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Austin Z. Henley

web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh

Popular posts: 17
Total points: 6,808
HN comments: 3,250
Rank: #139 personal

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Software Engineering 14 Tools & Productivity 4 Life, Learning & Writing 4 Career & Management 4 Design & UX 3 Programming Languages 2

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Challenging projects every programmer should try

2019911 points297 commentscited by 3Software Engineering details

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Why I prefer making useless stuff

2021772 points270 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

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More challenging projects every programmer should try

2020757 points223 comments Software Engineering details

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When users never use the features they asked for

2021583 points219 comments Tech Industry & Business details

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Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?

2021523 points408 comments Tools & Productivity details

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Books I recommend to my software engineering students

2020411 points116 comments Career & Management details

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Lessons from my PhD

2021403 points130 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

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“This project will only take 2 hours”

2021398 points271 comments Career & Management details

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What’s wrong with computational notebooks?

2020377 points221 comments Databases & Data details

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Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t

2021341 points322 comments Web & Frontend details

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Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler

2020256 points44 comments Programming Languages details

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Hey Dropbox, why can't I compare file versions like this?

2020245 points130 comments Tools & Productivity details

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All my career rejections

2021228 points212 comments Career & Management details

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Progress bars still lie

2020201 points227 comments Design & UX details

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Python strings are immutable, but only sometimes

2021174 points90 comments Programming Languages details

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A theory of how developers seek information

2021121 points42 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

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Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: object dictionaries

2019107 points28 comments Software Engineering details