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J-P Stacey
Personal blog · jpstacey.info/blogprogrammingculture
J-P Stacey's personal blog at jpstacey.info covers programming and culture. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “How to construct a web developer in twelve months”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link J-P Stacey's 'How to' guides on learning to think about and write code, with references to other resources. One commenter found them helpful.
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 construct a web developer in twelve months2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-16
What Hacker News says?
I wouldn't say it's too late. As with any adoption of new thought processes, you'll face a few challenges in overcoming conflicting ways of thinking if any, but it is definitely doable. Here are a few "How to" guides with references to other resources that I've found helpful from my time scavenging hacker news: http://www.jpstacey.info/blog/2011/03/13/how-construct-web-d... http://www.silvertreksystems.com/checklist…
Comment linking /blog/2011/03/13/how-construct-web-developer-twelve-months
on “Is it too late to learn to think/write code?”Submitted How to construct a web developer in twelve months as a story · 118 points
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