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Adam Pietrasiak
Personal blog · pietrasiak.comprogrammingdesign
Adam Pietrasiak's personal blog at pietrasiak.com covers programming and design. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “A single line of code cost $8000”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pietrasiak's Electron posts, including a write-up on using React portals to render into Electron windows, and the story of a one-line code change that cost $8,000.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I design through code. Building a screen recorder for macOS called screen.studio.
Most-linked posts?
- A single line of code cost $80004 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-05-08
What Hacker News says?
That is… surprising. I’d actually seen this project before because the author did a nice write up on using React portal to portal into electron windows[1], which is something I decided to do in my app. I’d just assumed his was a cross platform project. 1: https://pietrasiak.com/creating-multi-window-electron-apps-u...
Comment linking /creating-multi-window-electron-apps-using-react-portals
on “A single line of code cost $8000”Submitted A single line of code cost $8000 as a story · 305 points
HN discussionThere's one extra character on the URL. This works: https://pietrasiak.com/one-line-of-code-that-did-cost-dollar...
Comment linking /one-line-of-code-that-did-cost-dollar8000
on “One line of code that did cost $8,000”Submitted In a democracy, you should have two votes instead of one as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One line of code that did cost $8k as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One line of code that did cost $8k as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast video rendering and encoding using web APIs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One line of code that did cost $8,000 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion