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Marc G Gauthier
Personal blog · marcgg.com/blog · on HN as marcggprogrammingstartups
Marc G Gauthier writes marcgg#blog, a personal blog at marcgg.com about programming and startups. Since 2012, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 62 times, most often “One on One Meeting Opening Lines”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Marc G Gauthier's posts on one-on-one meeting questions and on team productivity, and cite his posts on Vim setup and editor history. Comments mostly praise the one-on-one and productivity posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm a software engineer, technical leader and startup advisor. I blog about writing software, side projects, entrepreneurship, management and more.
Most-linked posts?
- One on One Meeting Opening Lines2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-16
- The Technical Accomplishments of Grace Murray Hopper2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-05
- The problem with Peak: Activity ≠ productivity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-12
- All Projects Are Business Projects2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-23
What Hacker News says?
A great one-on-one begins with good questions. This post gives some great hints. https://marcgg.com/blog/2019/11/30/one-on-one-openers/
Comment linking /blog/2019/11/30/one-on-one-openers/
on “1-on-1 meeting questions”Submitted Gaining Years of Experience in a Few Months as a story · 80 points
HN discussionSee also `:h defaults.vim-explained` ( https://vimhelp.org/usr_05.txt.html#05.3 ) which now comes by default. You can either copy the settings you are interested in or source it entirely in your vimrc file: source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim --- Here's some more related resource links: * stackoverflow: useful .vimrc tips - ( https://stackoverflow.com/q/164847/4082052 ) * vi.stackexchange: How do I debug my vimrc file?…
Comment linking /blog/2016/03/01/vimrc-example
on “Vim – Minimal Setup Explained”Submitted Web Views and RubyMotion as a story · 30 points
HN discussionIt's not that hard, it's just a matter of saving some time on weekends for instance. If you don't have a lot of hours to put into them, just reduce the scope and do something you can complete in a few evenings / nights. Then if you're happy with it, you can iterate and get a real product out of it. I elaborated more on the subject on my blog a few months back if you're interested: http://marcgg.com/2012/01/09/start-…
Comment linking /2012/01/09/start-working-on-your-side-project/
on “Ask HN: How do you find time for pet projects?”Submitted 2 Days Trying To Create a Multiplayer HTML5 Game as a story · 29 points
HN discussionWe've seen Peak, and it's encouraging that there are others in the automated productivity space. There are a few major differences between us and them, however: Peak focuses on the individual. We focus on the team. There was an excellent article today ( http://marcgg.com/blog/2013/11/12/peak-productivity/ ) discussing the issue with ranking team members based on their output, especially when information is far from…
Comment linking /blog/2013/11/12/peak-productivity/
on “Show HN: Daily email summaries to keep up with your team”Submitted Create a Custom Slider With RubyMotion as a story · 22 points
HN discussionHow did we end up in this mess? Back in the early 2000s, innovation in software development was booming. IDEs actually helped you build stuff. You had Visual Component Libraries, drag and drop interfaces, proper GUIs. Visual Basic, Delphi, .NET and the one and only Xcode. When I read about these tools or watch videos, it feels like toolmakers were on fire. https://marcgg.com/blog/2024/01/05/editor-history/ And then…
Comment linking /blog/2024/01/05/editor-history/
on “No Time to Learn React (2024)”Submitted The problem with Peak: Activity ≠ productivity as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm Not Proud To Be French as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developers, Share Your Technical Knowledge as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips and Tricks Learned Releasing an Hybrid App Using Steroids.js as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deadlines and Estimates in Startups as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Git Flow with Heroku Pipelines as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Elixir Processes as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grace Murray Hopper, Creator of the First Compiler as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Risks of Working With Another Company's API as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Team Morale is not an Objective as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Feedback Loop Difference Between Developers and Managers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Real Life A/B Testing with Universal Analytics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How CSS Animations Can Break Your Tests as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Problem With Apps To Track Your Life (And Why I Created My Own) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My First Impressions of AppGyver's Steroids.js as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Please Keep a Changelog For Your Open Source Library as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My AI Workflow (Without Losing My Skills) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generate Sounds Programmatically with JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Impressions: Rails 5 on Google App Engine as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Coverage Is a Vanity Metric as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Automate Tasks Only Based on Time Spent as a story · 3 points
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