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Noah Hall
Personal blog · thetechenabler.substack.comprogrammingcareer
Noah Hall writes The Tech Enabler, a personal blog at thetechenabler.substack.com about programming and career. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Software engineering practices you should probably be following in 2024”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Noah Hall's Substack is linked as his main blog, including a write-up of a web app built with Google Sheets as the database and Apps Script as the backend. Comments only cite or list it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My personal Substack for my role as a tech enabler inside a large media company. I write about work, culture, and programming in general. My current series is all about tech trends and what I think teams should adopt or drop. with
Most-linked posts?
- Software engineering practices you should probably be following in 20242 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-27
- How programming languages influence each other and evolve2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-15
- Programming Languages After LLMs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-21
What Hacker News says?
I recently made a full web app using only AppsScript and Google Sheets as the database, and wrote about it here [0], and open sourced it here [1]. It was a novel experience, but I felt particularly compelled by the idea of having a data store than non-devs can easily interact with while having a web app in front of it that didn't require a server to be set up. But, AppsScript is too slow for this kinda thing to be a…
Comment linking /i/142898781/making-a-simple-link-aggregator
on “Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app”Submitted Programming Affordances That Invite Mistakes as a story · 50 points
HN discussionLocation: Norway Remote: Hybrid or full remote Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: TypeScript, Python, Rust, Elm, Haskell. Resume: [LinkedIn]( https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-h-1264371ab/ ), [Github]( https://github.com/eeue56/ ), [main blog]( https://thetechenabler.substack.com/ ) Email: Message on LinkedIn Developer who has a passion for helping the world and others, through technology (or sometimes n…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)”Submitted Is GitHub a trustworthy keeper of our code? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Egoless Engineering as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The mythical AI-agent month as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gut-Feelings vs. Metrics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Prefer Unconferences to Conferences as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software engineering primer for non software engineers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Answering Questions as a Learning Technique as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How programming languages influence each other and evolve as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software engineering practices you should probably be following in 2024 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Languages influence each other and evolve as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gobaith, an open source mood tracker for developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My guidelines for AI-assisted coding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facilitating technical disagreements with a joker card as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working from Home, the Office, or Remotely as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problems probably aren't as unique as you think they are as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mainstream languages I would use in production, in 2024 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Development devices for software engineers I like, in 2024 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software engineering practices I like, in 2024 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deterministic vs. Probabilistic Code Generation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a vibe-code platform (Coder) on your own infrastructure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Guidelines for Vibe-Coding as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choose the Right Structure at the Start as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keeping your head up during tough times at work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Languages After LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Languages After LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I handle incidents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A walk-through of hackathon facilitation as a story · 1 points
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