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Ryan James Spencer

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Ryan James Spencer writes justanotherdot, a personal blog at justanotherdot.com about programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-19, and you can follow it by feed.

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  1. https://justanotherdot.com I write about language-agnostic mental models as well as Rust specific tips and lessons. I've written about: * Processes for reading code: https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/reading-code-is-decodin... * Treating a codebase as a home (as opposed to a skyscraper): https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/make-a-home.html * Writing useful pull requests: https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/what…

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  2. Submitted System's Thinking: A Primer as a story · 5 points

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  3. Submitted An Infinite Barrage of Mountains to Climb as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted Put your own oxygen maks on first as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted An Architecture Agnostic Intro to Assembly as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted What Makes Up a CPU? as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted Making Friends with Caches as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted May You Be the Author of 2^N Programs as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Advertise work interests and ignore proficiencies as a story · 1 points

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  10. Submitted Time management is time sensitivity as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted Default to Trust as a story · 1 points

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  12. Submitted Let the Caller Decide the Return Value as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted Profiling Doesn't Always Have to Be Fancy as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Soft Skill Hygiene as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Magnifying Glasses for Rust Assembly as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Reading Code Is Decoding as a story · 1 points

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