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Jason Becker
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Jason Becker's personal blog at json.blog covers programming and career. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “On Politics at Work”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Jason Becker's post "On Politics At Work", which argues that "politics at work" can mean either endless workplace debates or concerns about pay, in discussions such as the Basecamp changes.
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Personal blog of Jason Becker
Most-linked posts?
- On Politics at Work2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-27
What Hacker News says?
There's a great blog entry I just read about this, "On Politics At Work". I think the author effectively hits on a real problem with a lot of these discussions. https://json.blog/2021/04/26/on-politics-at.html To some folks, "politics at work" means "endless battle royale political debates among coworkers in a Slack all day long; why wouldn't you be against that? But to others, "politics at work" means "are we payin…
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on “Changes at Basecamp”Submitted On Politics at Work as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Politics at Work as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delimited files are hell– a comparison of methods to read bad files as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mail rules on Fastmail that make my life better (2025) as a story · 1 points
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