Comment by DoreenMichele

I don't care one iota if she does or does not participate on HN or in any other community.

The only other post of hers I recall reading boiled down to her refusing to fix a thing at work that it was her responsibility to fix and wouldn't have taken very long, like a few minutes, and leaving it that way for six months, calling it "an experiment" to see if anyone else would fix it and then talking trash about everyone else at work when her boss finally told her to fix it already. It struck me as very unprofessional, childish and toxic.

She is the only woman that I'm aware of who blogs about programming. I'm not a programmer, so that might just be my ignorance showing. But my guess is that's the primary reason her writing shows up here so often, because it doesn't strike me as great writing overall and her attitude seems to be pretty toxic generally while she blames that on everyone else.

She could make a lot of the same points she makes without pissing all over everyone in the process. She could very reasonably say "I'm a woman in tech, so I deal with brogrammers 40+ hours a week and I have no patience left to do more of that in my off hours." She could say "Eh, different strokes for different folks. I share my stuff with people I enjoy talking with and I'm okay with that meaning it isn't out there in the ether for the whole world to access. We can't all be Linux."

She could make all the same choices she is currently making and describe them in her blog without gratuitously pissing all over a community that very likely accounts for a large share, perhaps even the vast majority, of her blog traffic.