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Bernardo Vecchia Stein
Personal blog · sidhion.com/blogprogrammingcareer
Bernardo Vecchia Stein's personal blog at sidhion.com covers programming and career. Since 2020, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “We have outgrown the Process model”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its 28-hour day experiment, including a one-year update, and a post on NixOS server ISO size issues. Commenters mostly discuss the posts' content rather than their writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My personal website and blog.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/28h_days/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-01-09
- We have outgrown the Process model3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-18
- One of the best projects I worked on had zero-overhead communication (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-24
- 20 Years of Programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-29
What Hacker News says?
All in the original post: https://sidhion.com/blog/28h_days/ This was just the 1 year update. Idea is that you go to be when you feel tired.
Comment linking /blog/28h_days/
on “28h Days: year 1 update”Submitted 28h Days: year 1 update as a story · 198 points
HN discussionIt makes me happy that OP posted https://sidhion.com/blog/28h_days/ in October of 2023, and somehow lasted 4 months before learning about https://xkcd.com/320/ . It's interesting that OP decided to try to align to a daytime schedule on the weekend, instead of during the workweek as in the comic.
Comment linking /blog/28h_days/
on “28h Days: year 1 update”Submitted NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't as a story · 182 points
HN discussionYes, it is linked[1] in the first sentence of the article. [1] https://sidhion.com/blog/28h_days/
Comment linking /blog/28h_days/
on “28h Days: year 1 update”Submitted One of the best projects I worked on had zero-overhead communication (2020) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI'm not the OP, but I've considered doing this (have personally tried tri-phasic sleep in the past as an alternative) so I'm assuming the motivation might be the same: I just don't have a 24hr circadian rhythm. I'd guess mine is more like 26hr, not 28hr, but same idea applies. If I wake up after getting 8 hours of sleep, after 16 hours I am just... not sleepy. I can go to bed and not use screens and take melatonin a…
Comment linking /blog/28h_days/
on “28h Days: year 1 update”Submitted Public Companies Considered Harmful as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://sidhion.com/blog/nixos_server_issues/ Here's another good article on the topic It's unfortunate that Perl and Python are core deps, as well as Bash
Comment linking /blog/nixos_server_issues/
on “I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?”Submitted We have outgrown the Process model as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 20 Years of Programming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted One of the best projects I worked on had zero-overhead communication as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Project Oberon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring a Future of Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We have outgrown the Process model as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Recruiting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 20 Years of Programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We have outgrown the Process model as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recording object snapshots by (ab)using JavaScript proxies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mountains of software: a romantic and a classical perspective as a story · 1 points
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