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Jon Evans
Personal blog · rezendi.comwritingsecurity
Jon Evans's personal blog at rezendi.com covers writing and security. Since 2007, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Blood, Bullets, Bombs, and Bandwidth”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jon Evans's rezendi.com for his novels Invisible Armies and Beasts of New York, which have free digital editions, and for an essay on in-the-trenches tech experience.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jon Evans is an author, software engineer, journalist, archivist, and CTO. His epic and epically weird AI novel EXADELIC, coming in September from Tor Books, is his first in over a decade.
Most-linked posts?
- Blood, Bullets, Bombs, and Bandwidth3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-03-11
- /invisibleArmies.htm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-06
What Hacker News says?
The guy who wrote this is not even a real professional software developer[1] but it seems that he has strong opinions on technical interviews anyway. In fact I looked up few people he mentioned in article and none of them seem to be real full time software developers either. Nevertheless whoever has microphone gets to get heard, I guess. I have seen a lot of PMish/weak programmers make cries about technical intervie…
Comment linking /aboutauthor.htm
on “The Terrible Technical Interview”Submitted Blood, Bullets, Bombs, and Bandwidth as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's fascinating. Btw, I think everyone should read the essay about you, gives new meaning to in the trenches tech experience: http://www.rezendi.com/travels/bbbb.html
Comment linking /travels/bbbb.html
on “How Meals Win Wars”Submitted Blood, Bullets, Bombs, and Bandwidth as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMoney is a huge incentive especially early in your career. It will absolutely be a once in a life time experience, that said it may be your last experience in this lifetime. You enjoy your job now and are only 4 months in. Do not discount the value of local experience relative to foreign experience. Later in your career taking experience abroad may be an asset depending on your role, but early on local experience an…
Comment linking /travels/bbbb.html
on “Ask HN: Would you go to Iraq for a year and be paid $200k?”I have found books from Jon Evans very delightful and interesting to read: 1) Beasts of New York – http://www.beastsofnewyork.com/ 2) Invisible Armies (thriller, drama, computer hacking) – http://www.rezendi.com/invisibleArmies.htm Both books have their digital edition freely downloadable as well.
Comment linking /invisibleArmies.htm
on “Ask HN: What is the best fiction book you've ever read? ”Invisible armies and swarm by Jon Evans looks like a good match for what you seek. The authors page about the first book: http://www.rezendi.com/invisibleArmies.htm
Comment linking /invisibleArmies.htm
on “Ask HN: Books Like “Stealing the Network” or “Jeff Aiken Novels””
