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Pam The Webivore

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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.

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21mentions?
12HN people?
2012–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2012

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?

  1. Working Too Much is Hurting Your Productivity
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-03-29
  2. Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-13
  3. /using-replace-in-go-mod-to-point-to-your-local-module/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted Working Too Much is Hurting Your Productivity as a story · 151 points

    HN discussion
  3. Oh! 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”
  4. Submitted Recurse Center: The return statement (2015) as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  5. richieb · 2012-04-16Recommends
    You 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.”
  6. Submitted What happened after I left my software engineering career as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  7. http://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”
  8. Submitted Please remove “junior” from your developer titles as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  9. richieb · 2012-04-03Recommends
    I 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”
  10. Submitted Stop using “Nerd” to describe people who like computers as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. Inbox 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.”
  12. Submitted Git Bisect: A Love Story as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Choosing the best tool for the job as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Spriting in Compass and optimizing for retina and standard displays as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted The Business Case for Craftsmanship as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Go the Fuck Home as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Recurse Center: The return statement (2015) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Random Hacks Dec 2012 – who will you hack for? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Interviewing Engineers for Engineers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Building a great work culture: in praise of Hack Day as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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