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Steve Streeting
Personal blog · stevestreeting.comprogrammingstartups
Steve Streeting writes SteveStreeting.com, a personal blog at stevestreeting.com about programming and startups. Since 2008, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “The Interruptible Programmer (2010)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Steve Streeting's posts on game development and programmer productivity, such as his move from Unity to UE4 and "The Interruptible Programmer". Commenters cite them as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Interruptible Programmer (2010)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-13
- The interruptible programmer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-14
What Hacker News says?
He's using Unreal for his latest game: https://www.stevestreeting.com/2020/05/07/from-unity-to-ue4-...
Comment linking /2020/05/07/from-unity-to-ue4---part-1/
on “What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project”Submitted The interruptible programmer as a story · 132 points
HN discussionIt's not exactly hard to find people discussing different best practices and their own individual workflows in Mercurial, either[1]. The existence of these articles doesn't tell us anything negative about Mercurial, or Git, it merely tells us that these tools are powerful enough to be used for Real Work in Real Workflows, and that there are few things people love more than talking about their workflows. [1]: Random…
Comment linking /2010/04/22/mercurial-queues-just-clicked/
on “My Git Habits”Submitted The Interruptible Programmer (2010) as a story · 96 points
HN discussionGood point. This recent HN item speaks to that. http://www.stevestreeting.com/2010/09/04/work-2-0/ The interruptible programmer
Comment linking /2010/09/04/work-2-0/
on “How to Solve Hard Problem Sets Without Staying Up All Night”Submitted A custom Zigbee doorbell (2023) as a story · 74 points
HN discussionI semi-regularly refer colleagues to this article I read some years back "The Interruptible Programmer" - it argues that it's hard to stay in the zone, so instead accept that you're going to be interrupted and embrace it. https://www.stevestreeting.com/2010/09/04/work-2-0/
Comment linking /2010/09/04/work-2-0/
on “What's the best way to stay in focus mode at work?”Submitted My evolving view of open source licenses as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Work 2.0 – the interruptible programmer (2010) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back to Windows as a primary dev platform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coffee: A Journey as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted SteveStreeting.com » Timing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My UE4 VCS Setup – Gitea and Git and LFS and Locking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automating Incremental Nib Localization In Cocoa as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux Mint 22.3 on an Old MacBook Pro Nvidia GPU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choose your own environment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the idolatry of investors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scale isn’t everything as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mixing Open Source & Business as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook 'working' the masses now? as a story · 1 points
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