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Parham Doustdar
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Parham Doustdar's personal blog at parhamdoustdar.com covers programming and culture. Since 2015, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “The Tools of a Blind Programmer”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Parham Doustdar's blog for posts by a blind software developer about his tools, such as 'Tools of Blind Programmer', and about his autobiography and working as a blind programmer.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Life of a Completely Blind Programmer in the Netherlands
Most-linked posts?
- The Tools of a Blind Programmer7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2016-04-03
- Cognitive Tunneling: What It Is and How I Plan to Prevent It2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-24
- An Autobiography of a Blind Programmer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-27
- How I got through Docker's censorship2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-15
- The Advantages of Being a Blind Programmer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-12
What Hacker News says?
Hi there! A colleague of mine referred me to your post. I'd love to have a call and help with advice and coaching to reduce your anxiety of going blind. Since I published the post @ssivark mentioned, I got a lot of emails from developers who were afraid of going blind or who were actually like yourself and were going blind, so trust me when I say that you are not alone and people like you have pulled through. Since…
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on “Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?”Submitted The Tools of a Blind Programmer as a story · 249 points
HN discussionOn the question of tools: 1. Emacspeak, a text-to-speech system developed by T.V. Raman (a developer at Google) who was blind since childhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacspeak & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._V._Raman 2. How a completely blind dev/manager uses Emacs daily (talk at a recent Emacsconf) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8dBvssptP0 & https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-pr…
Comment linking /2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-programmer/
on “Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?”Submitted How I got through Docker's censorship as a story · 75 points
HN discussionHi blinddev, You might want to read this: TOOLS of Blind Programmer https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-pro... Hope this can help.
Comment linking /2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-programmer/
on “Ask HN: Any other blind devs interested in working on dev tools for the blind?”Submitted An Autobiography of a Blind Programmer as a story · 58 points
HN discussionnot exactly true. See https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/04/12/advantages-of-bein... or https://www.vincit.fi/en/blog/software-development-450-words...
Comment linking /2016/04/12/advantages-of-being-a-blind-programmer/
on “GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged”Submitted Why Most Technical Interviews Are Testing the Wrong Thing as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> How would you create a native GUI app on Linux for either Gnome or KDE, considering that GTK and Qt are not allowed by this definition? >And yes, you may think: "Easy, if a GTK app runs on Linux its native, if it runs on another platform, it's not". Does that mean JavaScript apps for Gnome[1] can be called native, because they have officially blessed bindings to the underlying framework/platform and are fully inte…
Comment linking /2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-programmer/
on “Going native”Submitted The Advantages of Being a Blind Programmer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI was very inspired by a blind programmer who uses text to speech at inhuman speeds. https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/03/27/autobiography-blin... That's perhaps an extreme example of what is possible but it's incredible what people can adapt to.
Comment linking /2016/03/27/autobiography-blind-programmer/
on “Cursorless – A spoken language for structural code editing”Submitted An Autobiography of a Blind Programmer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere's a fairly recent post (or two) about being blind and a developer. https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-pro...
Comment linking /2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-programmer/
on “Death by Tactile Paving”Submitted How to Protect Your Ideas (and How I Stole from James Altucher) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionParham Doustdar ( https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/03/27/autobiography-blin... ) is a blind programmer who lists his tools here ( https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-pro... ). He mentions languages, and lists PHP, Go, Elixir, and Scala.
Comment linking /2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-programmer/
on “Ask HN: What are the best / most accessible languages for blind programmers?”Submitted Using Go to Communicate More Effectively as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-pro... Looks like screen readers (adults run them at incredible speeds) + incredible memory and skill + any text-based language
Comment linking /2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-programmer/
on “Ask HN: Alternatives to Scratch for a blind child?”Submitted Cognitive Tunneling: What It Is and How I Plan to Prevent It as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cognitive Tunneling: What It Is and How I Plan to Prevent It as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I got through Docker's censorship as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cognitive Tunneling: What It Is and How I Plan to Prevent It as a story · 1 points
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