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Redirecting... is a personal blog at talktotheduck.dev about programming and career. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “A startup nearly went bankrupt because of caching”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by one commenter as a counterpoint to a hiring article, for articles on recruiting a first developer advocate and the tension between tactics and strategy. Only one comment, which doesn't judge the writing.
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?
- A startup nearly went bankrupt because of caching3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-08
What Hacker News says?
Scraping is inherently fragile due to all the small changes that can happen to the data model as a website evolves. The important thing is to fix these things quickly. This article discusses a related approach of debugging such failures directly on the server: https://talktotheduck.dev/debugging-jsoup-java-code-in-produ... It's in Java (using JSoup) but the approach will work for Node, Python, Kotlin etc. The core c…
Comment linking /debugging-jsoup-java-code-in-production-using-lightrun
on “Web scraping via JavaScript runtime heap snapshots”Submitted Spring Remote Code Execution Vulnerability as a story · 18 points
HN discussionYep. You can't count on Google to be anything other than an advertising company and even then it's a pretty bad one at that e.g. https://talktotheduck.dev/production-horrors-handling-disast... Even search which used to be its crowning achievement isn't great for most terms. SEO dominates google completely.
Comment linking /production-horrors-handling-disasters-public-debrief
on “A practical guide to securing Google Workspace for a startup”Submitted A startup nearly went bankrupt because of caching as a story · 7 points
HN discussionVery well written article despite the fact that I completely disagree with the conclusions logic of the author. I'm on the "reading code" and having a more personal connection side of the road. Partially on the debugging aspect for some cases. Pretty much the process explained here: https://talktotheduck.dev/debugging-the-technical-interview-... The "write code" types of interviews fit for juniors who might not know…
Comment linking /debugging-the-technical-interview-methods-and-cheating
on “In defense of coding interviews”Submitted Debugging Tutorial 1 – Introduction: Conditional Breakpoints as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThey should have probably applied these tips: https://talktotheduck.dev/debugging-the-technical-interview-...
Comment linking /debugging-the-technical-interview-methods-and-cheating
on “My worst tech interview experience”Submitted We Are Developers Trip Largest Conference You Might Not Know as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think this is a matter for the interviewer to solve. Smart ones should take advantage of this situation and grab the better developers that don't pass those stupid interviews. I posted this in comments before since it pretty much echos my thoughts on the matter: https://talktotheduck.dev/debugging-the-technical-interview-...
Comment linking /debugging-the-technical-interview-methods-and-cheating
on “Tell HN: Stop Accepting Shitty Interviews”Submitted Production Horrors – Handling Disasters: Public Debrief as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI very much agree. But this is written in a somewhat "this is bad" style and misses the "you should do this, instead" part. This article contains both: https://talktotheduck.dev/debugging-the-technical-interview-...
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on “Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering”Submitted PSA: The Risks of Remote JDWP Debugging as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRecruiting is just fundamentaly broken in most companies. I wish more people would use this practice when hiring https://talktotheduck.dev/debugging-the-technical-interview-...
Comment linking /debugging-the-technical-interview-methods-and-cheating
on “Ask HN: Am I the only “unlucky” software engineer?”Pretty much the same conclusion here: https://talktotheduck.dev/debugging-the-technical-interview-...
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on “Include debugging in the interview process”We were on a $400 google gold support plan and got shafted regardless https://talktotheduck.dev/production-horrors-handling-disast... The fact that they have some person answer the phone doesn't mean they have to fix the problem.
Comment linking /production-horrors-handling-disasters-public-debrief
on “Do not use Digital Ocean for production”This article is a nice nuts and bolts discussion. However, for a different perspective, here's a couple of articles by experienced developer relations folks about that first hire and the tension between tactics and strategy, among other things. https://talktotheduck.dev/youre-doing-it-wrong-recruiting-a-... https://taylorbar.net/posts/recruiting-your-first-developer-...
Comment linking /youre-doing-it-wrong-recruiting-a-devrel
on “How do I hire a developer advocate?”I prefer this post which is more detailed: https://talktotheduck.dev/logging-best-practices-mdc-ingesti...
Comment linking /logging-best-practices-mdc-ingestion-and-scale
on “Logging Practices I Follow”