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Pam The Webivore
Personal blog · thewebivore.comprogrammingcareer
Pam The Webivore is a personal blog at thewebivore.com about programming and career. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Working Too Much is Hurting Your Productivity”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pam Selle's "Go the Fuck Home" Ignite talk about leaving work on time, and her post on using replace in go.mod. Commenters mostly cite them as sources or tell others to watch the talk.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Working Too Much is Hurting Your Productivity3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-03-29
- Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-13
- /using-replace-in-go-mod-to-point-to-your-local-module/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-07
What Hacker News says?
You mean this? https://thewebivore.com/using-replace-in-go-mod-to-point-to-...
Comment linking /using-replace-in-go-mod-to-point-to-your-local-module/
on “What I'd like to see in Go 2.0”Submitted Working Too Much is Hurting Your Productivity as a story · 151 points
HN discussionOh! I get in now. In Go you can 'replace' a required package. https://thewebivore.com/using-replace-in-go-mod-to-point-to-... You can replace with local or remote package (for example if you have published fixed version somewhere and what your teammates to use it too until your changes land in the upstream.)
Comment linking /using-replace-in-go-mod-to-point-to-your-local-module/
on “Learn Go in five minutes”Submitted Recurse Center: The return statement (2015) as a story · 43 points
HN discussionYou need to watch this: http://thewebivore.com/go-the-fuck-home-my-ignite-talk
Comment linking /go-the-fuck-home-my-ignite-talk
on “Why it's OK to leave a tech job at 5 p.m.”Submitted What happened after I left my software engineering career as a story · 22 points
HN discussionhttp://thewebivore.com/why-you-shouldnt-invite-yehuda-katz-t... How ironic is it for this person to call out Yehuda and say don't correct people, when that is exactly what she is doing, she is correcting Yehuda. If she followed her own advice she would have wrote the blog post about a "un named" person and maybe waited a few weeks. Instead she is doing exactly what she is advocating against: Publicly telling some on…
Comment linking /why-you-shouldnt-invite-yehuda-katz-to-your-u
on “16 days since last ruby drama”Submitted Please remove “junior” from your developer titles as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI think you should watch this: http://thewebivore.com/go-the-fuck-home-my-ignite-talk
Comment linking /go-the-fuck-home-my-ignite-talk
on “"We need to work longer" - Why this is not what you want to say”Submitted Stop using “Nerd” to describe people who like computers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionInbox Good Enough is a brilliant--especially when you're down to those last few emails from strangers, and you only have the energy to respond with, "No, and don't ever email me again." I think this fits in well with Pam Selle's "Go the Fuck Home" philosophy. [ http://thewebivore.com/go-the-fuck-home-my-ignite-talk ]
Comment linking /go-the-fuck-home-my-ignite-talk
on “Fuck Inbox Zero. Time for Inbox Good Enough.”Submitted Git Bisect: A Love Story as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing the best tool for the job as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spriting in Compass and optimizing for retina and standard displays as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Business Case for Craftsmanship as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go the Fuck Home as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recurse Center: The return statement (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Random Hacks Dec 2012 – who will you hack for? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interviewing Engineers for Engineers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a great work culture: in praise of Hack Day as a story · 1 points
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