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Ryan O'Neill

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Ryan O'Neill writes Roughly Written, a personal blog at roughlywritten.substack.com about programming, culture and career. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Random Thoughts 15 years into Software Engineering”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
4HN people?
2023–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2023

I publish rough drafts about software, technology, urbanism, and whatever else comes to mind.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Random Thoughts 15 years into Software Engineering
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-19
  2. How to Stay Sane While Working from Home
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Let me repeat that back to you as a story · 127 points

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  2. Submitted How to Stay Sane While Working from Home as a story · 3 points

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  3. Submitted A simple technique for more reliable software as a story · 2 points

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  4. Submitted How to stay sane while working from home as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted Random Thoughts 15 years into Software Engineering as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted Underrated features of Ruby [and Rails] as a story · 1 points

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  7. Submitted Multi-tenancy with Supabase, a fast and simple way as a story · 1 points

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  8. Submitted Random Thoughts 15 years into Software Engineering as a story · 1 points

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  9. Submitted Random Thoughts 15 years into Software Engineering as a story · 1 points

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