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Marianne Bellotti
Personal blog · bellmar.medium.comprogrammingwriting
Marianne Bellotti's personal blog at bellmar.medium.com covers programming and writing. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Yes, You Can Charge More”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Marianne Bellotti's Medium posts on legacy systems, software architecture, analog computing and formal verification, and a series on writing a programming language.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Yes, You Can Charge More3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-03
- All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (2019)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-30
- Come Break My Compiler2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-08
- Toxic and Woke Engineering Orgs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-15
- Guess What? Analog Computing May Be Coming Back2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-30
- Five Koans of Software Architecture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-15
- Can You Use Formal Verification on a TableTop Game?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-10
- Work Somewhere Dysfunctional2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-17
- Can You Use Formal Verification on a Table Top Game? (Solutions)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-14
What Hacker News says?
I'm a huge fan of Bellotti's writing on the web ( https://bellmar.medium.com/ ), so this is definitely high on my to-read list.
Comment linking /
on “A Review of “Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems””Submitted All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (2019) as a story · 361 points
HN discussionsequel of https://bellmar.medium.com/can-you-use-formal-verification-o... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30977062 with 0 comment)
Comment linking /can-you-use-formal-verification-on-a-tabletop-game-the-challenge-c0536fbe30e0
on “Can You Use Formal Verification on a Table Top Game? (Solutions)”Submitted Hunting Tech Debt via Org Charts as a story · 250 points
HN discussionGift link: https://bellmar.medium.com/five-koans-of-software-architectu...
Comment linking /five-koans-of-software-architecture-f9f7305598c2?sk=v2%2Fb732e0d1-f9d3-4e4b-82ad-699371a80769
on “Five Koans of Software Architecture (2022)”Submitted Programming in Z3 by learning to think like a compiler as a story · 179 points
HN discussionRelated: https://bellmar.medium.com/guess-what-analog-computing-may-b... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34585958 (99 points | 2 months ago | 84 comments) --- https://semiengineering.com/can-analog-make-a-comeback/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32106546 (130 points | 8 months ago | 125 comments)
Comment linking /guess-what-analog-computing-may-be-coming-back-280f8c0329a8
on “The Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing”Submitted Three questions to turn the table during technical interviews as a story · 164 points
HN discussionNice that this is now real! I followed along with Marianne Writes a Programming Language [0] which I thoroughly enjoyed, and it's cool to see this come to fruition. [0]: https://bellmar.medium.com/marianne-writes-a-programming-lan...
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on “Come Break My Compiler”Submitted The Death of Process as a story · 163 points
HN discussionSubmitted To boost your intelligence, learn how to self-soothe as a story · 156 points
HN discussionSubmitted Work Somewhere Dysfunctional as a story · 110 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter as a story · 95 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computer science is a liberal arts degree as a story · 92 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Unreasonableness of Math Is Context Independence as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning Almost Nothing About LLVM as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted The deification of Alan Turing as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Teams Are Just Networks as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dockerizing a Programming Language as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Three Levels of Software Safety as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Using “Real Time” Wrong as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Koans of Software Architecture as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Is This Idiot Running My Engineering Org? as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Year of Writing Fault as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yes, You Can Charge More as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can You Use Formal Verification on a Table Top Game? (Solutions) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Koans of Software Architecture (2022) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking Your Software Performance Review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Paradigms as Language Destiny as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intelligence (artificial or otherwise) Might Not Exist as a story · 2 points
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