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Kickin' the Darkness
Personal blog · blog.kickin-the-darkness.comprogrammingculture
Kickin' the Darkness is a personal blog at blog.kickin-the-darkness.com about programming and culture. Since 2007, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Confessions of a terrible programmer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread titled "I Did a Bad Job" as a "confessions" post about the author's programming mistakes. The only comment is a joking self-description that cites the post.
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?
- Confessions of a terrible programmer3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2007-12-11
What Hacker News says?
I'm a terrible programmer http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-t... !
Comment linking /2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-programmer.html
on “"I Did a Bad Job"”Submitted Confessions of a terrible programmer as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted Confessions of a Terrible Programmer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Story on a Concurrency Bug in a Missile Launch System (2007) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The "Any Competent Programmer" BS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defensive programming: Fortran, Ada, C++, Java,?? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion