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Henry's Zoo
Personal blog · henryzoo.comprogrammingphilosophy
Henry's Zoo is a personal blog at henryzoo.com about programming and philosophy. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Henry's Zoo for its writing on open source, including a post about maintainers and closed issues that keep getting bumped, and a post on what open-source stewardship involves.
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.
Thinking through and building tools that work with us, not for us.
What Hacker News says?
Location: Atlanta/Alpharetta | Full-time Remote: No Willing to relocate: Open to bay area Technologies: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Node, d3 Resume: http://henryzoo.com Github: https://github.com/eltacodeldiablo Email: henry.z@gatech.edu New grad looking primarily for a front-end dev position. Interested in doing UI development, visualization, games but open to learning new technologies.
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)”Submitted Living Out in Faith as a story · 36 points
HN discussionYou can learn about a maintainer's experience with closed issues that keep being bumped here: https://www.henryzoo.com/an-issue-with-issues/ Even though I'm maintaining Lock Threads [1], I sometimes shake my head when I come across a closed issue that was locked by it, but I also have to admit that all I want is to ask a question quickly and get the information I need, without considering how my shortcuts affect mai…
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on “Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects”Submitted The Limits and “Good” of Public Goods as a story · 22 points
HN discussionThere's also a question of - what's the job description? Henry makes it clear in a March 2018 blogpost that he doesn't see it as a primarily coding job, and his Twitter bio describes him as 'steward', not 'developer'. https://www.henryzoo.com/in-pursuit-of-open-source-part-1/ https://twitter.com/left_pad So, why is he being taken to task on only quantity of code as a measure?
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on “Babel has no money because someone took a $130K salary and didn't work”Submitted In Pursuit of Open Source as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Issue with Issues as a story · 1 points
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