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Matt Blodgett
Personal blog · mattblodgett.com · on HN as strangetimesprogrammingcareer
Matt Blodgett's personal blog at mattblodgett.com covers programming and career. Since 2008, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Just Wear Headphones”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, 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 his posts on workplace topics: excerpts from the book Peopleware for tech leads, a collection of links on why open-plan offices are bad, and a post on a Rotten Tomatoes overlay for Netflix.
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.
Matt Blodgett on topics occasionally germane to software development.
Most-linked posts?
- Just Wear Headphones2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-22
- Remote Work Denial Is a Bad Look2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-03
What Hacker News says?
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Probably not Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattblodgett Email: mattblodgett [at] gmail [dot] com Blog: http://mattblodgett.com --- My blog posts this year about the non-technical aspects of software development (in particular office design) have made the front page of Hacker News, received over 200K views, and gotten me interviewed by Wired maga…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015)”Submitted But Where Do People Work in This Office? as a story · 502 points
HN discussionPeopleware is out of print? That's a real shame. I wish as many managers had read Peopleware as have read The Mythical Man Month . If your local library has a copy, check it out. Here are some small excerpts: http://www.mattblodgett.com/2008/06/select-quotes-from-peopl... http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001248.php
Comment linking /2008/06/select-quotes-from-peopleware-part-2.html
on “Tips for Tech Leads”Submitted Just Wear Headphones as a story · 278 points
HN discussionI collect links on topics that interest me, sometimes over long periods. I have a list called "Open plan offices are bad". https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt... https://www.mattblodgett.com/2015/06/just-wear-headphones.ht... https://dandreamsofcoding.com/2014/06/17/science-superstitio... http://nathanmarz.com/blog/the-inexplicable-rise-of-open-flo... https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/09/10/de…
Comment linking /2015/06/just-wear-headphones.html
on “Ask HN: Why are you against open plan offices?”Submitted The Open Plan Office and the Extrovert Ideal as a story · 87 points
HN discussionThere's an extension for Safari as well (submitted for approval, but here's a link in meantime): http://www.mediafire.com/?li7j7965f67ryrg Also, I wanted to give credit to Matt Blodgett ( http://www.mattblodgett.com/2009/07/rotten-tomatoes-netflix-... ). He had the closest thing to what I was looking for (in that case it was a greasemonkey script that is a bit outdated). I re-used the portion of his code that transl…
Comment linking /2009/07/rotten-tomatoes-netflix-greasemonkey.html
on “Weekend Hack: Rotten Tomatoes reviews overlayed on Netflix (Extensions)”Submitted How to Make an Open Plan Office Suck Less as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted Now Hiring: Ruthlessly Honest Dick as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted People Hire Clones of Themselves as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted The decision to apply schedule pressure to a project as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Different Strokes for (Remote) Folks as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be the Automator as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Your Codebase a Hotel Room or a Home? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Validating Phone Numbers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backlog Prioritization Affects Developer Morale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are Software Developers Respected by “Business People”? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted But Where Do People Work in This Office? (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Harsh Light of Remote Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job Ad Red Flags: Technical Minutiae as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Developer Interviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted “That’s Easy. You Just…” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Library and the Bazaar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technicians Get No Respect as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote Work Denial Is a Bad Look as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Problem Is Not Unique as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should Managers Share an Update in the Standup? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let Unsustainable Things Fail as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maximize the Amount of Work Not Done as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Do I Convert Story Points to Hours? as a story · 1 points
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