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the scapegoat dev
Personal blog · the.scapegoat.dev · on HN as larveprogrammingwritingphilosophy
the scapegoat dev is a personal blog at the.scapegoat.dev about programming, writing and philosophy. Since 2022, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “LLMs will fundamentally change software engineering”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-07, and you can follow it by feed.
I like 🖥 computers, and I like 📝 writing about them! I also have 🧠 an Obsidian vault where I dump most of my notes. I make 🎵 music as slono. I like 🎨 drawing and 🖊 handwriting too!
Most-linked posts?
- LLMs will fundamentally change software engineering3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-03-22
- Having a Creative Practice as a Programmer3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-28
- I still love PHP and JavaScript3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-02
- Writing made me a better programmer2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-05
- Curiosity as Tourism2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-08
- Yagni philosophy is reactionary (2023)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-26
- Embedded development is not like web development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-05
- Debugging Tips for Embedded and Distributed Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-03
- Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-10
- LLMs are a revolution in open source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-13
What Hacker News says?
my personal favourite: seeing the foldable (a monoid with two types, kind of) in event driven systems means you can model a lot of your embedded software / web applications as a set of functional state/event reducing functions, and build a clean system right from the get go. Seeing the functors in there tells you which part of the state can be split, parallelized or batched for performance or modularity). Again, the…
Comment linking /embedded-programming-is-like-web-development/
on “Why I am learning category theory”Submitted I still love PHP and JavaScript as a story · 427 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong” as a story · 249 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician as a story · 217 points
HN discussionSubmitted I still love PHP and JavaScript (2022) as a story · 124 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedded programming is like web development as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being Arrogantly Ignorant as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diagrams are the ultimate engineering tool as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yagni philosophy is reactionary (2023) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I am learning category theory as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing made me a better programmer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slowing Down in the Age of Coding Agents as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs – a paradigm shift for the pragmatic programmer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedded development is not like web development as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disability, privilege, tone-policing and Mastodon as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Curiosity as Tourism as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging Tips for Embedded and Distributed Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Love PHP and JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From prompt and pray to prompt engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs Are Kryptonite for Legacy Code (But Don't Let Them Touch It) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My creative software design process as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs will fundamentally change software engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The GPT Quine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Knowledge's Shape and Function as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning and Practicing Abstraction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Curiosity as Tourism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedded development is not like web development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing made me a better engineer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing made me a better engineer as a story · 2 points
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