10 stories tagged personal-story, newest first.
854 points by gavinray | 384 comments
A personal blog post by developer Gavin Ray about rebuilding his life and career after addiction, imprisonment, and a felony conviction.
1122 points by JeremyTheo | 978 comments
Personal blog post by Jeremy Theocharis recounting a Deutsche Bahn train journey gone wrong, which he likens to being kidnapped, and the 1.50 EUR compensation he received.
785 points by dvektor | 491 comments
Turso blog post by Preston Thorpe describing how he came to work on database software while incarcerated, part 2 of his story.
1041 points by mattl | 264 comments
Blog post by a recently retired Apple employee recounting how he briefly had the [email protected] address and received a 'Great idea, thank you' email from Steve Jobs.
461 points by goldenskye | 226 comments
A blog post on Old Vintage Computing Research recounting an April Fools prank the author played at his first university database programming job.
1399 points by switowski | 395 comments
A blog post by Sebastian Witowski recounting how his 2020 side project earned over $15,000 but became a maintenance burden he grew to hate.
731 points by omnibrain | 325 comments
A Funranium Labs blog post by Phil B recounting how he sustained a laser eye injury.
543 points by kickofline | 194 comments
Ben Borgers' blog post about buying 180 forks and donating them to his college dining hall, which kept running out of forks every evening.
1060 points by bonyt | 308 comments
A personal blog post recounting the true story of debugging a home Wi-Fi connection that only worked when it was raining, written for April Cools Club.
790 points by low_tech_love | 314 comments
A personal blog post by Preston Thorpe, an incarcerated software developer in Maine, describing how he became a programmer and open source contributor while in prison.