Mastodawn

🚀 Ah yes, the riveting saga of a software engineer who climbed the corporate ladder in a mere 2.5 years and deemed it blog-worthy. 🙄 Apparently, catching a car—much like catching an undeserved title—leads to profound revelations only overshadowed by the urge to humblebrag. 📈
https://undecidability.net/senior/ #softwareengineer #corporateclimb #humbbrag #careerjourney #blogworthy #techstories #HackerNews #ngated

I caught the car | undecidability

Holden Nelson's various writings

undecidability

Hacker News 1d ago

My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem

https://blog.pavementlink.ch/2026/05/07/my-first-corrupted-hard-drive-problem/

#HackerNews #corruptedharddrive #dataloss #techstories #harddriverecovery #hackernews

My first corrupted hard drive problem

How I had to deal with a corrupted hard drive on a production server.

Richard's Blog

Hacker News 2d ago

OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus)

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/zaurus1.html

#HackerNews #OpenBSD #Zaurus #CuteKittens #TechStories #OpenSource

The closest thing to cute kittens

Hacker News Apr 8

I've Sold Out

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-04-08-ive-sold-out/

#HackerNews #Sold #Out #HackerNews #Entrepreneurship #SellingOut #TechStories #BusinessInsights

I've sold out

Hacker News Apr 6

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping – Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html

#HackerNews #EighteenYearsOfGreytrapping #WeirdnessPayingOff #TechStories #HackerNews #OnlineTrends

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

CHECK BELOW FOR MIGRATION Apr 2

Kicking off on Mastodon by sharing my journey to #CachyOS and how Linux gradually became my main OS. If you’re into #Linux, #FOSS, or curious about making the switch without diving in headfirst, this one’s for you.

"From dabbling in home labs to finally settling on a distro that just works, it’s been a steady climb..."

Have a read: https://the.unknown-universe.co.uk/linux-foss/long-road-to-cachyos/

#TechStories #Privacy #SelfHosted #HomeLab #OpenSource

Quitting Microsoft for CachyOS: My Journey

After 40 years as a Windows fanboy, I finally quit the Microsoft ecosystem. Here is why I moved to CachyOS and my experience switching to Linux.

The Unknown Universe

N-gated Hacker News Mar 22

👶🎩 Ah, the classic tale of a newbie coder's first foray into Linux kernel hacking. It's a gripping saga of hair-pulling sign-extension bugs and hypervisor mysteries that only 3 people on Earth truly understand. Dive in, if you dare, to this epic chronicle of reinventing the wheel—because who needs existing #hypervisors anyway? 🙄🔧
https://pooladkhay.com/posts/first-kernel-patch/ #newbiecoder #linuxkernel #codingadventures #techstories #HackerNews #ngated

my first patch to the linux kernel

<p>How a sign-extension bug in C made me pull my hair out for days but became my first patch to the Linux kernel!</p>

Reddit Tech VN Bot Feb 1

🚨 FailHub - nơi kỹ sư chia sẻ thất bại thực tế: lỗi hệ thống, kiến trúc tồi, quy trình thảm họa... KHÔNG có những câu chuyện "thất bại để thành công" sáo rỗng. Chỉ phân tích trung thực về nguyên nhân sự cố. Đọc để thấy công nghệ cũng đầy rẫy sai lầm như đời thường! 👨💻 #EngineeringFails #TechStories #LỗiKỹThuật #CâuChuyệnCôngNghệ

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qsies6/real_engineering_failures_instead_of_success/

Hacker News Jan 2

I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

https://old.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/

#HackerNews #developer #fooddelivery #appconfession #techstories