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WalkingRiver.com

Personal blog · walkingriver.comprogrammingcareer

WalkingRiver.com is a personal blog at walkingriver.com about programming and career. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “"Using .net Cost Me My Job" (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-18, and you can follow it by feed.

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8mentions?
5HN people?
2020–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as an example of a blog built from project notes kept as documentation for the author's own later reference. One commenter says that material was later used to publish books on Amazon.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The best software is both elegant and beautiful, and seldom what you expect.

Most-linked posts?

  1. "Using .net Cost Me My Job" (2020)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. walkingriver · 2020-11-21
    Most of my blog content ( https://walkingriver.com ) came from me keeping notes during projects. They are documentation for myself that I can refer to later. I have done that. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, I managed to scrape together enough content to publish a few books on Amazon ( https://amazon.com/author/mcallaghan ). So I would say, "yes."

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Does it make sense to write a blog in 2020?”
  2. nailer · 2024-03-12

    Submitted "Using .net Cost Me My Job" (2020) as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  3. saadalem · 2020-06-30

    Submitted Using .NET Cost Me My Job as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. walkingriver · 2020-10-16

    Submitted How do you feel about “exit paperwork?” Signing once nearly got me arrested as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. walkingriver · 2020-10-14

    Submitted Our software developers carried guns as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. ksec · 2024-08-08

    Submitted Hybrid Mobile Development at Disney as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. anupamchugh · 2022-07-12

    Submitted Confessions of a Reluctant Ionic-React Fan as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. walkingriver · 2020-11-09

    Submitted Fun and Bizarre eBook and Reader Giveaway as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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