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Herman Schaaf
Personal blog · ironzebra.comprogramming
Herman Schaaf's personal blog at ironzebra.com covers programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one HN comment links this blog, in a thread on self-doubt about coding. The commenter gives advice to code daily and cites a friend's blog post, with no judgment of the writing itself.
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.
Mostly software, books and lists of three things
What Hacker News says?
My advice is to code more. You will get more accustomed to the thought process that goes into writing code, more accustomed to your editor, and more comfortable with coding overall. One thing that I did that helped me code more was challenge myself to code every day. Using GitHub helps because you can check your streak. My friend and I did this for about 2 months and we felt very productive. This is his blog post ab…
Comment linking /post/105/abc-always-be-coding
on “Ask HN: Self-doubt, inferiority complex is killing me. How do I fix that?”Submitted I rewrote my blog in Go as a story · 132 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I learnt doing Facebook Hacker Cup in Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I learnt doing Facebook Hacker Cup in Go as a story · 2 points
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