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Stephanie Hurlburt

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Stephanie Hurlburt's personal blog at stephaniehurlburt.com covers programming and career. Since 2016, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Beginner-Friendly Vulkan Tutorials”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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43mentions?
18HN people?
2016–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 20 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link her blog for curated lists of beginner-friendly graphics and programming resources and mentor directories, and for interview experience stories. One commenter also enjoys her posts on her compression algorithm business.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Beginner-Friendly Vulkan Tutorials
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-07-15
  2. List of Engineers Willing to Mentor You
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-11-16
  3. A Few Stories of Tech Interviews
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-06
  4. Warning Signs of Abusive Companies and People
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-16
  5. Texture Compression is Changing
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-15
  6. A note on programmer salaries
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. Also in case anyone is going to suggest something project-like please something in the direction of HFT/OS/Systems related as opposed to game programming? There are loads of stuff out there for C++ related to game programming. For OP: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-... Also some C++ related YT channels such as TheChernoProject, CppCon etc Following the respective reddit and slack communi…

    Comment linking /blog/2016/11/14/list-of-engineers-willing-to-mentor-you

    on “Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++?”
  2. Submitted On Starting a Software Business as a story · 534 points

    HN discussion
  3. jvns · 2017-07-24Recommends
    Dan Luu has a list of programming blogs you might like: https://danluu.com/programming-blogs/ . The rest of his blog is good too! a few of my favorite blogs: - http://blog.acolyer.org for fantastic daily summaries of CS papers. - http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/ -- she has a business creating a new compression algorithm and I love reading about it - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ is pure gold for weird debugging st…

    Comment linking /blog/

    on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?”
  4. Submitted Burnout and Mental Health as a story · 330 points

    HN discussion
  5. fstephany · 2018-02-27Recommends
    Stephanie Hurlburt has a good list: http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2017/7/14/beginner-friendl...

    Comment linking /blog/2017/7/14/beginner-friendly-vulkan-tutorials

    on “Vulkan is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple”
  6. Submitted A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle as a story · 270 points

    HN discussion
  7. modernerd · 2018-02-06Recommends
    This is a great start — finding good mentors is too hard. My favourites so far: 1. Stephanie Hurlburt has a list of developers willing to mentor others: http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2016/11/14/list-of-enginee... Some resources from that list: - https://ishansharma.github.io/twitter-mentors/ - https://mentorlist.herokuapp.com 2. I've used and enjoyed Codementor's “find an expert” for paid help: https://www.codem…

    Comment linking /blog/2016/11/14/list-of-engineers-willing-to-mentor-you

    on “Show HN: Ask a Dev”
  8. Submitted A note on programmer salaries as a story · 237 points

    HN discussion
  9. Pombal · 2017-12-24Recommends
    Have a look at this list, hope it helps! http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2017/7/14/beginner-friendl...

    Comment linking /blog/2017/7/14/beginner-friendly-vulkan-tutorials

    on “AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan”
  10. Submitted How to organize a study group, book club, online group or event as a story · 218 points

    HN discussion
  11. stephenboyd · 2016-10-07Recommends
    A former classmate of mine posted on her blog yesterday about some of her tech interview experiences. She didn't generalize about inclusive culture, but her perspective is enlightening. http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2016/10/5/a-few-stories-of...

    Comment linking /blog/2016/10/5/a-few-stories-of-tech-interviews

    on “Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture”
  12. Submitted Beginner-Friendly Vulkan Tutorials as a story · 171 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Closed Source Engines Are a Big Risk as a story · 155 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Casual Introduction to Low-Level Graphics Programming as a story · 137 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Brain in a Jar as a story · 96 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Resources for Learning Graphics Programming as a story · 69 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted One Percent Stake as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Beginner-Friendly Vulkan Tutorials as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted List of Engineers Willing to Mentor You as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted A Note on Programmer Salaries as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted List of Engineers Willing to Mentor You as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Referrals in the Game Industry as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Business Advice Braindump as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Guide to Running Technology Workshops as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted The Story of Too Many Startups as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted A Taste of Fourier Transforms and JPEG Compression as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted A Few Stories of Tech Interviews as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Anxiety and Coding as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Entrepreneur Interviews: Starting a Hardware Business While Employed as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Don't Use the Word Genius as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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