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Mohammad Aziz
Personal blog · iaziz786.com/blog · on HN as iaziz786programmingproductivitycareer
Mohammad Aziz's personal blog at iaziz786.com covers programming, productivity and career. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Boring work needs tension”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as support for the idea that complexity adds tension to boring work, and that bored software developers add complexity to make their jobs more interesting.
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?
- Boring work needs tension2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-15
What Hacker News says?
Elsewhere on HN https://iaziz786.com/blog/boring-work-needs-tension/ Complexity adds tension. Bored Software developers add complexity to make their jobs more interesting is my take.
Comment linking /blog/boring-work-needs-tension/
on “Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?”Submitted Boring work needs tension as a story · 140 points
HN discussionSubmitted OOP is not Design Patterns as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep Working on Wrong Ideas as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Small Simple Solutions Scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doing the Hard Stuff as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking Free: How I Self-Hosted My SMTP Server with Haraka as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unleash Your Potential as a Brand as a story · 1 points
HN discussion