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Matt DeBoard
Personal blog · mattdeboard.net · on HN as mattdeboardcareerprogramming
Matt DeBoard writes Recent Blog Posts, a personal blog at mattdeboard.net about career and programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “How I Became a Programmer”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
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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.
Most-linked posts?
- How I Became a Programmer2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-11-23
What Hacker News says?
> Were there any interesting ah-ha moments? Yes, all of them. I have them every day. Today's was Solr's facet.limit/.prefix/.mincount methods as it relates to what I'm working on. Nothing stands out because it was a huge bolus of information. > What would he do differently? Nothing. > What guidelines would he give to someone else in a similar position? http://mattdeboard.net/2011/11/23/how-i-became-a-programmer/ > H…
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on “How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks”Submitted How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks as a story · 239 points
HN discussion(Shameless plug) I just wrote about this very thing on Friday: http://mattdeboard.net/2012/10/05/larry-the-software-guy/ Not my best writing ever but that round's already downrange. Plus there's an excellent response from Alex Feinberg in the comments.
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on “The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data Structures”Submitted Displacing MySQL with Solr as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI got a relative lot of email on this (given that I normally get zero mail it was a landslide) so I blogged responses to the questions I got. http://mattdeboard.net/2011/11/23/how-i-became-a-programmer/
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on “Tell HN: I want to teach you web development. In 8 weeks. For free (sort of)”Submitted Facebook's all-or-nothing default privacy model as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI use Armin Ronacher's rstblog site generator. I'd say the inverse of what you said is true, at least in my experience. At some point it is much simpler to just use a static site generator. That point is when you nail down your workflow. I wrote about this very topic this morning: http://mattdeboard.net/2011/05/09/more-tips-on-rstblog/
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on “Introducing Tapir: Simple search for static sites”Submitted Changing Careers at 31 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBTW, your website ( http://mattdeboard.net ) appears to be down. (Just FYI)
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on “Evidence That ADHD Is a Genetic Disorder”Submitted Larry the Software Guy: Will programming ever be considered "blue collar"? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI use Armin Ronacher's RST blog ( https://github.com/mitsuhiko/rstblog ). I even wrote a guide for its use: http://mattdeboard.net/2011/05/09/more-tips-on-rstblog/ minimal static site generator. Worth it if you just want to put your content up and don't need or want pre-packaged bells and whistles.
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on “Ask HN: Best blogging platform?”Submitted How to run a Windows service as a Linux daemon as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI wrote this about 2.5 years ago after I career changed myself http://mattdeboard.net/2011/11/23/how-i-became-a-programmer/ There are a couple other entries there about this general topic.
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on “Ask HN: any advice for someone changing career to become a software engineer?”Submitted Using git & Python to autogen changelogs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn the original post he says switching to a "real" PL is probably "right" but onerous. I won't nitpick on whether or not it's onerous, but maybe it's not as onerous as the author thinks. A few years ago I blogged about generating a Markdown changelog based on PRs http://mattdeboard.net/2014/01/14/automatic-changelog-genera... Though the output is different (just concerned with merge commits), I reckon you could prob…
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on “Git Log in HTML: A Harder Problem and a Safe Solution”Submitted CloudFront & Flask: When signed URLs aren't enough as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Serving search documents via REST API with Django as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Became a Programmer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Facebook Photo Evac as a story · 1 points
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