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Our Magazine

HACKER BITS is the monthly magazine that gives you the hottest technology and startup stories straight from Hacker News. We select from the top voted stories for you and publish them in an easy-to-read magazine format.

Our Contributors

(just a few)

  • Scott Hanselman

    Scott is a web developer and has blogged at hanselman.com for over a decade. He works in Open Source on ASP.NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, OR. Scott has 3 podcasts, hanselminutes.com, thisdeveloperslife.com and ratchetandthegeek.com.

  • Bill Sourour

    Bill is the founder of DevMastery.com. A 20 year veteran programmer, architect, consultant, and teacher, he helps individual developers and billion dollar organizations become more successful every day.

  • Troy Hunt

    Troy is a Pluralsight author, Microsoft Regional Director and Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and world-renowned internet security specialist. He’s the creator of “Have I been pwned?”, the free online service for breach monitoring and notifications and blogs at troyhunt.com from his home in Australia.

  • Jeff Atwood

    Jeff is a software developer, author, blogger and entrepreneur. He is known for the programming blog Coding Horror, and is the co-founder of the Q&A website Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange Network.

  • Joe Armstrong

    Joe is the inventor of the programming language Erlang. PhD in computer science, and Adjunct Professor of computer Science at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

  • Kent Beck

    Kent is a software engineer, author, coach and creator of Extreme Programming. He was 1 of the 17 signatories of the Agile Manifesto and a leading proponent of TDD. He pioneered design patterns and his current academic project is a study of software design.

  • Aline Lerner

    Aline is the co-founder and CEO of interviewing.io. She likes ranting on the internet about how hiring is broken, and her work has appeared in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company.

  • Reginald Braithwaite

    Reg is the author of JavaScript Allongé, CoffeeScript Ristretto and raganwald.com. He develops user experiences at PagerDuty. His other works are on GitHub and Leanpub, you can follow him on Twitter @raganwald.

  • Matt Mazur

    Matt is a developer at Automattic where he focuses on growth for WordPress.com. He currently lives in Orlando, Florida, with his wife and two kids.

  • Ossi Hanhinen

    Ossi has been writing web stuff since he was in elementary school. He is always trying to learn something new and interesting — nowadays surrounded by the brilliant people of Futurice.

  • Heidi Roizen

    Heidi is the Operating Partner at DFJ, a lecturer on Entrepreneurship at Stanford, and a recovering entrepreneur.

Our Interviews

  • Henrik Joreteg

    Henrik is a Progressive Web App developer, consultant, and educator. He is the author of Human JavaScript and creator of Ampersand.js, SimpleWebRTC, Talky.io and over 200 JavaScript libraries. He’s also spoken at O’Reilly’s FluentConf and FFConf.

  • John Sonmez

    John is the founder of SimpleProgrammer.com, author of the bestselling book Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual and creator of over 50 professional developer courses ranging from iOS, Android, Game Development, Java and more.

  • Patrick J. McGinnis

    Patrick is a venture capitalist and private equity investor who founded Dirigo Advisors, after a decade on Wall Street, to provide strategic advice to investors, entrepreneurs, and fast growing businesses. He is the author of The 10% Entrepreneur, published by Penguin books.

Our Objective

Our objective is to help programmers of all levels take control of their career success by learning more, reading less and staying current. This is the basis for all decision-making at HACKER BITS.

We serve our subscribers by publishing the best collection of articles each month, so they are learning more, reading less and staying current with the latest technologies. Ultimately, the monthly selection of articles aims to offer tips, tricks, in-depth reviews, increased productivity and better code.

We serve our experts by providing a platform for reaching and teaching to an even wider audience. As a result, both readers and authors are growing and succeeding together.

Learn. Teach. Grow.

Our FAQ

Generally, articles must have at least 200 upvotes on Hacker News. We make exceptions if we found the article really useful. We tend to focus on the evergreen stories so that our readers can learn, the authors can teach and everyone grows. Sorry nytimes, arstechnica and theguardian… :)
The format is not set in stone. However, we aim to run 10 stories every month:

  • 3 programming stories
  • 3 startup stories
  • 2 opinion pieces
  • 2 interesting stories

If we feel a story is really worth reading, we may run more than the quota for each category.

Yes, we always ask authors for permission and only include their work with their written permission.
Although the majority of our readers prefer the digital magazine, a physical copy is available through MagCloud, a professional-quality printer, publisher and distributor.
Currently, Hacker Bits Magazine is purely about growing the readership. That’s all we’re focused on. We’re not thinking about revenue, but only to get engaged readers that love the magazine. We’re a growing magazine, and our open rate crushes industry averages.

Our Team

We (Ray and Maureen) are a husband and wife team from Redmond, Washington.

Ray Li

Ray is a software engineer and data enthusiast who has been blogging at rayli.net for over a decade. He loves to learn, teach and grow. You’ll usually find him wrangling data, programming and lifehacking.

Maureen Ker

Maureen is an editor, writer, and enthusiastic cook and prolific collector of useless kitchen gadgets. She is the author of 3 books and over 100 articles, and her work has appeared in the New York Daily News, and various adult and children’s publications.

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