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William Gross
Personal blog · wgross.net/essaysprogrammingcareer
William Gross's personal blog at wgross.net covers programming and career. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Give away your code, but never your time”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link William Gross's essays on funding open-source work and on giving away code without giving away control. They cite them as related ideas and as the basis for a tool that locks GitHub and GitLab issues.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Give away your code, but never your time3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-10
- SPAs are harder and always will be (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-17
What Hacker News says?
I'm in the early stages of building some tools to automatically lock new issues in my own Open Source repos, and to give Patreon supporters automatic access to comment on locked issues. Anyone will be able to read existing Github/Gitlab issues, but only supporters will be able to join the conversation or file new issues. It's loosely based on some ideas that William Gross[0] and a few other sources have proposed. Yo…
Comment linking /essays/give-away-your-code-but-never-your-time
on “Recap of the `funding` experiment”Submitted Give away your code, but never your time as a story · 430 points
HN discussionRelated sentiments in http://wgross.net/essays/give-away-your-code-but-never-your-... .
Comment linking /essays/give-away-your-code-but-never-your-time
on “BuyLibre: Cooperative Ownership to Changes in Software”Submitted SPAs are harder and always will be (2013) as a story · 181 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spas Are Just Harder, and Always Will Be (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion