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Jos Visser
Personal blog · josvisser.substack.comcareerprogramming
Jos Visser writes Wednesday Wisdom, a personal blog at josvisser.substack.com about career and programming. Since 2023, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “It's a knowledge problem Or is it?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jos Visser's Substack for posts on people not learning their tools (Git, a VSCode over RDP story) and on financial literacy versus knowledge. Comments discuss the topics without judging the writing.
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.
Things that are on my mind when I think about work.
Most-linked posts?
- It's a knowledge problem Or is it?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-12
- You Can't Teach Caring2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-26
- Why Python Is Amazing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-10
What Hacker News says?
As you highlight with the "VSCode over RDP" story later on the post, it doesn't stop on Git. Some people just don't care about learning their tools. RTFM? Hell no. There is no care for the "craft". Once they learn the very basic for their current need, they're done with it. We can also observe this behavior during coding, once "it works", they just push all changes and move forward to the next thing. No second thoug…
Comment linking /p/you-cant-teach-caring
on “I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare others the pain”Submitted It's a knowledge problem Or is it? as a story · 53 points
HN discussion> We’re making the same mistake with money that we once made with abstinence-only sex education: pretending that pure knowledge will triumph over emotion, peer pressure, and real-world temptations. Spoiler alert: it won’t. Funny things, couple weeks ago, the most upvoted links was 'its a knowledge proble or is it' https://josvisser.substack.com/p/its-a-knowledge-problem-or-...
Comment linking /p/its-a-knowledge-problem-or-is-it
on “Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy”Submitted Why Python Is Terrible as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Senior engineers: Please prep for interviews as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things you can learn from Microsoft as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Can't Teach Caring as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Burdens of Ownership as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted All Hail to the Almighty Spreadsheet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Senior engineers who don't code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Python Is Amazing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten things not to worry about regarding oncall as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unhappy the team that needs heroes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The loneliness of the long distance runbook as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Python Is Amazing as a story · 1 points
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