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Lea Verou
Personal blog · pensieve.verou.mecultureprogramming
Lea Verou's personal blog at pensieve.verou.me covers culture and programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “On Women in Tech”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lea Verou's blog for her writing on women in tech and sexism, especially innate versus acquired differences. Commenters call specific posts a favourite and exquisite.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- On Women in Tech2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-10
What Hacker News says?
I agree with this, but I have to say that my favorite piece of writing on the subject still has to be Lea Verou's blog post: http://pensieve.verou.me/post/54853162595/on-women-in-tech It's also a bit more substantial than this (fairly short) piece. If you're not interested in the subject matter, you should at least look at the article to see all the typographic features in the font.
Comment linking /post/54853162595/on-women-in-tech
on “In which I answer all of the questions (2012)”Submitted On Women in Tech as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'll quote an excerpt from Lea Verou's exquisite article on sexism ( http://pensieve.verou.me/post/47360690848/what-is-sexism ) that I think helps answer this in a broader sense: There is a lot of talk about what’s innate and what’s acquired. Characteristics we considered male or female for centuries are constantly being proven a result of nurture, either completely or by a large part, as tiny innate differences tha…
Comment linking /post/47360690848/what-is-sexism
on “Poll: Male or female or other”