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Patrick Rothfuss
Personal blog · blog.patrickrothfuss.comwritingculture
Patrick Rothfuss's personal blog at blog.patrickrothfuss.com covers writing and culture. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links this blog for posts about naming, including baby names, and for an older fanmail advice post on learning to code while balancing work and family. The comments do not judge the writing.
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.
Author of the Kingkiller Chronicle
What Hacker News says?
>I agree with many of these points, and the content of the book has more alignment with your perspective than the brief list of principles may suggest. Interesting! I shall keep reading in that case! Will let you know if I have any further feedback. > I'll take a look at The Kingkiller Chronicle The blog posts that touch on naming are here [1] but there are definitely a lot of posts just related to baby names there.…
Comment linking /category/naming/
on “Why we need a book about naming”Submitted Patrick Rothfuss calls The Game of Books ill-conceived bullshit...then loves it. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's not about OSS,it's about maintaining and understanding other people's code and revision control. If you don't have kids at this point, then I'd go with the Pat Rothfuss method: http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2010/02/fanmail-q-advice-for... If you do have kids at this point, your situation is significantly harder. That said, if you don't have kids, are you really working/commuting 90 hours a week and don't have…
Comment linking /2010/02/fanmail-q-advice-for-new-writers/
on “Ask HN: How many of you non-tech people wanted to learn to code and gave up”Submitted "The Wise Man's Fear" (sequel to "The Name of the Wind") due March 1st 2011 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Game of Books (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Double-Edged Sword of Empathy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doing What We Can as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TOR interview with Patrick Rothfuss (on The Kingkiller Chronicles) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Following Diogenes as a story · 1 points
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