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The Minimalist Developer

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The Minimalist Developer is a personal blog at theminimalistdeveloper.com about programming and career. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Why everyone wants to get rid of software engineers?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2025

Software engineering, a bit of management, geek-outs, gadgets, some opinions, and all that good stuff

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why everyone wants to get rid of software engineers?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Why everyone wants to get rid of software engineers? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted The Illusion of Competence as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Why Everybody Wants to Get Rid of Software Developers? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Don't Put All Your Tokens in One Basket as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Is Implementing the ‘Repository’ Pattern Redundant When Using ORMs? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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