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Personal blog · simpixelated.com · on HN as simpixelatedprogrammingcareerweb
simpixelated.com is a personal blog at simpixelated.com about programming, career and web. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Two Year Work Retrospective”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on developer effectiveness, this post argues about how productive software developers work. The one comment rejects the idea that product design is more creative than coding.
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.
JavaScript software development tips, strategies for salary negotiation, and other helpful advice for navigating software as a career.
Most-linked posts?
- Two Year Work Retrospective3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-07
What Hacker News says?
I work at a similar company (less than 10 employees, no deadlines, (almost) no meetings), but unlike Gumroad we actually have health insurance, 401K with matching, donation matching, etc. So it is possible to to have "freedom" without laying everyone off and removing all benefits. You can read more about it here: https://simpixelated.com/two-year-work-retrospective
Comment linking /two-year-work-retrospective
on “No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees”Submitted Two Year Work Retrospective as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI think there is this duality in SW development that some people tend to believe in, that there are two types of work, one highly creative, like product or architecture design, and then the mundane one, like coding and testing. (I actually realized this reading a recent HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25775872 ) I don't subscribe to this, I think the work is ultimately very similar in creativity (just…
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on “Maximizing Developer Effectiveness”Submitted How to Get a PageSpeed Boost by Ditching WordPress for Gatsby.js as a story · 1 points
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