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Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by exadeci »

brokenmachine wrote: post #237
limedaring wrote: post #129

Some amazing non-male developers: — Jen Simmons: http://labs.jensimmons.com/ — Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/ — Lea Verou: http://lea.verou.me/ — Mina Markham: http://mina.codes/ — Sara Soueidan: https://sarasoueidan.com/articles/ — Sarah Mei: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/ — Ana Tudor: https://thebabydino.github.io/ — Anna Debenham: http://www.maban.co.uk/

> non-male In what way are the genitals of a programming blog author relevant?

I had the same reaction.

Women in IT talk about how hard it is for them not to be judged by their gender but by their skills and yet many of them promote their gender as if it's more important than the skills.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by yup21 »

limedaring wrote: post #228
jMyles wrote: post #190

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Hola limedaring. You rock. Thanks for adding this specifically non-male list. A shame you're being downvoted. See you at PyCon?

Here's hoping! Travel wise it might be hard — all my sessions were denied this year so it's a lot harder to attend. But still might happen. :)

it's probably 'cause you suck at your job and your genitals don't matter anymore.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by joe563323 »

brokenmachine wrote: post #238
joe563323 wrote: post #210

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Jeff Atwood is not a serious programmer. He writes stories.

What's wrong with stories?

Nothing wrong. But there is always a doubt(some brain cycles always being spent) while reading the experience of the stories since the author is not hard core tech guy.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by joe563323 »

mschaef wrote: post #78
theparanoid wrote: post #6

Fabrice Bellard, http://www.bellard.org

Seconded. This developer has an absolutely amazing output and corpus of works.

very true. I just wish he gives some video interviews. Just would love to watch such an amazing productive guy.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by [deleted] »

caleblloyd wrote: post #74

Brad Fitzpatrick - https://bradfitz.com/ - Started and sold LiveJournal, wrote memcached, works on Golang at Google now. Always enjoy his talks on YouTube. My favorite part is that he doesn't come off as super serious so I find subtle humor in his delivery. In one of his videos where he talks about HTTP/2, he says "HTTP/2 is just supposed to be a better wire format for HTTP, so it's not that interesting". In an earli…

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Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by [deleted] »

hackerkid wrote: post #139

* Feross Aboukhadijeh ( https://github.com/feross ) * James Halliday ( https://github.com/substack ) * Paul Irish ( https://github.com/paulirish ) * Addy Osmani ( https://github.com/addyosmani ) * Tim Abbott ( https://github.com/timabbott ) * Zach Holman ( https://github.com/holman ) * Jessica McKellar ( https://github.com/jesstess ) * TJ Holowaychuk ( https://github.com/tj ) * Jeremy Ashkenas ( https://github.com/ja…

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Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by grzm »

[deleted] wrote: post #246
hackerkid wrote: post #139

* Feross Aboukhadijeh ( https://github.com/feross ) * James Halliday ( https://github.com/substack ) * Paul Irish ( https://github.com/paulirish ) * Addy Osmani ( https://github.com/addyosmani ) * Tim Abbott ( https://github.com/timabbott ) * Zach Holman ( https://github.com/holman ) * Jessica McKellar ( https://github.com/jesstess ) * TJ Holowaychuk ( https://github.com/tj ) * Jeremy Ashkenas ( https://github.com/ja…

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Instead of sniping at others' lists, why not contribute your own?

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by grzm »

grzm wrote: post #179
dustingetz wrote: post #175

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Sure, there's a couple in this post: http://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/ Humans think in language and as such the languages we use shape the ideas we can have, and as our ideas evolve we build upon old languages with new languages to express new ideas that old languages lacked the necessary atoms.

Okay. I think we just have different expectations of the word "unthinkable".

This reads snarkier than intended. I appreciate Hickey and Nolen and the work they've done a lot.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by wingerlang »

exadeci wrote: post #241
brokenmachine wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> non-male In what way are the genitals of a programming blog author relevant?

I had the same reaction. Women in IT talk about how hard it is for them not to be judged by their gender but by their skills and yet many of them promote their gender as if it's more important than the skills.

While the person writing the post pointed it out, only one of the blogs seemed to be about her gender* while the others didn't even mention it as far as I saw.

* http://mina.codes/# (extremely so, if I may add)

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