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Vincit
Company blog · vincit.fi/en/blogprogrammingweb
Vincit is the company blog at vincit.fi, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Software development and screen readers at 450 words per minute”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post by a blind software developer about his coding setup, including screen readers and the speech speed he works at (450 words per minute). It is cited for accessibility advice for programmers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Vincit is a Nordic digital business partner focusing on commercial solutions, enterprise platforms, and data & AI. We turn digital into business results by combining leading platforms and tailored solutions.
Most-linked posts?
- Software development and screen readers at 450 words per minute6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-08-28
- Software development and screen readers at 450 words per minute5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-01-28
- Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-28
- Empty Promises and Other Heresy,how programming in Clojure made me better person2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-30
- Software development 450 words per minute2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-25
What Hacker News says?
Sorry to hear about what's happening to you. Read once about this guy who's using screen reader to code: https://www.vincit.fi/en/software-development-450-words-per-... One of the interesting things here is the mention of web frontend frameworks which may make the frontend work possible even without seeing the frontend. Hope you'll get through the life change. Take care.
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on “Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?”Submitted Software development and screen readers at 450 words per minute as a story · 416 points
HN discussionI don't know if this is helpful to you, but recently I stumbled across this[1] post by a blind developer. He's touching briefly on his setup of choice and what tools he chose and why. [1] https://www.vincit.fi/en/software-development-450-words-per-... I wish you the best of luck.
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on “Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?”Submitted Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017) as a story · 262 points
HN discussionhttps://www.vincit.fi/en/software-development-450-words-per-...
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on “Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?”Submitted Software development 450 words per minute as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's a cool story, from a few years ago, that I heard about here: https://www.vincit.fi/fi/software-development-450-words-per-...
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on “Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?”Submitted Suck less: A quick introduction to accessibility as a story · 3 points
HN discussionVincit | Location: USA & Finland | Full-Time | Remote/Hybrid Welcome | Vincit is a global custom software development and design agency that creates digital services and software applications from idea to market. Focusing on providing best-in-class service with cutting-edge technologies to deliver web, mobile and embedded applications, our long-term strategy is to focus on actions that make employees and clients hap…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted Empty Promises and Other Heresy,how programming in Clojure made me better person as a story · 3 points
HN discussionnot exactly true. See https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/04/12/advantages-of-bein... or https://www.vincit.fi/en/blog/software-development-450-words...
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on “GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged”Submitted A case for FIXMEs in production code as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>2x is a fashion statement The top 2 voted comments including yours made me understand for the first time that some people hearing others talk about "2x benefits" perceive it as silly superhuman braggadocio. (Maybe the "2x" does sound like Patrick Bateman's American Psycho morning routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjKNbfA64EE ) Yep, I understand what your humor is trying to do. As counterpoint, the blind have…
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on “Watching video twice at 2x can benefit learning better than once at normal speed”Submitted Moron.js: A new ORM for Node.js as a story · 3 points
HN discussionVincit | Location: USA & Finland | Full-Time | Remote/Hybrid Welcome | Vincit is a global custom software development and design agency that creates digital services and software applications from idea to market. Focusing on providing best-in-class service with cutting-edge technologies to deliver web, mobile and embedded applications, our long-term strategy is to focus on actions that make employees and clients hap…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)”Submitted Empty Promises and Other Heresy as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>Ask anyone who relies on accessibility features An article written by a blind programmer[1] was posted on HN a while ago, and he said he uses Notepad++ because it's a native applications and plays nice with screen reader. [1] https://www.vincit.fi/en/blog/software-development-450-words...
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on “Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps”Submitted Software development and screen readers at 450 words per minute as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI onced listened in and got nothing. Found a claims of 300 words per minute [0] and 450 wpm [1], where normal speech is 150 wpm. So, 3x should be achievable with some training. [0] https://webaim.org/techniques/screenreader/ [1] https://www.vincit.fi/en/blog/software-development-450-words...
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on “People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts”Submitted Blind software development at 450 words per minute as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCheck this out: https://www.vincit.fi/en/blog/software-development-450-words...
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on “Ask HN: How should a programming language accommodate disabled programmers?”Submitted Effortless eager loading and nested inserts with objection.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis post is by a guy who is a blind and works as a backend web developer: https://www.vincit.fi/fi/software-development-450-words-per-...
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on “Ask HN: Webdev with poor/deteriorating vision. What can I pivot into?”Submitted Introducing moron.js – a new ORM for Node.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNot first-hand, but I found this fascinating: https://www.vincit.fi/en/blog/software-development-450-words...
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on “Ask HN: How hard is it for blind people to code?”
