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Russ Olsen

Personal blog · russolsen.com/blogprogrammingcareer

Russ Olsen writes Technology As If People Mattered, a personal blog at russolsen.com about programming and career. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

technology as if people mattered

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. pplonski86 · 2018-12-15

    Submitted The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012) as a story · 462 points

    HN discussion
  2. reforge_reborn · 2014-05-20

    Submitted The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012) as a story · 121 points

    HN discussion
  3. popey · 2024-05-29

    Submitted The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. chalmovsky · 2026-05-03

    Submitted Some Important Numbers for Developers (2018) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. robgering · 2014-03-22

    Submitted Regular Expressions in Ten Steps as a story · 2 points

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