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Jason Rudolph
Personal blog · jasonrudolph.com/blogprogrammingcareer
Jason Rudolph's personal blog at jasonrudolph.com covers programming and career. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “How to Level Up as a Developer”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on becoming a better developer, including a 2015 rebuttal to a 2011 post on gaining programming experiences. Commenters link them mainly as the original context for an earlier discussion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jason Rudolph - Programmer, consultant, speaker, and author specializing in Ruby and Rails
Most-linked posts?
- How to Level Up as a Developer4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-08-09
- /blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-04-18
- ClojureScript: Things That Might Worry You, but Shouldn't (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-11
What Hacker News says?
This really isn't understandable without the context of the article this one is a rebuttal of ( http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievem... ), and specifically this "method" that the author of the first article uses the be a good developer: 1. Identify the experiences that advance a person as a developer. 2. Select a particular experience to pursue. 3. Pursue that experience to completion. (Achie…
Comment linking /blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/
on “On becoming a better developer (2015)”Submitted How to Level Up as a Developer as a story · 386 points
HN discussionI too was puzzled about what this is in response to. Midway through the comments I found a link to the premise article: http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievem... It's responding to an article saying the way to improve as a developer is to have more "experiences". To summarize briefly, some examples from the article are to write an application in a bunch of different programming paradigms. Write…
Comment linking /blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/
on “On becoming a better developer (2015)”Submitted ClojureScript: Things That Might Worry You, but Shouldn't (2012) as a story · 96 points
HN discussionThis seems to be the original discussion. http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievem...
Comment linking /blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/
on “Ask HN: Thoughts on Rich Hickey's advice on becoming a better developer?”Submitted Recent git features as a story · 29 points
HN discussionThis is what he's replying to: http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievem...
Comment linking /blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/
on “Becoming a better developer (2014)”Submitted ClojureScript: 4 Things That Might Worry You, but Shouldn't as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAs many people have said, no, you're not too old to get started. And despite what some people might say, a multi-year degree program, with a decent GPA, is a great way of showing employers that you're a decent potential candidate. That said, software engineering is one of the fields you can get employment without a degree, provided you can 'show your work'. The hard part is building up your skills in a way that can…
Comment linking /blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/
on “Ask HN: Is 30 too old to start in software engineering or CS?”Submitted Git Tip: How to "Merge" Specific Files from Another Branch as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 Resources for getting up to speed on Rails 2.1 as a story · 1 points
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