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Scott Johnson
Personal blog · fuzzyblog.io/blog · on HN as fuzzygroupprogrammingcareerwriting
Scott Johnson writes FuzzyBlog, a personal blog at fuzzyblog.io about programming, career and writing. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one HN comment links this blog, a 2018 jobhound post on the difficulty of senior machine learning job searches in a large US city. The commenter cites it in a thread about finding software jobs with private offices.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-04-24
What Hacker News says?
https://fuzzyblog.io/blog/ I'm the creator of https://www.covidnearme.org/ (local case counts for Covid) and I blog about Ruby, Python, Machine Learning and startup type stuff.
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role as a story · 772 points
HN discussionWhile its not hard to setup, Github doesn't cover how to do so for private repositories. I put the steps for setting this up on a per repositor basis here: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/github/2017/11/17/enabling-github-s...
Comment linking /blog/github/2017/11/17/enabling-github-security-alerts-on-your-private-repositories.html
on “Security alerts on GitHub”Submitted Rust Editors to Replace TextMate 2 – The Agony of Despair as a story · 54 points
HN discussionThank you so much for this. I actually couldn't find it the first time through so I documented the whole flow with screenshots here: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/osx/2017/02/16/getting-rid-of-smart...
Comment linking /blog/osx/2017/02/16/getting-rid-of-smart-quotes-on-osx.html
on “Amazon Chime”Submitted The Problem with Medium as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAt the risk of incurring self promotion issues (and I really don't understand what qualifies as acceptable self promotion), I didn't feel that this article was all that clear if you are an AWS focused user, so I wrote up all the steps it took to use Eternal Terminal in an OSX / AWS context including an Ansible playbook for configuration. https://fuzzyblog.io/blog/aws/2019/11/26/using-eternal-termi...
Comment linking /blog/aws/2019/11/26/using-eternal-terminal-with-osx-and-aws-including-ansible-support.html
on “Eternal Terminal”Submitted Step by Step Guide to Using Streamlit, PyTorch and Bert on a Cheap AWS Instance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI looked at this app in depth and used it for about 2 days. Overall it is fairly usable and I liked it but the memory usage is killer. On a MacBook Air with 8 gigs, it uses 979 megs out of the gate and bloats up an additional 100 megs by the next morning. More details here: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/email/2017/01/18/nylas-mail-review....
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on “Nylas Mail is now free”Submitted Getting AWS Costs Under Control as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHey Afpx, You're not alone. I recently went thru this myself and wrote up my experiences here: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/jobhound/2018/04/24/ten-things-i-le... I hope that helps.
Comment linking /blog/jobhound/2018/04/24/ten-things-i-learned-from-a-job-hunt-for-a-senior-engineering-role.html
on “Over 30? Too Old for Tech Jobs in China”Submitted Anatomy of an Accidental Product Launch with Metrics – Day 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThanks for such detailed follow-ups. I appreciate it and will read your comments again to really think about some of the points you raise. Regarding my tough time with current negotiations, there was a recent article that really summed up my experiences: < http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/jobhound/2018/04/24/ten-things-i-le... >. I live in a large US city, and seeking senior machine learning roles has been dreadful, for all…
Comment linking /blog/jobhound/2018/04/24/ten-things-i-learned-from-a-job-hunt-for-a-senior-engineering-role.html
on “Ask HN: How to find software jobs that provide private offices in urban areas?”Submitted Ten Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://fuzzyblog.io/blog/ I don't know if it matters to recruiters but it matters a ton to me . I find that a personal web site gives a place for me to document what I know and that improves my work.
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on “Ask HN: Do you have a personal website?”Submitted Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHey Nick, here's my list: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/osx/2017/06/13/the-tools-i-use.html tldr: Macbook Pro and TextMate 2 for most everything.
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on “Ask HN: What notable software and hardware make up your dev environment?”