[rowanmanning]

lol it's nice to see Hacker News is still a bastion of reasoned communication and friendly discourse between tech people. I should really log in more.

I built Joblint literally 10 years ago as a fun side project. I was fed up with a spate of really terrible job ads and decided to write something to help me as an engineer vet whether I wanted to work at a company.

It's not a solid tool, it doesn't represent the way I'd build things now, and it codifies my fairly limited view of what made a bad job when I was a bright-eyed 20-something. I should probably add a note to the repo and site to express this but I'm always surprised when it gets dug up tbh.

If I were building it again then yeah it'd spot a lot more issues, it wouldn't be built using a massive RegExp , and it'd probably go harder on trying to spot red flags around homophobia and racism. I'm sure some of the foaming gammons here on HN would be overjoyed.

Anyway, see you all in another 10 years. Lots of love

[dotcode]

But Rowan why didn't joblint prevent the outbreak of war in Ukraine? I see this as a major failing, and really speaks to the nature of your character.

[ctvo]

> lol it's nice to see Hacker News is still a bastion of reasoned communication and friendly discourse between tech people. I should really log in more

> ...

> I'm sure some of the foaming gammons here on HN would be overjoyed.

The comments here don't feel that out of line that you need to be this defensive / thin skinned. It's an interesting idea, and worth expanding on, even if it's been languishing.

[Nekobai]

> The comments here don't feel that out of line that you need to be this defensive / thin skinned.

It's not the first time that this tool is discussed and, unfortunately, looking at the comments made in the past, I would definitely consider them out of line.

So I'm not surprised that the parent poster feels like that about this place.

[eindiran]

Over half of the comments in this thread are exceedingly negative and some are claiming it's racist satire. It's fairly out-of-line, and as is often the case the HN mob is in the wrong.