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John Breen

Personal blog · breen.tech/postprogrammingculture

John Breen's personal blog at breen.tech covers programming and culture. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “On Basecamp”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked only as bare links in a thread on Basecamp employee buyouts, alongside an open letter to Basecamp's leaders. The comments do not say anything about the writing itself.

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.

Welcome to my website

Most-linked posts?

  1. On Basecamp
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://janeyang.org/2021/04/27/an-open-letter-to-jason-and-... https://breen.tech/post/cringe-camp/

    Comment linking /post/cringe-camp/

    on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””
  2. Submitted But Await, There's More (2020) as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted On Basecamp as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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