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Kristian Glass
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Kristian Glass writes Do I Smell Burning?, a personal blog at blog.doismellburning.co.uk about programming and career. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Django: An Unofficial Opinionated FAQ”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-20, 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 list of posts on "naked pings", the habit of sending a bare "Hi" and waiting for a reply before stating the actual request. The one comment is only a set of links, with no judgement of the writing.
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.
I write. I try to make sure the good stuff ends up here.
Most-linked posts?
- Django: An Unofficial Opinionated FAQ2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-13
What Hacker News says?
Otherwise known as a "naked ping" and discussed in many places before: - https://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2014/02/20/naked-pings/ - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_naked_pings - https://blog.doismellburning.co.uk/nobody-likes-naked-pings/ - https://www.die-welt.net/2020/06/naked-pings-2020/
Comment linking /nobody-likes-naked-pings/
on “Lesson: Stop saying “Hi” and waiting for a response”Submitted Cover Letters: Always Send One as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Django: An Unofficial Opinionated FAQ as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job Advert Template as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lightweight OKRs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Django: An Unofficial Opinionated FAQ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Document All the Things as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make decisions and own them as a story · 2 points
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