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Michael Hart
Personal blog · gybe.caprogrammingwriting
Michael Hart writes cat /dev/brain, a personal blog at gybe.ca about programming and writing. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Writing Code Is the Same Thing as Writing Prose”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Michael Hart's post "Let's blame the dev who pressed Deploy" is discussed on HN as a piece about blaming an individual developer for a deployment. The one comment there is critical of it.
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?
- Writing Code Is the Same Thing as Writing Prose2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-08
- A Few Words About Blameless Culture – By Michael Hart – Oct, 20232 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-04
What Hacker News says?
Weak post. Agree with others that this is just rage bait lacking substance. Blaming the developers (or any specific individual/group for that matter) is a cop out, it’s easy and lazy and doesn’t get to the root of the problem, which is more often than not a lack of processes, tools, information and lack of time/desire from leadership to address “technical debt” (for lack of a better term), no matter how many times t…
Comment linking /a-few-words-about-blameless-culture/
on “Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"”Submitted Writing Code Is the Same Thing as Writing Prose as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Few Words About Blameless Culture – By Michael Hart – Oct, 2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Code Is the Same Thing as Writing Prose as a story · 1 points
HN discussion