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Matt Sencenbaugh
Personal blog · mattsencenbaugh.com · on HN as msencenbstartupsprogrammingcareer
Matt Sencenbaugh's personal blog at mattsencenbaugh.com covers startups, programming and career. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Where is next November? (2016)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on what programmers visualize while coding. The only comment discusses Fred Brooks's synesthesia screening and does not comment on this blog's writing.
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.
Musings on life, technology, and entrepreneurship.
Most-linked posts?
- Where is next November? (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-28
What Hacker News says?
If you define 'profitable' as $100 a month, that's where one of my iOS apps ( http://postcardpanda.com ) is at after 2+ years. I've only recently started putting actual time into it though. If you want the full income report, here is May's: http://mattsencenbaugh.com/postcard-panda-may-2016-income-re...
Comment linking /postcard-panda-may-2016-income-report/
on “Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?”Submitted On Being a Junior Developer as a story · 141 points
HN discussionIn an extended chapter of Mythical Man Month, Fred Brooks described his practice of screening candidates for number-form synesthesia by asking “where is November?” I have number form so when I was young and originally read this I thought it was pretty neat. But as evidenced in the rest of this thread, it’s an absolutely crazy practice since the majority of great programmers don’t have it. And I assume it’d be illega…
Comment linking /where-is-next-november/
on “What do you visualize while programming?”Submitted Why Startups Occasionally Act Like Sociopaths as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Launching my first SaaS product in 54 hours, 20 minutes, and 5 seconds as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xcode's Secret Menu Option – How to Clean Your Build Folder as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Macroservices – A Pragmatic Approach for Small Teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It Worked For Me as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Refuse to Negotiate on Equity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Questions That Will Make You A Better Leader as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lifestyle Business Challenge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where is next November? (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postcard Panda May 2016 Income Report as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You've got a product, not a company as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postcard Panda April 2016 Report as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where is next November? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postcard Panda March 2016 Stats Report as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Search of the First Customer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AppleWatchWeekly – A Newsletter Experiment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: I'm writing a book about Prototyping & User Testing. Feedback? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantity vs Quality in Early Stage Prototypes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Question To Rule Them All - Getting Honest User Feedback as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What iOS7 Auto Update Means For Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lifestyle Business Challenge - Month 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never Lost Sight Of What Really Matters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leaving My Baby - A Journey Into The Abyss as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hobbyist Game Programming - The Beginning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Landing Your First Programming Internship as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The "Priority Queue" Development Process as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MVLP - Minimum Viable Landing Page as a story · 1 points
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