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Bekk
Company blog · blogg.bekk.noprogrammingweb
Bekk is the company blog at blogg.bekk.no, writing about programming and web. Since 2018, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bekk's Medium blog, which hosts its advent-calendar posts on topics such as Elm, Java, serverless and JavaScript engine performance, including the Vy Elm case study and an Elm runtime performance series.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccadf5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-12-09
- Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-10-09
- The Effects of Public Cloud on Team Autonomy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-27
What Hacker News says?
I agree, people don't want to manually add all MCP servers they want to connect to. I think we're headed in a direction where dynamic tool discovery will be important. E.g. I want to do "x" which requires doing "y" and "z". The client or server should then search for the tools (or agents as tools) that can do the job. So this would basically be a semantic search for which tools are most likely to do the job, then us…
Comment linking /function-retrieval-add-unlimited-functions-to-chatgpt-73916a4606ae
on “OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK”Submitted Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm as a story · 197 points
HN discussion> - The language doesn't have component composition (like in React or Vue) and you end up having huge chunks of spaghetti code (but to be fair, it kind of works because of the compiler). Um... yea it does. Elm makes functional composition very easy which which means it's very easy to compose "components" (which are just functions anyway). > - Only pure functions in Elm, so doing API calls and generating random numbe…
Comment linking /using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb
on “Elm 0.19.1”Submitted How JavaScript engines achieve great performance as a story · 145 points
HN discussionThere was one mentioned on HN not long ago: Link: https://blogg.bekk.no/using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21204761
Comment linking /using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb
on “Elm 0.19.1”Submitted Fixing a performance problem in Elm using Html.Lazy as a story · 68 points
HN discussionhttps://blogg.bekk.no/introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccad... Is there a rule against authors posting their own content? It's not some grand conspiracy, it's just an christmas campaign by a company that has asked their employees to write about topics that interest them, and those articles are shared during advent. On the 25th it'll presumably go quiet again until December 1st 2020.
Comment linking /introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccadf
on “What's new in Java 12, 13 and 14”Submitted What I Learned About UX Writing from a British Prog Drummer and David Lynch as a story · 63 points
HN discussionThis article is a part of a larger series that tries to figure out how Elm's runtime performance can be improved: https://blogg.bekk.no/successes-and-failures-in-optimizing-e... I'm the author of the articles, btw.
Comment linking /successes-and-failures-in-optimizing-elms-runtime-performance-c8dc88f4e623
on “How JavaScript engines achieve great performance”Submitted Bekk.christmas – 264 articles about tech, design, strategy and innovation as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> that is a really short list But was it a well-known list before this? I hadn't seen it, and know of a few projects that could have been on there. What I'd like the list to include, though, is some references to the companies discussing using Elm. Pros and cons, the scale to which it is used etc. For instance for Vy there is this blog post: https://blogg.bekk.no/using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb
Comment linking /using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb
on “A list of companies using Elm in production”Submitted The Effects of Public Cloud on Team Autonomy as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWe are genuinely not trying to spam anyone, just in the mood of sharing knowledge through small daily blog posts in 12 different areas throughout December :) You can see the 12 advent calendars at https://bekk.christmas and a blog post introducing the concept here https://blogg.bekk.no/introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccad...
Comment linking /introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccadf
on “Serverless Development with Serverless Framework”Submitted Removing Elm’s F-functions, a failed experiment as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's a collection of advent calendars from a norwegian agency with fun TLDs: https://blogg.bekk.no/introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccad...
Comment linking /introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccadf
on “I thought I understood recursion”Submitted Organizing for Speed as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou can read more about it here: https://blogg.bekk.no/introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccad... TL;DR: A company is publishing a lot of articles through 12 different advent calendars this holiday season.
Comment linking /introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccadf
on “Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?”Submitted How Elm Functions Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://blogg.bekk.no/introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccad...
Comment linking /introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccadf
on “Typesafe Error Handling in Kotlin”Submitted JavaScript engines achieve great performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSeems like the lead developer works for the company that rewrote www.vy.no [1] in Elm. [1] “the largest transport provider in Norway” https://blogg.bekk.no/using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb
Comment linking /using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb
on “An Elm Fork”Submitted JavaScript Engines Achieve Great Performance – Optimizing Elm Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Successfully improving function call performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Successes, and failures, in optimizing Elm's runtime performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted High performance persistent queue using db-scheduler as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The UX of APIs (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How JavaScript engines achieve great performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s Try Anonymous Pull Requests as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Effects of Public Cloud on Team Autonomy as a story · 1 points
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