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Julie Pagano
Personal blog · juliepagano.com/blogprogrammingculturecareer
Julie Pagano's personal blog at juliepagano.com covers programming, culture and career. Since 2014, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Julie Pagano – So You Want to Be an Ally”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Julie Pagano's posts on tech culture, feminism in tech, and how allies can help marginalized people in the industry, including a primer on learning how to be helpful.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The home of Julie Pagano.
Most-linked posts?
- Julie Pagano – So You Want to Be an Ally3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-11-16
- Feminism in Tech2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-27
What Hacker News says?
Thank you for thinking about this. It's a very worthy topic for thought. If you'd care to link the thread you mention, I'm sure others would like to help. BTW, a very good primer on learning how to be helpful is http://juliepagano.com/blog/2014/05/10/so-you-want-to-be-an-...
Comment linking /blog/2014/05/10/so-you-want-to-be-an-ally/
on “This Industry is Fucked”Submitted JavaScript debugging for beginners as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI don't agree with this entire post, but here's a summary of the initial conversation: http://juliepagano.com/blog/2014/07/15/when-twitter-fails-ma...
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/15/when-twitter-fails-math-and-programming-edition/
on “Programming is not math?”Submitted When Twitter Fails: Math and Programming Edition as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThis wonderful article by Julie Pagano might be of interest to you! http://juliepagano.com/blog/2014/05/03/ally-smells-fear-of-s...
Comment linking /blog/2014/05/03/ally-smells-fear-of-speaking/
on “An open letter on feminism in tech”Submitted Mid-Career Survival for People Who Don't Want to Be an Attrition Statistic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's lots of lit on how to help: http://juliepagano.com/blog/2014/05/10/so-you-want-to-be-an-... Also just look up Model View Culture's writers: https://modelviewculture.com/ (Also, they recently published a handy guide on startups: https://model-view-culture.myshopify.com/products/your-start... )
Comment linking /blog/2014/05/10/so-you-want-to-be-an-ally/
on “Still Here, Part 1: A Memoir”Submitted Feminism in Tech as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDanilo, I loved the article & thought it was much needed. Agreed that it's not the job of the marginalized to educate oppressors. Agreed that it's frustrating and exhausting for anyone to take on the task of educating others, and that your writing is an attempt at making others aware of the problems that exist. I agree that BrandonM's classification of your article as "cherry picking" demonstrates a lack of awarenes…
Comment linking /blog/2013/11/02/101-off-limits/
on “Y Combinator and the Negative Externalities of Hackernews”Submitted Results of year-long reverse job post experiment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diversity for Sale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Julie Pagano – So You Want to Be an Ally as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life and Times of a Tech Feminist Killjoy: Can’t Go Back and No End in Sight as a story · 1 points
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