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Kevin London

Personal blog · kevinlondon.com · on HN as Kaedonprogrammingcareer

Kevin London's personal blog at kevinlondon.com covers programming and career. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2015

I write about engineering craft, career growth, and learning to get out of my own way.

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Kaedon · 541 karma · member since 2011

I'm a Software Engineer and enjoy working with Python. I give talks sometimes. Twitter: @kevin_london Blog: https://www.kevinlondon.com

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Listen to software conference talks! It's true that some of the more technical ones will not translate as they require too much concentration. Ideally, you can find some that are more conceptual or do not rely directly upon watching the slides. I posted a few of my favorites from last year here: https://www.kevinlondon.com/2015/09/10/10-software-talks-to-... I, too, generally dislike software podcasts in the car. Fo…

    Comment linking /2015/09/10/10-software-talks-to-listen-to.html

    on “Ask HN: As a developer, how can I take advantage of time spent driving to work?”
  2. Submitted Code Review Best Practices as a story · 221 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://www.kevinlondon.com/ I write most commonly about experiences in big tech, code reviews, and navigating hiring processes

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  4. Submitted DevOps from Scratch, Part 1: Vagrant and Ansible as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Load testing at scale and lessons learned as a story · 37 points

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  6. Submitted Getting unstuck as a story · 20 points

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  7. Submitted Code Review Best Practices as a story · 5 points

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  8. Submitted How to Land the Right Tech Job for You as a story · 4 points

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  9. Submitted The Sunglasses Scam as a story · 4 points

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  10. Submitted Wider, Not Faster as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted I made a game with AI and I don't know how to feel about it as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted The Two Trains and Other Refactoring Analogies as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted Dangerous Python Functions: Part 2 as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted Impostor Syndrome and Me as a story · 3 points

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  15. Submitted You can use AI every day and still not get better as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted The AI Prisoner's Dilemma as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Why I submitted my first CPython patch as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Burning the 3:40 AM Window as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Parachuting In as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Getting out of my own way: Lessons from becoming a Staff Engineer as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Know where you're going (and be open to change) as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Jekyll to Astro: an AI-assisted migration as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Backfill Considerations as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted The Princess and the Pea as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Don't Just Bake Me a Cake as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted How to Prepare for Talks as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Answers to Django Security Questions as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Software Talks to Listen to in the Car as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Dangerous Python Functions, Part 1 as a story · 1 points

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