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Thagomizer
Personal blog · thagomizer.com/blogprogrammingcareer
Thagomizer is a personal blog at thagomizer.com about programming and career. Since 2016, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Friction Logs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for the post 'Diversity is not a check box', which one commenter calls an excellent article. The other comment mentions Google Cloud and App Engine and does not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Where I blog about code, the tech industry, and managing in the tech industry.
Most-linked posts?
- Friction Logs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-11
- We don't do that here (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-27
What Hacker News says?
I'm the Ruby Developer Advocate for GCP. I've used App Engine Flex with Rails 5 on a couple projects recently. Nothing huge but one is in production (it is for a local non-profit). I've found it to be a great way to get things out the door quickly and I love the auto-scaling. It doesn't have all the magic of App Engine Standard and deploy times are slower than I'd like (~5 minutes). But I'm okay with that if I can u…
Comment linking /blog/2017/03/09/rails-on-app-engine.html
on “Google Cloud SQL for Postgres”Submitted We don't do that here (2017) as a story · 141 points
HN discussionSpecial thanks to @the_thagomizer for publishing her excellent article “Diversity is not a check box”. Prompted me to finally finish this article. http://www.thagomizer.com/blog/2016/08/12/diversity-is-not-a...
Comment linking /blog/2016/08/12/diversity-is-not-a-checkbox.html
on “Inclusion over diversity”Submitted ML Basics: K Nearest Neighbors in Ruby as a story · 83 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Don't Do That Here as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Friction Logs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted We don't do that here as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The magic phrase, “we don't do that here.” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Useful Org-Mode Features as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Friction Logs (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advanced friction logs: Empathy Sessions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Explanation of Markov Models Using Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussion