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Jessi Mekirk
Personal blog · jessimekirk.com/blog · on HN as LifeIsBioprogrammingcareer
Jessi Mekirk writes My Life in Bio, a personal blog at jessimekirk.com about programming and career. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Famous HNers and their sites”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jessi Mekirk's posts analysing Hacker News statistics, including a post on HN users' links. The comments are a bare link and a pointer to other HN stats posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My personal blog for recording things I’ve done, writing down my thoughts on miscellaneous topics, staying in touch with the internet.
Most-linked posts?
- Famous HNers and their sites3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-31
What Hacker News says?
I love jupyter notebooks. Without them, I wouldn’t have been half as productive as I was during my PhD. Here’s a post I wrote just a few weeks ago describing some of the conventions that I established for myself over the course of 5 years: https://jessimekirk.com/blog/notebook_rules/ I suspect that a lot of the conventions I describe help mitigate problems described here, some of which should be strictly or optional…
Comment linking /blog/notebook_rules/
on “What’s wrong with computational notebooks?”Submitted Famous HNers and their sites as a story · 335 points
HN discussionI've found that people have wildly different definitions of "systems engineering", but this one is lovely. And also, very close to my own. ;) https://jessimekirk.com/blog/whats_a_systems_engineer/
Comment linking /blog/whats_a_systems_engineer/
on “Systems Engineering, or "why james gets paid"”Submitted Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it so hard? as a story · 139 points
HN discussionhttps://jrock.us/ https://jgc.org/ http://kaledavis.com/ https://aegir.sexy/ https://www.gwern.net/ https://jacquesmattheij.com/ https://danwin.com/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/ https://www.magic.do/ https://edweissman.com/ https://jakeseliger.com/ http://www.fogus.me/ https://www.stavros.io/ https://jasonlefkowitz.net/ https://minimaxir.com/ https://www.robinwhittleton.com/ https://ciexinc.com/ https://rongarret.info…
Comment linking /blog/hn_users_links/
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite personal sites?”Submitted Interview Frustrations as a story · 131 points
HN discussionThis was the latest post about HN stats but there are many others https://jessimekirk.com/blog/hn_users_links/
Comment linking /blog/hn_users_links/
on “Ask HN: Is somewhere out there some HN statistics?”Submitted 20 Things I learned in my 20s as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get Your First Git Contribution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChuckSort as a story · 2 points
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