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Henry Black

@henryblack.bsky.social

9.5 fingered software engineer. Dad to Mango, a Colombian street dog. Interested in tech and travel. Used to be an Investment Consultant. ๐Ÿ’พ Full Stack Engineer ๐Ÿ“ˆ CFA Charterholder ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด B2 Spanish speaker

45 Followers  |  178 Following  |  29 Posts  |  Joined: 28.04.2023  |  2.4737

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Love this

09.07.2025 01:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mine is the same.

My "Following" feed is the only useful one, the rest are just full of angry people and I am not interested in that

07.07.2025 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Green is my fav

07.07.2025 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great to read as a soon to be Dad. Congrats on 9 months

05.07.2025 22:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is awesome, thanks for sharing!

03.07.2025 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So nice!

30.05.2025 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same experience. There are a lot of angry people here

29.05.2025 15:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Awesome!

29.05.2025 15:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Donโ€™t forget the 15 years in Marketing! ๐Ÿ˜‚

Yeah perhaps itโ€™s an account takeover. Or someone decided to karma farm. Either way, it sucks and has made me more skeptical of what I read on Hacker News which, until now, had felt like a pocket of the internet where I could get genuine opinions

27.04.2025 00:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The comment was flagged but another user quotes the bit with the prompt here - news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4361...

Itโ€™s sad/dystopic to see people genuinely replying to slop accounts

26.04.2025 23:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have noticed slop on Hacker news too

E.g. this account news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=g...

All of their responses contain an anecdote related to their โ€œpersonal experienceโ€ in whatever the topic is.

I wouldnโ€™t have noticed had one comment not included part of their prompt

26.04.2025 23:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I made a "Tech People from Twitter" list so you don't have to spend ages searching like I did!

bsky.app/profile/henr...

31.10.2024 17:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Awesome ๐ŸŽ‰

30.10.2024 20:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love it

30.10.2024 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great idea. Can you share the files?

15.05.2023 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

- Lessons of History by William Durant (incredible sweeping history of the world and I hate "history" books - only 100 pages)

- Three Body Problem series (book 1 is ok, book 2 and 3 are amazing)

- Project Hail Mary

09.05.2023 10:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was like "fine then, don't show us the code" ๐Ÿ˜‚

28.04.2023 11:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Totally missed it - what happened?

28.04.2023 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I normally post about software engineering but I love to tell this story too much not to have it on here

28.04.2023 09:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mango ๐Ÿฅญ Back in April 2019, my wife and I were on holiday in Cartagena, Colombia when a sick and frail dog came and sat under our sun lounger. This is a little story (in pictures) about our gorgeous dog Mango.

For more pics and the full story, check out the post on my site

https://henryblack.co/articles/mango

28.04.2023 09:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nowadays she is happy and healthy with a penchant for chasing squirrels

28.04.2023 09:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We have since moved back to London where she has fit right in

28.04.2023 09:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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She quickly forgot she was a street dog and settled into her new life

28.04.2023 09:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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She needed a cone for the first 6 months to stop her itching, and little jumper to keep her warm until she put some weight on

28.04.2023 09:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We needed to get her home to Bogotรก, but she was too ill to fly so our only option was a 28-hour bus

28.04.2023 09:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It was hit and miss as to whether she would make it so we extended our trip and hoped for the best.

Once she was strong enough, we quickly found out that she loved cuddles

28.04.2023 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We knew she would die if we left her so we set off to take the saddest dog in the world to the vets

28.04.2023 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Back in April 2019, my wife and I were on holiday in Cartagena, Colombia when a sick and frail dog came and sat under our sun lounger.

So here is a little story (in pictures) about our gorgeous dog Mango:

28.04.2023 09:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Tanner's quality and devx, coming to a form near you

28.04.2023 08:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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