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The best programmers I know

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628 points kiyanwang | 1 comments | 09 Apr 25 06:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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dockerd ◴[09 Apr 25 10:40 UTC] No.43630691[source]▶
For those unable to open the link due to owner site being hit by Cloudflare limit, here's a link to web archive - https://web.archive.org/web/20250409082704/https://endler.de...
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lapcat ◴[09 Apr 25 12:47 UTC] No.43631455[source]▶
There's some irony, is there not, in presuming to be able to identify "the best programmers" when you've created a programming blog that completely falls down when it gets significant web traffic?
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udev4096 ◴[09 Apr 25 13:54 UTC] No.43632144[source]▶
Most developers are terrible at system administration which is quite disappointing and is one of the reason that the author uses Clownflare. Being able to maintain systems is as important as writing code
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ericrallen ◴[09 Apr 25 15:05 UTC] No.43632968[source]▶
This is kind of a ridiculous take.

Not going to speak for the author, but some of us just want to be able to write a blog post and publish it in our free time. We're not trying to "maintain systems" for fun.

Some of those posts get zero views, and some of them end up on the front page of Hacker News.

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1. udev4096 ◴[09 Apr 25 15:27 UTC] No.43633213[source]▶
I was talking about more than just a blog. It puts things into different perspective when you are writing a big program. For instance, you are tasked on creating a custom auth. Would you feel more comfortable after having used something like authentik or kanidm in the past or having no experience with it at all?