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Gus Mueller
Personal blog · gusmueller.com/blogprogrammingstartupscareer
Gus Mueller writes The Shape of Everything, a personal blog at gusmueller.com about programming, startups and career. Since 2007, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “How to Become an Independent Programmer in Just 1068 Days (2005)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link a 2008 post titled 'Thank you, Adobe Reader 9', which thanks Adobe for the Reader 9 release. The only comment is a bare link framed as one more satisfied customer.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Become an Independent Programmer in Just 1068 Days (2005)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-05-17
What Hacker News says?
another satisfied customer: http://gusmueller.com/blog/archives/2008/07/adobe_reader_9_i...
Comment linking /blog/archives/2008/07/adobe_reader_9_is_out!.html
on “Thank you, Adobe Reader 9”Submitted How to Become an Independent Programmer in Just 1068 Days (2005) as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to become an independent programmer in just 1068 days as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to become an independent programmer in just 1068 days as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Gus Mueller does Beta Testing for his Mac software as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
