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Jeff Wofford

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Jeff Wofford writes Holy Ghost Stories, a personal blog at jeffwofford.com about programming and philosophy. Since 2010, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Programmers are Trees”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-12, and you can follow it by feed.

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51mentions?
13HN people?
2010–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 14 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Jeff Wofford's posts for his personal job-search story and his about page, and for a post on programmers' differing styles. The comments do not judge the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Programmers are Trees
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-04-25
  2. The Sorry State of Game Portability
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-24
  3. When the job search becomes impossible
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-12
  4. Better way to debug:Keep Taking Steps Forward
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. mcswell · 2025-09-16
    His story here https://www.jeffwofford.com/wp/?p=2227 probably tells you a lot about him.

    Comment linking /wp/?p=2227

    on “When the job search becomes impossible”
  2. putzdown · 2015-01-13

    Submitted The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer as a story · 471 points

    HN discussion
  3. 3D30497420 · 2025-09-16
    His about page: https://www.jeffwofford.com/?page_id=464

    Comment linking /?page_id=464

    on “When the job search becomes impossible”
  4. pertinhower · 2025-09-16

    Submitted When the job search becomes impossible as a story · 283 points

    HN discussion
  5. putzdown · 2014-08-27
    These kinds of rants sadden me. They purport to outline absolute, logically inviolable reasons that a given language is "bad". What they really do is express the writer's frustration, an emotional reaction that probably emerged from working with language attributes and features that he in some cases doesn't understand well or in other cases simply doesn't prefer. C++ works beautifully for millions of programmers who…

    Comment linking /?p=915

    on “C++11 FQA anyone?”
  6. codebungl · 2011-10-15

    Submitted A Programmer’s Greatest Enemy as a story · 192 points

    HN discussion
  7. putzdown · 2015-01-22
    Live and let live, people. [Programmers are trees.]( http://www.jeffwofford.com/?p=915 )

    Comment linking /?p=915

    on “A Slightly Skeptical View on Object-Oriented Programming (2001)”
  8. J3L2404 · 2011-10-14

    Submitted How Siri Works as a story · 152 points

    HN discussion
  9. pertinhower · 2013-08-28

    Submitted What Programming a Game in 48 Hours Taught Me About Programming Games as a story · 146 points

    HN discussion
  10. pertinhower · 2013-03-22

    Submitted When Game Development Stinks as a story · 103 points

    HN discussion
  11. pertinhower · 2012-10-24

    Submitted The Sorry State of C++ Portability as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  12. pertinhower · 2012-06-21

    Submitted Crush the Castle developer's response to IGN's "In Defense of Game Clones" as a story · 52 points

    HN discussion
  13. codebungl · 2011-10-17

    Submitted Why Won’t Developers Listen to Your Game Idea? as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  14. pertinhower · 2012-05-17

    Submitted Diablo 4 to Feature LocalServer Technology as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  15. pertinhower · 2015-03-04

    Submitted Why Unreal, Unity, and Source Are Going Free as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  16. nimaj · 2010-01-15

    Submitted Never in a Hundred Million Years Will You Ever Sell Your Game Idea to a Company as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  17. putzdown · 2014-12-17

    Submitted The rise and fall of the lone game developer as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  18. pertinhower · 2013-05-21

    Submitted Xbox : Xbox One :: Atari 800 : Atari 800 XL as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  19. Apocryphon · 2011-10-16

    Submitted Four Kinds of Stuck as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  20. putzdown · 2025-09-12

    Submitted When the job search becomes impossible: three phases of burnout as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  21. simonhughes22 · 2015-01-14

    Submitted C.S. Lewis' Letter to Tolkien Upon Reading the Lord of the Rings as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. pertinhower · 2013-06-10

    Submitted A Conversation between America and Her Government as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. pertinhower · 2012-10-24

    Submitted The Sorry State of Game Portability as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. putzdown · 2025-10-14

    Submitted Will I Have Enough? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. putzdown · 2025-08-18

    Submitted A book that is releasing itself in sync with the events of the story as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. putzdown · 2024-05-24

    Submitted First- and Second-Order Pain as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. dsego · 2014-11-04

    Submitted The Sorry State of Game Portability (2012) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. pertinhower · 2013-08-27

    Submitted The Ludum Dare Experience: The Melancholy Middle as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. pertinhower · 2013-08-21

    Submitted God, Consciousness, and Game Programming as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. pertinhower · 2013-03-22

    Submitted SimCity to License Blizzard's LocalServer Technology as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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