI is teaching my nine year daughter old to code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delayed Bonding (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reluctantly homeschooling during Covid-19 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Autoworkers of our generation (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cruise as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 21 Years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Opportunities in Mental Healthcare as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 25 Hour Day as a story · 1 points
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