2011
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,087 posts.
2012
2013
How many jobs really require college?
We send too many people to college and high school -- by factor of five
2014
Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google
I will do something I normally never do here, and make my first ever blog post on the topic of, long sigh: tech. I’ve already talked abou...
2015
One Thousand Dollars an Hour
Update: I've since adjusted my rate to $300/hr since I wanted to start taking clients. This crazy was designed to prevent getting work unless it...
2016
Always Do Extra
A simple rule that every good, veteran programmer seems to follow with respect to managing their time.
2017
Leaving Mozilla
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
2018
Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
We had interviewees use ChatGPT without their interviewer knowing. Here's what happened.
2019
The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review
I recently attended the Goatmire Elixir Conf and one of the standout talks for me was Saša Jurić’s “Tell Me a Story” . It was an incredible presentation that combined theatrical storytelling with practical technical advice. Saša performed parts of his talk in character, turning technical topics into a compelling…
2020
2021
What is expected of a engineering manager?
Husband, software engineer at Nubank , computer scientist, coffee taster, book reader, stand up coder
2022
You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown
Design greatness is defined not by fame or recognition, but by how invisibly and effectively it serves human needs.
2023
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How to write technical posts so people will read them (2019)
One of today’s best bloggers in the functional programming space is Chris Penner . Despite this, Chris is criminally underrated—nobody I talk to seems to know of his work. Go check him out as soon as you finish reading this post!
2026
Why I am leaving the best job I ever had
Earlier this summer, Matt Lauer asked Mary Barra, the CEO of GM, whether she could balance the demands of being a mom and being a CEO. The Atlantic asked similar questions of PepsiCo’s female CEO I…
2027
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The one interview question I always ask
I’ve just gotten past a peak interviewing period where I would interview 3-5 engineering and product management candidates every week. I’ve used this question for as long as I’ve …
2030
A Programmer's Loss of Identity
This is the follow-up to last year’s I’m an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don’t speak for me . In that essay, I tried to express why I was so agonized by the leaders in my industry doing a speedrun towards dystopia and how it all felt so divorced from what technology could, and should be…
2031
2032
Technical Debt Is Like a Tetris Game
Expressive code in C++
2033
Traps to Developers
HTML and CSS
2034
Salary Negotiations: What is Possible When There's no More Money
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2035
2036
The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source
For many years I was whole hog into the open-source movement and at the time I rarely wrote a stitch of code in my free time that didn’t find itself in a public Sourceforge/GCode/Github repo. 1 However, over time I came to learn that the burden that came with publicly offering code to the universe, to put it mildly…
2037
Feelings of guilt may signal leadership potential (2012)
Stanford GSB researchers find that how people respond to mistakes can be a "clue to who they are."
2038
2039
Products Over Projects
Projects are a popular way of organizing software efforts, but long-running product teams are often superior
2040
Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions
For the past 7+ years, I've been conducting a programming interview that has been a true personal favorite of mine. It was passed down to me from good friends (Jeremy Kaplan and Carl Sverre, and it was the latter whom I believe invented it). This interview has probably been