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Tom Gamon
Personal blog · tomgamon.com/postsprogrammingcareer
Tom Gamon's personal blog at tomgamon.com covers programming and career. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Programming Is a Losers Game”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-29, and you can follow it by feed.
I am a software engineer based in Melbourne, Australia.
Most-linked posts?
- Programming Is a Losers Game6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-09-08
- Clarity Is an Underrated Skill2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-17
- Is it morally wrong to write inefficient code?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-04
- Zoom, Humming and Rough Consensus2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-07
What Hacker News says?
Big fan of Tom Gamon's Programming is a Losers Game (Sept 2020)[1]. Tom's short post was a very welcome introduction to the matter for me, very open ended, & Ben Hosking here elaborates much more clearly specific concerns & outlooks. [1] https://tomgamon.com/posts/a-losers-game/ Both Ben in this "Software" and Tom Gamon in "Programming" anchor their arguments to Charles Ellis, & his example of tennis as a game where…
Comment linking /posts/a-losers-game/
on “Software development is a loser’s game”Submitted What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead as a story · 201 points
HN discussionThere was a related article that some people here might prefer. It was about programming in particular, and was also a bit more precise. "Programming is a loser's game" https://tomgamon.com/posts/a-losers-game/ (reactions at https://lobste.rs/s/iqctuy/programming_is_losers_game ).
Comment linking /posts/a-losers-game/
on “You’re Only as Good as Your Worst Day”Submitted Is it morally wrong to write inefficient code? as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Is a Losers Game as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clarity Is an Underrated Skill as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Is a Loser's Game as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Is a Loser's Game as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Is a Losers Game as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Semantic Versioning for Teams as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it morally wrong to write inefficient code? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't marry your design after the first date as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zoom, Humming and Rough Consensus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Praise of Inefficient Teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can turn the oven down as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clarity Is an Underrated Skill as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A dumb tool for finding superflous indexes in Rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zoom, Humming and Rough Consensus as a story · 1 points
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