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.
18HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    Beginner-Friendly Vulkan Tutorials
    4 people · 192 points · first shared 2017 · 35 comments on HN
  2. 2
    List of Engineers Willing to Mentor You
    4 people · 9 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
  3. 3
    A Few Stories of Tech Interviews
    3 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
  4. 4
    A note on programmer salaries
    2 people · 241 points · first shared 2016 · 222 comments on HN
  5. 5
    Texture Compression is Changing
    2 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
  6. 6
    Warning signs of abusive companies
    2 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
  7. 7
    On Starting a Software Business
    1 people · 534 points · first shared 2017 · 145 comments on HN
  8. 8
    Burnout and Mental Health
    1 people · 330 points · first shared 2016 · 111 comments on HN
  9. 9
    A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle
    1 people · 270 points · first shared 2017 · 73 comments on HN
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    Closed Source Engines Are a Big Risk
    1 people · 155 points · first shared 2016 · 67 comments on HN
  12. 12
    Casual Introduction to Low-Level Graphics Programming
    1 people · 137 points · first shared 2016 · 26 comments on HN
  13. 13
    Brain in a Jar
    1 people · 96 points · first shared 2017 · 34 comments on HN
  14. 14
    Resources for Learning Graphics Programming
    1 people · 69 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
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    One Percent Stake
    1 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! :-)
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…

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