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Hartley Brody
Personal blog · blog.hartleybrody.comprogrammingai
Hartley Brody's personal blog at blog.hartleybrody.com covers programming and ai. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 61 times, most often “How to scrape Amazon.com”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited as see-also reading on sending weather balloons to near-space, in a thread about starting a space company. Other comments touch on NDAs, programmer job titles and engineer vs developer, without judging his posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hartley writes about full stack software engineering and AI-driven software development.
Most-linked posts?
- How to scrape Amazon.com3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-09
- Are You A Hacker, Developer or Engineer? (And Why it Matters)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-06-25
- A Quick Primer on Writing Readable Python Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-23
- A fellow HN'er helped me find the missing weather balloon footage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-05
What Hacker News says?
This needs to be highlighted: Everyone who does anything at all in the realm of business or tech should basically never sign an NDA unless it is already positively guaranteed they are getting something out of it. You might be required to sign an NDA once you have been hired at a W-2 job if the company handles sensitive data. Or if you have already been offered a contract. Event then, make sure it is actually necessa…
Comment linking /wont-sign-nda/
on “The side hustle from hell”Submitted I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit as a story · 279 points
HN discussionThe trend extends to other words. Sometimes I hear Programmers calling themselves Computer Scientists or Computer Engineers [1] [2] [3] when in different cases they are a Developers or a Hacker. Which they get wrong too. You are what you are. of you're acting another role you should state that you're playing that role not that you are. Ex. Computer Scientist, who can fill the role of a Programmer. This discussion ke…
Comment linking /hacker-developer-engineer/
on “Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice”Submitted Google’s Python Lessons are Awesome as a story · 185 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK Location: Cambridge, MA (Across the river from Boston, MA) or Remote 7 years of experience building web apps with whatever stack you use. For my own side-projects I tend to reach for Python (Flask) or Rails for the backend but have also worked with Django, Lua and many a PHP framework. I also work on the client-side/frontend doing Backbone, Angular and some preprocessed work in SASS and Coffeescript, al…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2015)”Submitted My thoughts about Fly.io (so far) and other newish technology I'm getting into as a story · 130 points
HN discussionYes, some kids did do this, but to pick a nit projects like those are usually to "near-space" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_balloon See also: - Lego Shuttle to Space: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bluQ4eOeBwo - How To Send a Weather Balloon into Space: http://blog.hartleybrody.com/in-space/ and http://blog.hartleybrody.com/found-balloon/ - Spanish Soccer Jersey in Space: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2…
Comment linking /found-balloon/
on “I want to start a space company. Now what?”Submitted How HTTPS Stops Attackers: What Every Web Dev Should Know as a story · 119 points
HN discussionThanks for the encouragement! I've been trying to focus on saving money, but lately I've been turning more to alternative sources of income to boost the amount I can tuck away. It's hard as a 22 year old to learn proper spending habits when almost everyone around me has bad ones. I wrote a bit about it here: http://blog.hartleybrody.com/first-million/
Comment linking /first-million/
on “The Real World: A Four Month Retrospective”Submitted Sending a Weather Balloon to Space as a story · 74 points
HN discussionAn excerpt from David Mosher's Presentation "So You Want to be a Front-End Engineer": A hacker can come up with solutions, but maybe they can’t look back after they’ve finished and realize how they came up with the solution. They just kinda poke at things until they get something that works. … At some point, you level up and become a developer and a developer understands best practices. They’ve heard other developer…
Comment linking /hacker-developer-engineer/
on “Ask HN: What's the difference between an engineer and a developer?”Submitted Are You A Hacker, Developer or Engineer? (And Why it Matters) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping for Fun and Profit as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted A fellow HN'er helped me find the missing weather balloon footage as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Growth Hacking: The Tale of a Marketer Who Writes Code as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Startups in 9 Months: Lessons Learned as a Technical Co-Founder as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Mobile Optimized My Website in 5 Minutes as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Full Time Employee’s Guide to Generating Freelance Clients on the Side as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: A Minimum Viable Security Checklist for Web Apps as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Peeling Back the ORM: Demistifying Relational Databases For New Web Developers as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Got a Full Time Job With a Tweet as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Learned to Code in Only 6 Years: And You Can Too as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to scrape Amazon.com as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lightning Fast Data Serialization in Python as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Quick Primer on Writing Readable Python Code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted We've been vibe coding since the Stone Age: Do we still need humans in the loop? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Scrape Amazon: Lessons I Learned While Crawling 1MM+ Product Listings as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of the Server-Less Web Stack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Calling it “Mobile” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Noob to Evangelist: Driving Users Through Your Post Sign Up Funnel as a story · 3 points
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