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Kerrick Long
Personal blog · kerrick.blog · on HN as Kerrickprogrammingwritingcareer
Kerrick Long's personal blog at kerrick.blog covers programming, writing and career. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Exploring the Open/Closed Principle with Polymorphism and Metaprogramming”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Articles Longer, more in-depth pieces of writing. Quick Posts Shorter, social-media style posts.
Most-linked posts?
- Exploring the Open/Closed Principle with Polymorphism and Metaprogramming3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-16
- Ship Software That Does Nothing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-13
What Hacker News says?
https://kerrick.blog
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship as a story · 378 points
HN discussion> However, it is important to ask if you want to stop investing in your own skills because of a speculative prediction made by an AI researcher or tech CEO. I don't think these are exclusive. Almost a year ago, I wrote a blog post about this [0]. I spent the time since then both learning better software design and learning to vibe code. I've worked through Domain-Driven Design Distilled , Domain-Driven Design , Impl…
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on “Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding”Submitted Learning C# and .NET after two decades of programming as a story · 64 points
HN discussionI recognized the need for this recently and started by documenting one [1]... then I dropped the ball because I, too, spent my winter holiday engrossed in agentic development. (Instead of documenting patterns.) I'm glad somebody kept writing! [1]: https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/use-ai-to-stand-in-for-a-...
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on “The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns”Submitted Did 37Signals Just Accidentally Make Writebook Open Source? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ship Software That Does Nothing as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Started Reading 25 C#/.NET Books. Here Are the 2 I'll Finish ASAP as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Vibe Coded a WordPress Plugin and Shipped It to Production as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ship Software That Does Nothing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 30,656 Pages of Books About the C# and .NET Ecosystem as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emily Bache on Ward Cunningham's Fearless Refactoring as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kerrick's Wager: On the Future of Manual Programming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted "I am Antigravity. I am ready. Go." as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring the Open/Closed Principle with Polymorphism and Metaprogramming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Power User Guide for Google Antigravity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use AI to Stand in for a Domain Expert as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A New Best Practice for User Friendly 404 Page Design? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Books Should I Read to Learn ASP.NET Core and Blazor? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fizz Buzz, Object-Oriented Edition: Exploring the Open/Closed Principle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fizz Buzz, Object-Oriented Edition as a story · 1 points
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