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@adlrocha Beyond The Code
Personal blog · adlrocha.substack.comprogrammingaicareer
@adlrocha Beyond The Code is a personal blog at adlrocha.substack.com about programming, ai and career. Since 2019, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 120 times, most often “Software should be designed to last”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts on local-first software, CRDT syncing, and immutable databases, one arguing immutable databases are more interesting than blockchain hype. Commenters cite them rather than praise them.
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.
My personal public journal. Reflections on cutting-edge systems, career pivots, and the mindset of an engineer in the age of AI.
Most-linked posts?
- Software should be designed to last3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-21
- Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-12
- I have been underestimating JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-05
- Immutable Databases2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-24
- In a quest to becoming AI independent2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-10
What Hacker News says?
https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-what-if-we-had-loca... Local first software can still be synced with CRDTs
Comment linking /p/adlrocha-what-if-we-had-local-first?s=r
on “Show HN: Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and Reddit”Submitted What if we had Local-First Software? as a story · 291 points
HN discussionImmutable databases are much more interesting than Blockchain, it's time for the hype circle to move on https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-immutable-databases
Comment linking /p/adlrocha-immutable-databases
on “Why blockchain is not yet working (2018)”Submitted Software should be designed to last as a story · 159 points
HN discussionNow we just need the RAM market to get back to normal. Or at least fine OpenAI for speculating on raw wafers. There's an article on the front page [0] with this passage that gives me hope that consumer access to VRAM may improve > On the infrastructure side: OpenAI signed non-binding letters of intent with Samsung and SK Hynix for up to 900,000 DRAM wafers per month, roughly 40% of global output. These were of cours…
Comment linking /p/adlrocha-how-the-ai-loser-may-end
on “Claude.ai down”Submitted How to make a web app work offline as a story · 149 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does happiness at work mean? as a story · 148 points
HN discussionSubmitted I built an IPFS crawler with libp2p as a story · 116 points
HN discussionSubmitted Immutable Databases as a story · 114 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finite State Machines as a story · 102 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polygon: L2 or Not L2? as a story · 94 points
HN discussionSubmitted Network Coding in P2P Networks as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted WebBundles are built for content-addressable networks as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hash Array Mapped Tries (HAMT) to the Rescue as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Gentle Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond Bitswap as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Scalable Monolith as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is P=NP? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted The siege of open source software? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Best Practices in Hyperledger Fabric IV: SDK as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modelling a quantum symmetric key exchange as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted In a quest to becoming AI independent as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forget "Fat" Models. The Future Is Narrow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 18-Months Deadline as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lego Farming Blocks: Letting AIs Grow Our Food as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond Benchmaxxing: Why the Future of AI Is Inference-Time Search as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zero AI Writing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted NFT Bridges as a story · 3 points
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