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Mohammad Shaddad writes On Engineering, a personal blog at onengineering.substack.com about programming and career. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “There is no secure software supply-chain”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
5HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for posts on software engineering, including a piece on the fate of the Go Gorilla package and one on whether there is secure software. One commenter called the linked post on secure software worth reading.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. There is no secure software supply-chain
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-12-29
  2. Core-JS is holding the internet hostage
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. jrochkind1 · 2023-01-18Recommends
    The OP is in part a reflection on the sunset of the Go Gorilla package. The blog post about that which it links to at the end is very much worth a read (I didn't know about it, or the fate of the Gorilla package, before getting linked to it here), and I'd actually love to see an HN thread about THAT one! https://onengineering.substack.com/p/there-is-no-secure-soft... Looks like that's been submitted to HN, but never…

    Comment linking /p/there-is-no-secure-software-supply

    on “The Art of Knowing When to Quit”
  2. Submitted How the agile manifesto changed nothing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Core-JS is holding the internet hostage as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted What to Do with Rotting Software? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Folly of Using ChatGPT as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Why engineers need to be bored as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Core-JS is holding the internet hostage as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted There is no secure software supply-chain as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted There is no secure software supply-chain as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted There is no secure software supply-chain as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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