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CircleCI
Company blog · blog.circleci.comprogrammingsystems
CircleCI is the company blog at blog.circleci.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2012, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 82 times, most often “It's the Future”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link CircleCI's engineering blog mostly for its tongue-in-cheek 'It's the future' post mocking Docker hype, which commenters reuse as a meme, plus posts on Clojure typing and Docker versus Heroku.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The CircleCI blog is your home for DevOps, continuous integration and delivery, and engineering productivity. Explore tutorials, guides, and best practices.
Most-linked posts?
- It's the Future6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-06-09
- Why we’re no longer using Core.typed4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-09-23
- "Silence is for the weak"2 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-01-03
- CircleCI raises $6m Series A2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-02-06
- Kindness is Underrated2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-05-12
- CircleCI's incident response2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-30
- Why we're supporting Typed Clojure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-27
- Docker really is the future2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-19
- Show HN: Adaptive Placeholders2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-29
What Hacker News says?
It's the future! http://blog.circleci.com/its-the-future/
Comment linking /its-the-future/
on “Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production”Submitted It's the Future as a story · 583 points
HN discussionCircleCI ( https://circleci.com/jobs ) - fulltime, SF or REMOTE, international OK, VISA-transfers OK More than anything, we try to make CircleCI a great place to work. You might love it too if you like: - working with great people who you can learn from - to work on developer tools - building a product that customers love, and pay for - working with Clojure and ClojureScript - flat, transparent cultures (we're inspi…
Comment linking /silence-is-for-the-weak/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)”Submitted Why We Use Om, and Why We’re Excited for Om Next as a story · 215 points
HN discussionIt took a while, but I read the spec and wrote a critique: http://blog.circleci.com/critiquing-facebooks-new-php-spec/ (comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8114919 )
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on “Announcing a specification for PHP”Submitted Why we're supporting Typed Clojure as a story · 212 points
HN discussionDude, you should brag about your approach to private offices, like your designer wrote about: http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/ It reminds me of Joel Spolsky's articles on their approach to workspaces. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FieldGuidetoDeveloper... It's so rare to find a workplace in SF that's not an open office plan that some of the most productive people retreat to remote work just…
Comment linking /silence-is-for-the-weak/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)”Submitted CircleCI raises $6m Series A as a story · 161 points
HN discussionCircleCI ( https://circleci.com/jobs ) - fulltime, SF or REMOTE, international OK, VISA-transfers OK More than anything, we try to make CircleCI a great place to work. You might love it too if you like: - working with great people who you can learn from - to work on developer tools - building a product that customers love, and pay for - working with Clojure and ClojureScript - flat, transparent cultures (we're inspi…
Comment linking /silence-is-for-the-weak/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)”Submitted Critiquing Facebook's new PHP spec as a story · 142 points
HN discussionCircleCI ( https://circleci.com/jobs ) - fulltime, SF or REMOTE, international OK, VISA-transfers OK More than anything, we try to make CircleCI a great place to work. You might love it too if you like: - working with great people who you can learn from - to work on developer tools - building a product that customers love, and pay for - working with Clojure and ClojureScript - flat, transparent cultures (we're inspi…
Comment linking /silence-is-for-the-weak/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)”Submitted Why we’re no longer using Core.typed as a story · 122 points
HN discussionCircleCI ( https://circleci.com/jobs ) - fulltime, SF or REMOTE, international OK, VISA-transfers OK More than anything, we try to make CircleCI a great place to work. You might love it too if you like: - working with great people who you can learn from - to work on developer tools - building a product that customers love, and pay for - working with Clojure and ClojureScript (for developer roles) - transparent cultu…
Comment linking /silence-is-for-the-weak/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)”Submitted Docker really is the future as a story · 99 points
HN discussionWe've just moved into our first place where everyone has a private office. It's absolutely amazing! I had been complaining for years about open-plan offices [1], but I was actually surprised at just how much more productive it is to have a door that closes! [1] http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/
Comment linking /silence-is-for-the-weak/
on “The Open-office Trap”Submitted "Silence is for the weak" as a story · 91 points
HN discussionIt's the future http://blog.circleci.com/its-the-future/
Comment linking /its-the-future/
on “React v0.14 Beta 1 released”Submitted Conway's game of death - making an IOCCC winner as a story · 69 points
HN discussionAmen! I run https://circleci.com , where we make all of our money by actually running tests for people, and I still believe this. The goal of your software is to achieve goals, typically business goals. Often the software itself is already one or two steps removed from the value provided to customers. Tests are an extra step removed at least. I wrote a similar piece here: http://blog.circleci.com/testing-is-bullshit/
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on “Tests Are Overhyped”Submitted CircleCI launches Docker support as a story · 64 points
HN discussionThere's nothing preventing you from using core.typed ( http://typedclojure.org/ ) in Clojure. There's a presentation from CircleCI on how they use core.typed ( http://blog.circleci.com/supporting-typed-clojure/ ) where it makes sense for their projects.
Comment linking /supporting-typed-clojure/
on “Scala – The good, the bad and the very ugly”Submitted CircleCI's incident response as a story · 59 points
HN discussionIt's the future. http://blog.circleci.com/its-the-future/
Comment linking /its-the-future/
on “Create a character voting app using React, Node.js, MongoDB and Socket.io”Submitted CircleCI - So we raised a bunch of money as a story · 47 points
HN discussionNo. We have it planned but not written yet. Follow http://blog.circleci.com or http://twitter.com/circleci if you're interested, or if we're very lucky you might find it on HN too :)
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on “Do Web Developers Ever Learn?”Submitted Kindness is Underrated as a story · 45 points
HN discussionLocation: San Francisco, CA Remote: Happily! Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Clojure [web stack], Python [Django, Flask, scripting], Bash, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Unix/Linux systems. Comfortable / curious about Golang, Ruby. Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/w-david-jarvis/b/aa6/37/ Email: venantius@gmail.com Links: - GitHub: https://github.com/venantius - Personal: http://venanti.us Background: I started as an…
Comment linking /kindness-is-underrated/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2014)”Submitted Announcing iOS and Android Support as a story · 39 points
HN discussionFor anyone experimenting with inline styles, there are a couple of things you'll still need a stylesheet for. Inline styles can't modify psuedo-elements or psuedo-styles. You'll need to define styles for :before, :focus, :active, etc. in a stylesheet. These selectors are really important if you want to make appealing forms, e.g. http://blog.circleci.com/adaptive-placeholders/ Vendor prefixes are difficult to do with…
Comment linking /adaptive-placeholders/
on “ReactCSS – Bringing Classes to Inline Styles”Submitted Checkpoint and restore Docker containers with CRIU as a story · 36 points
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