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Passion for Coding

Personal blog · coding.abel.nuprogrammingcareer

Passion for Coding is a personal blog at coding.abel.nu about programming and career. Since 2012, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Programmer Time Translation Table”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-26, and you can follow it by feed.

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18mentions?
17HN people?
2012–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post on translating programmer time estimates, a series on project sabotage, and a post on the built-in .NET CSV parser. One commenter sends colleagues the estimates post.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Programmer Time Translation Table
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-06-14
  2. Programmer Time Translation Table
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-15
  3. What's this Owin Stuff About?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. damon_c · 2013-11-29
    http://coding.abel.nu/2012/06/programmer-time-translation-ta... I occasionally just paste this link with no explaination at the end of emails containing time estimates.

    Comment linking /2012/06/programmer-time-translation-table/

    on “Why are software development estimates regularly off by a factor of 2-3?”
  2. chinchang · 2012-10-06

    Submitted Programmer Time Translation Table as a story · 181 points

    HN discussion
  3. nxc18 · 2016-08-09Recommends
    I recently saw a great blog series about sabotage and how to defeat it in the context of projects. Sabotage often happens for personal and political reasons and he lays out clear ways to defeat it. https://coding.abel.nu/series/project-saboteurs/ It is a great read.

    Comment linking /series/project-saboteurs/

    on “The CIA’s 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual (2015)”
  4. CharlesW · 2024-05-03

    Submitted Programmer Time Translation Table as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. SigmundA · 2024-09-18
    Microsoft's SignedXml implementation in the .Net framework fixed this 8 years ago so long as you are correctly using the GetIdElement which makes sure there are no duplicates. https://coding.abel.nu/2016/03/vulnerability-in-net-signedxm...

    Comment linking /2016/03/vulnerability-in-net-signedxml/

    on “Ruby-SAML pwned by XML signature wrapping attacks”
  6. jwl · 2012-06-14

    Submitted Programmer Time Translation Table as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  7. uk_programmer · 2020-03-18
    A little known secret is that in the VB namespace in .NET full fat, there is a really nice CSV file reader/writer. https://coding.abel.nu/2012/06/built-in-net-csv-parser/

    Comment linking /2012/06/built-in-net-csv-parser/

    on “The chronic suffering of the VB.NET community”
  8. teddyh · 2015-12-17

    Submitted An Always Valid XML Signature as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. kensai · 2018-04-15

    Submitted Programmer Time Translation Table (2012) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. charlieirish · 2016-08-05

    Submitted The Project Counter-Sabotage Handbook as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. AndersAbel · 2014-05-20

    Submitted What's this Owin Stuff About? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. AndreyKarpov · 2012-10-08

    Submitted Programmer Time Translation Table as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. yread · 2012-06-15

    Submitted Programmer Time Translation Table as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. numo16 · 2015-02-17

    Submitted What’s This Owin Stuff About? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. blacktulip · 2014-04-14

    Submitted Programmer Time Translation Table as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. AndersAbel · 2014-03-04

    Submitted Why did the Respect for Tech Skills get Lost? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. javinpaul · 2013-02-11

    Submitted First Step on Legacy Code: Classifying as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. henrik_w · 2012-09-22

    Submitted Top Programmer Recruiting Mistakes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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