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August Lilleaas
Personal blog · augustl.com/blogprogrammingsystems
August Lilleaas's personal blog at augustl.com covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link August Lilleaas's tech blog in threads about Dgraph and its Badger spin-off. One commenter says the tech blog is great and asks for more posts on specific topics.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-18
- JDK8 + Facebook React: Rendering single page apps on the server2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-22
What Hacker News says?
Congratulations on the funding, I've been following the project for a while (your tech blog is great) and am especially fond of the spin-off project Badger[1]. I'd like to ask a few questions and make a few "content requests" for the tech blog if I may, since I see @campoy is here and @mrjn will probably stop by later =) Some things I'd love to read about on your blog 1 - I'd love to read more on the local informati…
Comment linking /blog/2018/datomic_look_at_all_the_things_i_am_not_doing_cont/
on “Graph database reinvented: Dgraph gets $11.5M to pursue unique, opinionated path”Submitted The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity as a story · 388 points
HN discussionFirst famo.us employee here, want to give people some food for thought to consider as you gripe about things like zoom and and the scrollbar (rightfully so). Some of the more controversial points, especially those regarding accessibility and progressive enhancement, made below are my own. I think I'm the only person at the company that browses the web with JavaScript disabled, so I know how broken the original world…
Comment linking /blog/2014/jdk8_react_rendering_on_server/
on “Famo.us open to everyone”Submitted An immutable operating system as a story · 286 points
HN discussion> Do you have any info on this? There have been some studies, and while all methodologies have tradeoff's go and clojure sit near the bottom of this list in bugs/committ: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.10220.pdf Which is fascinating because they are very different languages whose unifying theme is simplicity. But this actually fits well if you know another important fact: bugs occur along organizational lines. https://a…
Comment linking /blog/2019/best_bug_predictor_is_organizational_complexity/
on “Proposal to reduce loop variable scoping in Go”Submitted ZeroMQ instead of HTTP, for internal services as a story · 206 points
HN discussionSubmitted Datomic: Look at all the things I'm not doing as a story · 138 points
HN discussionSubmitted JDK8 + Facebook React: Rendering single page apps on the server as a story · 118 points
HN discussionSubmitted That WoW server blade as a story · 104 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux exists only because of a happy accident as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted Datomic: The most innovative DB you've never heard of as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted The number one predictor of software bugs is organizational complexity: study as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Absurdity of Desktop Linux as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted You have to know about persistent data structures as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Immutable Operating System (2014) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Truly concurrent user interfaces as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My all-time favorite talks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DevOps: The magic of going back in time with Datomic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on my attempt to move from Linux/Mac to Windows as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blogging with Word in your Jamstack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Field Manual – Choosing React Native as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I ditched macOS, Linux, and chose Windows for development work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Text is boring as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The #1 bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Christmas, and Time for Failure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to set up a Windows 10 development environment – for macOS and Linux users as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some of My Failures as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby Procs, blocks and anonymous functions as a story · 1 points
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