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Making Software on Tales about Software Engineering
Personal blog · beny23.github.ioprogrammingsecurityai
Making Software on Tales about Software Engineering is a personal blog at beny23.github.io about programming, security and ai. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “What Makes a Good Developer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter asks what game appears in an image in this post on the weaponisation of open source, and looks through the author's open-source code for it. The post is a software engineering piece.
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.
Writings about software: development and security
Most-linked posts?
- What Makes a Good Developer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-14
What Hacker News says?
Does anyone know the game that is being shown in the image? @beny23, I checked your code (OSS FTW!) but the image name doesn't reveal anything: https://github.com/beny23/beny23.github.io/blob/master/posts... https://beny23.github.io/images/on_weaponisation_of_open_sou...
Comment linking /images/on_weaponisation_of_open_source_title.jpg
on “On the Weaponisation of Open Source”Submitted On the Weaponisation of Open Source as a story · 319 points
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HN discussionSubmitted AI Is the Enshittification of Recruitment as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes a Good Developer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fizzbuzz Without If Clauses as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exponential exploit: Why AppSec is hard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibe Hacking a Padding Oracle as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case Against Automatic Dependency Updates as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The agile power of saying no as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Curating Dependency Vulnerabilities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Run a Digital Platform at Scale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pwnkit: How to Exploit and Check as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make it so: GenAI, OpenAPI and ZAP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted XZ backdoor is not the end of open source as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resisting Compliance Is Futile as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI-Dvent of Code 2023 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Functional Programming in MongoDB as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ApocalypsAI: Skynet Not Needed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Engineers Should Look After the Worst Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harvesting Logs for Fun and Profit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why AppSec Fails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Precision Munitions for Denial of Service as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s the biggest challenge faced by the software product engineering today? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes a Good Developer? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A mission statement that makes sense as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Record and Publish Your Meeting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Eat Out to Help Out Restaurant Finder as a story · 1 points
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