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Mike Roberts
Personal blog · mikebroberts.comprogrammingdesign
Mike Roberts's personal blog at mikebroberts.com covers programming and design. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post for its discussion of 'earnestness'. One commenter says it introduced them to the term and applies it to senior developers who go unquestioned.
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Personal website of Mike Roberts
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for introducing me to that term! Right up there with 'bikeshedding' as my top new word this year. I lampshade frequently. My typical use-case: senior dev says something I think is mistaken, but nobody else questions it. How do I know whether they're just humoring him, or if they are all mentally translating between what he said & what he meant? (Btw, people do this translation often -- nobody wants to be a pe…
Comment linking /2003/07/29/popping-the-why-stack/
on “Earnestness”Submitted Usability testing meets speed dating for fast product iteration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experience using Scala as a functional testing language as a story · 1 points
HN discussion