Paul Boyd
pboyd.io · Personal blog · on HN since 2019
Paul Boyd, a software engineer with over 15 years of experience, writes about programming practice, passwords, UDP, regex, and working life.
What HN saysThe only comment is the author's own work-seeking post, so HN links it for his posts on security and programming practices.
15HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1How Not to Store Passwords5 people · 14 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 2An Experiment on Code Structure2 people · 87 points · first shared 2019 · 59 comments on HN
- 3What Is UDP?2 people · 6 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 4At <company>, we are family2 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 5The Cargo Cult of Good Code2 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 6The Regex [,-.]1 people · 46 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 7You're Not a 10x Programmer1 people · 38 points · first shared 2021 · 43 comments on HN
- 8The day I wiped a production database table1 people · 25 points · first shared 2022 · 9 comments on HN
- 9The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server1 people · 13 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 10How to avoid one C++ foot gun1 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · 3 comments on HN
- 11Redefining Go Functions1 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 12A simple case for unit tests1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 13Limits of Programmer Productivity: A lesson from Fred Brooks on development env1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14Back to Basics with the Apple II1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 15Text Encoding: That Thing You Were Trying to Avoid1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
pboyd2 · 2023-07-03
SEEKING WORK | Raleigh, NC, US | Remote
My name is Paul Boyd, I am a software engineer who has been building customer-facing products and backend software for over 15 years. My goal to deliver functional products that meet business needs and I am willing to use any tools that accomplish that. However, my strengths primarily lie in developing web backends, particularly in Go.
Technologies: Go, Python, AWS, GCP, Docker, and plenty else over the years.
Email: [email protected]
Web: https://pboyd.io
Resume: Available on request
GitHub: https://github.com/pboyd