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Abhishek Chakraborty
Personal blog · coffeeandjunk.comphilosophyproductivityhealth
Abhishek Chakraborty's personal blog at coffeeandjunk.com covers philosophy, productivity and health. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link to his posts on Mediocristan and Extremistan, and on Goodhart's and Campbell's laws. One comment also draws on Taleb's "via negative" idea to discuss htmx.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hi, I’m Abhishek Chakraborty. I’m a designer, developer, entrepreneur, and an explorer of all things new. I write about better thinking and decision making.
What Hacker News says?
This is a typical phenomenon of Extremistan: https://coffeeandjunk.com/mediocristan-extremistan/
Comment linking /mediocristan-extremistan/
on “Six Figures in 6 days”Submitted The Stress Response Cycle: The Surprising Science Behind Feeling Better as a story · 6 points
HN discussionDo you know Goodhart's law ? https://coffeeandjunk.com/goodharts-campbells-law/ Software engineering is craft and there are many metrices. But sadly people focus heavily on algorithm/ds only.
Comment linking /goodharts-campbells-law/
on “Ask HN: What is the point of algorithm-heavy interviews?”Submitted What You Don’t Know Is More Valuable Than What You Know as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI was recommending htmx to some of my friends and they asked me "What does it add?" I told them that it's value proposition was not that it "added" anything but that it "eliminated" things, like build systems, configs, and the need to use js frameworks in incidences where it's an overkill (which in my experience is majority of the cases) HTMX is a good example/manifestation of Nassim Taleb's "Via Negative" heuristic…
Comment linking /via-negativa/
on “Why Htmx Does Not Have a Build Step”