Stephanie Hurlburt
stephaniehurlburt.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2016
Stephanie Hurlburt, a graphics programmer, writes about Vulkan, texture compression, tech interviews, salaries, mentoring, and workplace health.
What HN saysCommenters recommend her lists of Vulkan tutorials and of engineers willing to mentor, and cite her post on tech interview experiences.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Beginner-Friendly Vulkan Tutorials4 people · 192 points · first shared 2017 · 35 comments on HN
- 2List of Engineers Willing to Mentor You4 people · 9 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3A Few Stories of Tech Interviews3 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 4A note on programmer salaries2 people · 241 points · first shared 2016 · 222 comments on HN
- 5Texture Compression is Changing2 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 6Warning signs of abusive companies2 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 7On Starting a Software Business1 people · 534 points · first shared 2017 · 145 comments on HN
- 8Burnout and Mental Health1 people · 330 points · first shared 2016 · 111 comments on HN
- 9A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle1 people · 270 points · first shared 2017 · 73 comments on HN
- 10How to organize a study group, book club, online group or event1 people · 218 points · first shared 2019 · 106 comments on HN
- 11Closed Source Engines Are a Big Risk1 people · 155 points · first shared 2016 · 67 comments on HN
- 12Casual Introduction to Low-Level Graphics Programming1 people · 137 points · first shared 2016 · 26 comments on HN
- 13Brain in a Jar1 people · 96 points · first shared 2017 · 34 comments on HN
- 14Resources for Learning Graphics Programming1 people · 69 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 15One Percent Stake1 people · 41 points · first shared 2017 · 60 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
modernerd · 2018-02-06
This is a great start — finding good mentors is too hard.
My favourites so far:
1. Stephanie Hurlburt has a list of developers willing to mentor others:
http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2016/11/14/list-of-engineers-willing…
Some resources from that list:
- https://ishansharma.github.io/twitter-mentors/
- https://mentorlist.herokuapp.com
2. I've used and enjoyed Codementor's “find an expert” for paid help:
https://www.codementor.io/experts
vehemos · 2018-03-07
Also in case anyone is going to suggest something project-like please something in the direction of HFT/OS/Systems related as opposed to game programming? There are loads of stuff out there for C++ related to game programming.
For OP:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide…
Also some C++ related YT channels such as TheChernoProject, CppCon etc
Following the respective reddit and slack communities is also extremely helpful.
Also get your hands dirty with this: https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos
or https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp
There is more but this should do.
Oh I almost forgot: https://ishansharma.github.io/twitter-mentors/
http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2016/11/14/list-of-engineers-willing…
https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/889004724669661184
Good Luck! :-)
fstephany · 2018-02-27
Stephanie Hurlburt has a good list: http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2017/7/14/beginner-friendly-vulkan-t…
Pombal · 2017-12-24
Have a look at this list, hope it helps! http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2017/7/14/beginner-friendly-vulkan-t…
stephenboyd · 2016-10-07
A former classmate of mine posted on her blog yesterday about some of her tech interview experiences. She didn't generalize about inclusive culture, but her perspective is enlightening.
http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2016/10/5/a-few-stories-of-tech-inte…
jvns · 2017-07-24
Dan Luu has a list of programming blogs you might like: https://danluu.com/programming-blogs/. The rest of his blog is good too!
a few of my favorite blogs:
- http://blog.acolyer.org for fantastic daily summaries of CS papers.
- http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/ -- she has a business creating a new compression algorithm and I love reading about it
- https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ is pure gold for weird debugging stories
- https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/ is always a fun read
- http://wingolog.org/ on building compilers
- http://composition.al/blog -- Lindsey Kuper on her programming languages research
- aphyr's blog on distributed systems, of course
- https://charity.wtf/
- http://www.pgbovine.net/writings.htm -- Philip Guo is a CS professor whose blog on his experiences in academia I really like
- http://whilefalse.blogspot.com by Camille Fournier, mostly on engineering management
- http://larahogan.me/blog/ by Lara Hogan, on engineering management
Also I think this comment from Dan's blog (https://danluu.com/about/) is very true and important:
> I view that as a sign there’s a desperate shortage of understandable explanation of technical topics. There’s nothing here that most of my co-workers don’t know (with the exception of maybe three or four posts where I propose novel ideas). It’s just that they don’t blog and I do. I’m not going to try to convince you to start writing a blog, since that has to be something you want to do, but I will point out…