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Matt Lacey
Personal blog · mrlacey.comprogrammingcareer
Matt Lacey's personal blog at mrlacey.com covers programming and career. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Creating maintainable software that adds "real" value
Most-linked posts?
- You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-14
What Hacker News says?
Submitted You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? as a story · 964 points
HN discussionSubmitted You've only added two lines – why did that take two days as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why did you need to change 8 files to add one checkbox? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never Delete Tests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The idea that making code open-source won't cost a company anything as a story · 2 points
HN discussion