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pcloadletter
Personal blog · pcloadletter.dev/blogprogrammingcareerai
pcloadletter is a personal blog at pcloadletter.dev about programming, career and ai. Since 2024, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Dark UX doesn't work in the long run”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-23, and you can follow it by feed.
What the **** does that mean?
Most-linked posts?
- Dark UX doesn't work in the long run3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-15
- Coding Interviews Are Effective2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-20
- Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is terrible2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-07
- RSS is still pretty great2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-11
- Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-22
- Quality is a hard sell in big tech2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-24
- The Monty Hall Problem, a side-by-side simulation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-02
What Hacker News says?
https://www.pcloadletter.dev Some articles have been well-received here and certainly resulted in good discussion!
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted RSS is still pretty great as a story · 256 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quality is a hard sell in big tech as a story · 190 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agile Is a Tainted Term as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dark UX doesn't work in the long run as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted Somewhere along the way we forgot about software craftsmanship as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole as a story · 44 points
HN discussionSubmitted RSS is still pretty great (2024) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generative AI will probably make blogs better as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Monty Hall Problem, a side-by-side simulation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am (2024) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surely dark UX patterns don't work in the long run as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI hype is excessive, but its productivity gains are real as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cool project, will you actually maintain it? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted If AI "slop" scares you, your PR reviews are broken as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding Interviews Are Effective as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surely dark UX doesn't work in the long run as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pre-Agent Nostalgia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Craftsmanship Is Dead as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is terrible as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is a disaster as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quality is a hard sell in big tech as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Birthday Paradox, Simulated as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Features for no one (AI edition) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Monty Hall Problem, a side-by-side simulation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I hope generative AI does away with SEO as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted NPM needs an analog to pnpm's minimumReleaseAge and yarn's npmMinimalAgeGate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make your PR process resilient to AI slop as a story · 1 points
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