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The Programming Butler is a personal blog at theprogrammingbutler.com about programming and career. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's older posts for personal material: one covers the author's experience with CPAP and BiPAP for sleep apnea, and another covers a 2011 Finish Weekend event in Ann Arbor.

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.

I am a geek by choice and a geek by trade. I live with my family in Northern California where we love to cook, explore, and enjoy life. I work at GitHub where I solve problems with software and buttle now and again.

What Hacker News says?

  1. After nearly 14 years of using a cpap ( https://theprogrammingbutler.com/blog/archives/2014/02/13/sl... ) and then bipap religiously I was able to switch away recently. All I do now is use now is a piece of kinesthetic tape to make sure my mouth stays closed and that somehow works. I’d just done another sleep study to see if I had options other than the bipap because it’s been filling me with air since I was intubat…

    Comment linking /blog/archives/2014/02/13/sleep-apnea-survivor/

    on “Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial”
  2. Submitted Being acquired doesn't have to suck as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  3. Here's the main site: https://www.finishweekend.com/ and a blog post about a previous weekend: http://theprogrammingbutler.com/blog/archives/2011/11/12/fin...

    Comment linking /blog/archives/2011/11/12/finish-weekend/

    on “Finish Weekend Ann Arbor”

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