haacked.com

What It Is

haacked.com, also known as “You’ve Been Haacked,” is Phil Haack’s personal technical blog. Phil Haack previously worked at Microsoft on projects such as ASP.NET MVC and NuGet, later held engineering management roles at GitHub, founded and developed Abbot, and is currently a Senior Product Engineer at PostHog. The site has a very clear focus: long-form writing around technology, software engineering, management, and open-source practices.

Core Features

The site centers on blog posts and tag archives, with content covering Git rebase, Git worktrees, .NET Aspire, new C# features, EF Core, ASP.NET MVC, NuGet, open-source project maintenance, engineering career paths, and more. It also includes an author profile, speaking bio, social links, tag pages, and paginated historical archives. The posts are usually not short news updates, but technical analyses or experience summaries grounded in the author’s real-world engineering work.

Pricing

The site is free to read. The article pages state that the blog posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 2.0), while code examples and the blog template are licensed under MIT. This is friendly to developers who want to cite, learn from, or reuse sample code, though attribution should still be retained as required by the licenses.

Pros and Cons

The main strengths are the author’s strong professional background and the high credibility of the writing, especially his first-hand experience with .NET, GitHub workflows, the NuGet ecosystem, and open-source governance. The writing style combines technical depth with humor, and the long-running archive also has historical value. The downside is that it is still a personal blog, not a structured course or official documentation; topics are scattered, and older posts may become outdated as technologies evolve. The site is primarily in English, which may be a language barrier for Chinese readers.

Who It’s For

It is well suited to mid- to senior-level software engineers, .NET/C# developers, open-source project maintainers, technical leads, and readers interested in engineering culture and career development. If you are looking for a systematic introduction to programming, it is not the best first stop; but if you want to understand how an experienced engineer thinks about code, toolchains, teams, and open source, it is well worth subscribing to.

Access in China

Judging by the nature of the site, haacked.com is an ordinary personal technical blog and can usually be accessed directly. Actual speed may vary depending on hosting, CDN, and ISP routing. If pages embed external links or resources from GitHub, Twitter, BlueSky, Threads, and similar services, some third-party content may be unavailable in mainland China.