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Tim McNamara

Personal blog · tim.mcnamara.nz/postprogrammingcareer

Tim McNamara writes Tumblr, a personal blog at tim.mcnamara.nz about programming and career. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Spend your novelty budget on Rust”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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7HN people?
2020–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2022

Delighted by code, data and creativity. Author of Rust in Action. Founder of Accelerant (https://accelerant.dev)

Most-linked posts?

  1. Spend your novelty budget on Rust
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. tndl · 2020-08-12
    I'm in a similar situation to the original poster, and I've chosen Rust. Tim McNamara wrote a compelling post making the case for why Rust is a good choice for your 'novelty budget': https://tim.mcnamara.nz/post/621040767010504704/spend-your-n... . Rust has also made me a way better engineer in the time I've been learning it. I've used it for some dabbling in embedded dev, and the cortex-m support (especially for ST…

    Comment linking /post/621040767010504704/spend-your-novelty-budget-on-rust

    on “Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?”
  2. davidatbu · 2022-04-18

    Submitted 1x Programming as a story · 236 points

    HN discussion
  3. JoshTriplett · 2020-06-16
    > I have nothing against Rust but if I was at a startup I would save my innovation points for where they're mandatory An article published today, addressing that exact point: https://tim.mcnamara.nz/post/621040767010504704/spend-your-n...

    Comment linking /post/621040767010504704/spend-your-novelty-budget-on-rust

    on “How Rust Lets Us Monitor 30k API calls/min”
  4. JoshTriplett · 2020-06-16

    Submitted Spend your novelty budget on Rust as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. michalhosna · 2023-01-08

    Submitted Agile isn’t about speed, it’s about direction as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. lukastyrychtr · 2022-05-06

    Submitted Creating an Easy Mode for Rust as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. kylepdavis · 2022-02-11

    Submitted Rust Type Conversion (Part 1) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. hasheddan · 2022-10-29

    Submitted Programming Language Lifecycle as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. lukastyrychtr · 2021-03-13

    Submitted Calling a private Rust function from outside of its module as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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