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Assaf Arkin
Personal blog · labnotes.orgprogrammingstartups
Assaf Arkin's personal blog at labnotes.org covers programming and startups. Since 2009, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Why you absolutely should be using Sugar.js”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
🔥 All about software design, development, and culture. A mix of insightful and funny. Goes great with coffee. ☕
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-05-02
- Why you absolutely should be using Sugar.js2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-26
What Hacker News says?
"So startups are just an inefficiency imposed on wealth transfer from VCs to landlords. What if someone disrupted the industry and connected VCs directly to landlords?" ;) (Source: https://labnotes.org/weekend-reading-hi-id-like-to-add-you/ )
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on “Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, but not to start one”Submitted Zombie.js: insanely fast, full-stack, headless testing as a story · 74 points
HN discussionJust the links from comments: http://hndigest.com/ http://ambassadors.thehustle.co/ http://androidweekly.net/ http://ben-evans.com/newsletter http://delanceyplace.com/ http://eepurl.com/cE6e9H http://fair.org/ http://fermatslibrary.com/ http://flowingdata.com/ http://fortune.com/tag/term-sheet/ http://freshpatents.com http://frontendfocus.co/ http://growthhackingidea.com/ http://hackaday.com http://hackernewsbooks.c…
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on “Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?”Submitted Building Node.js projects with Travis /by assaf as a story · 36 points
HN discussionI recommend Weekend Reading by Assaf Arkin to everyone, covers several topics from design and front-end to security, tooling and peopleware. More than just a collection of links, includes a bit of commentary which makes it feel much more personal. https://labnotes.org/
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on “Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?”Submitted 2011 is year of the Server-Side JavaScript as a story · 14 points
HN discussionAfter many years of RSS (Google Reader, then Feedly), I gave up on it due to sheer volume and now get my daily fix from curated email newsletters, a mix of news and tech-related ones. This post lead me to make an inventory of them: http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/morning-briefing-europe https://qz.com/ https://webopsweekly.com/ https://www.finimize.com/ http://ben-evans.com/newsletter/ https://blog.ycombinator.co…
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on “Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?”Submitted Sideline, a CoffeeScript shell for your server as a story · 13 points
HN discussionMy favorites: https://labnotes.org/ - fantastic, weekly summary on design, frontend, architecture, business, and some humor. http://rubyweekly.com/ - a roundup of announcements, new gems, talks and more http://www.evilmadscientist.com/tag/linkdump/ - monthly list of links related to science, hardware hacking, geekery http://randsinrepose.com/ - a few posts a month, great advice and thinking about tech and team manag…
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on “Ask HN: What newsletters do you read every day or week?”Submitted Why you absolutely should be using Sugar.js as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI agree with most of what you said. I like the idea of Maven's dependency management and repositories. It's also nice to have a lot of plugins to take care of common build system use cases for you. I just happen to hate the rest of it. Fortunately, I can get the best of both worlds. Buildr, Gradle, Ivy, and sbt can all work with maven repositories. So I can take the best of Maven, a.k.a, the one and only really good…
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on “Scala 2.8.0 final”Submitted I Got $4.84 from a Class Action and They Didn't Want Me to Have It as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm not really a programmer, so I can't volunteer for this, but: Assaf Arkin, who ran the co.mments.com site, might be willing to let some true programmer work with PG to bolt his code onto the HN site somehow - his main site is http://labnotes.org/ .
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on “Ask HN: How do you keep track of HN conversations?”Submitted Why you absolutely should be using Sugar.js as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted OAuth 2.0 Authorization using Rack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Travis CI ― it’s the new awesomesauce as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blast from the past: The Java Saga (Wired, 1995) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You learn fastest, while failing about half the time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Self can teach us about the future of JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Apple a counter-example to Customer Development and MVP? as a story · 1 points
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