If it wasn't for Jeff's recent posts I would not have known that HN even exists. I'm sure there are many more like me. Thanks for the welcome! I read a lot of

If it wasn't for Jeff's recent posts I would not have known that HN even exists. I'm sure there are many more like me. Thanks for the welcome! I read a lot of programming blogs and I'd say that the codinghorror content better than many. The size of his readership certainly bears that out. It's actually not really a programming blog anyway. It's mostly opinion pieces that are designed to provoke a response. One common response is that he's simply dismissed. Everyone's entitled to have their say.