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Matt Blewitt

Personal blog · matt.blwt.io/postprogrammingsystemscareer

Matt Blewitt's personal blog at matt.blwt.io covers programming, systems and career. Since 2022, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-24, and you can follow it by feed.

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22mentions?
12HN people?
2022–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2024

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Most-linked posts?

  1. 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-12-01
  2. Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-06
  3. Control Loops and Rice Cookers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-15
  4. Long Distance Relationships
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-14
  5. So, You Want to Build a DBaaS
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 as a story · 404 points

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  2. Submitted Tools for a Culture of Writing (2021) as a story · 123 points

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  3. Submitted Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics as a story · 51 points

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  4. Submitted 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 as a story · 5 points

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  5. Submitted Long Distance Relationships as a story · 4 points

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  6. Submitted Control Loops and Rice Cookers as a story · 4 points

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  7. Submitted So, You Want to Build a DBaaS as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted Sensibly Default as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted Long Distance Relationships as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted Regular Restarts Are Good, Actually as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted That Okta LDAP Bug as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted A Love Letter to Giant Robots as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Movement for Engineers as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted So, You Want to Build a DBaaS Part 2 as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted So, You Want to Build a DBaaS as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Postgres Logical Replication Guardrails as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Lua: The Little Language That Could as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted So, You Want to Build a DBaaS Part 2 as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Control Loops and Rice Cookers (2021) as a story · 1 points

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