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Josh Can Help
Personal blog · joshcanhelp.com · on HN as joshcanhelpprogrammingproductivity
Josh Can Help is a personal blog at joshcanhelp.com about programming and productivity. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Imagining a personal data pipeline”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as an introduction to testable documentation, including a spike that checks code and doc snippets against a README. One commenter found the intro post and the docco spike interesting.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Imagining a personal data pipeline2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-31
What Hacker News says?
I did too! http://www.joshcanhelp.com/ideas-1/
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on “I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas”Submitted Goodbye Auth0 as a story · 286 points
HN discussionLocation: Bainbridge Island, WA (near Seattle) Remote: Yes, 1-day hybrid in Seattle OK Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript/JavaScript, OAuth and OpenID Connect, SQL dialects, PHP Resume: https://www.joshcanhelp.com/hire-me/ (summary of what I'm looking for and what I can do) https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshcanhelp/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i7YQNdmiomXHA4fNJyGitEti... (95% complete) Email: jos…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)”Submitted We need your beginner’s mind as a story · 141 points
HN discussion> On a personal level, do not think in failures or successes. Think in learning and level gains. I wanted to include that in my post but I didn't want it to get too long. This is so critical, IMHO. When I truly internalized this I felt like I had unlocked some secret mode in life. I had heard it over and over but it also sounded like a way to make yourself feel better. I know better now! I wrote about this as well […
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on “We need your beginner’s mind”Submitted Imagining a personal data pipeline as a story · 122 points
HN discussionOh, this is really fantastic, I'm going to check it out! Does you end up with an archive of the data that's being queried? In case we might be a good fit ... https://www.joshcanhelp.com/hire-me/
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on “Imagining a personal data pipeline”Submitted Show HN: I made an Open Source Personal Data Pipeline as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI can't recommend Eleventy enough! https://www.11ty.dev I converted my WordPress blog to Eleventy 4 years ago and never looked back, it's been delightful! https://www.joshcanhelp.com/taking-wordpress-to-eleventy/
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on “Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform”Submitted Building a CLI from scratch with TypeScript and oclif as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI have found Eleventy lovely to use after being one WordPress for a decade. It can be as simple as you need it to be and grows with you. I’ve been able to accomplish everything I need with it. Currently replying from GitHub to Netlify automatically but could just as easily build locally and rsync or FTP somewhere. https://www.joshcanhelp.com/taking-wordpress-to-eleventy/
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on “Ask HN: How to build a light weight personal blog?”Submitted How I Focus Now as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI switched from WordPress to Eleventy in 2020 and never looked back. https://www.joshcanhelp.com/taking-wordpress-to-eleventy/ I currently host on Netlify because it’s free but you could easily sync the generated HTML files to a box you manage.
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on “Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?”Submitted My rollercoaster of thoughts and feelings on AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI also find your introductory post to the subject ( https://www.joshcanhelp.com/testable-documentation-intro/ ) really neat ! The docco spike is quite cool, sounds a bit like inlined Javadoc on steroid to me, as you mention in your final thoughts it could look great for direct source code documentation. Not sure about the immediate readability with all these comments though, I think there is a hard balance to find b…
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on “Show HN: Keep code and doc snippets in sync by checking your README”Submitted How to conduct a great technical interview as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis looks great so far and glad to see others tackling this tough problem! I've spent a lot of my time writing documentation and example code and, while I love the process, it's very hard to keep it all up-to-date. I wrote up a spike I tried a while back that worked well for what I needed it for: https://www.joshcanhelp.com/testable-documentation-spike-1/
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on “Show HN: Keep code and doc snippets in sync by checking your README”Submitted Engineering Velocity from the Bottom Up as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.joshcanhelp.com/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted WordPress Unit Testing Techniques (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI had none of that anxiety when my mom had a stroke last year. She survived but lost a lot of her capacity to speak and will to live. It’s been devastating but I’ve had a chance to spend time with her and tell her things I never thought I needed to say. If I had to give some advice, I would say the most important thing to do now is to make sure that they are prepared for the administrative side of major health event…
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on “‘Preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good life’”