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Lindsey B
Personal blog · rarlindseysmash.com · on HN as lindseybiedacareerculture
Lindsey B's personal blog at rarlindseysmash.com covers career and culture. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Stupid Programmer Tricks and Star Wars GIFs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on programming and tech culture: a Python GIF-making tutorial, a 'stupid programmer tricks' post on Star Wars GIFs, a note on the usage of 'lynch mob', and women's attrition in tech.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Website for Lindsey B a software engineering manager and hacker.
Most-linked posts?
- Stupid Programmer Tricks and Star Wars GIFs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-29
What Hacker News says?
For more on the historical and present-day usage of 'lynch mob': http://rarlindseysmash.com/posts/2013-03-19-you-have-no-idea...
Comment linking /posts/2013-03-19-you-have-no-idea-what-a-lynch-mob-is
on “Drop Dropbox”Submitted Stupid Programmer Tricks and Star Wars GIFs as a story · 311 points
HN discussionNice! Also check out: "Stupid programmer tricks and Star Wars .gif": http://rarlindseysmash.com/posts/stupid-programmer-tricks-an... Also Python, but uses VideoLan (VLC) to some extent to create really nifty Star Wars gifs.
Comment linking /posts/stupid-programmer-tricks-and-star-wars-gifs
on “Making GIFs From Video Files With Python”Submitted Abuse of the abuse button as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSo that's why the percent was higher for CS degrees and then steadily declined, there was interest and now there is less http://rarlindseysmash.com/images/entries/degrees.png . Something is happening here.
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on “Martin Fowler: The Fallacies and Reprocussions of Diversity Imbalance”Submitted The Elephant in the Computer Lab as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe overall trend right now shows the opposite: http://rarlindseysmash.com/images/entries/degrees.png this isn't an issue that is going to self correct and people trying to take steps to remedy a problem should not be lambasted by the community.
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on “Martin Fowler: The Fallacies and Reprocussions of Diversity Imbalance”Submitted Ethnicity Trends in CS Bachelor Recipients as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://rarlindseysmash.com/images/entries/degrees.png This is a graph that shows the percent of women receiving degrees in each field - you'll notice that there is a peak and then a sudden drop off for computer science. Though, for actual numbers in the 1970's a lot of programmers in general weren't getting CS degrees.
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on “Martin Fowler: The Fallacies and Reprocussions of Diversity Imbalance”Submitted Doing Good to Make Us Better: solving the gender gap problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAttrition specifically: > The NCWIT reports 56 percent of women in technology companies leave their > organizations mid-way through their careers, representing a significant and > costly loss of talent. Reducing the attrition rate by just one quarter > would add more than 200,000 staff to the IT workforce. http://blog.comptia.org/2012/03/01/attract-women-to-high-tec... Tons of links: http://www.rarlindseysmash.com/p…
Comment linking /posts/2011-09-08-delicious-data-ethnicity-of-computing-and-the-us-population
on “Sexism In Tech: We’re Not Making It Up”Submitted Women in Computing Factsheet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding As Play as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In the Case of Brit Ruby We All Lose as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delicious Data: Ethnicity of Computing and the U.S. Population as a story · 1 points
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