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blog.kronis.dev
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blog.kronis.dev is a personal blog at blog.kronis.dev about programming, systems and ai. Since 2020, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 307 times, most often “Never update anything”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on software releases and updating, such as a stable-software article cited in a thread about year-based version numbers versus semver.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Never update anything3 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2021-08-26
- Stable Software Release System3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-22
- Moduliths: Because we need to scale, but we also cannot afford microservices2 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2021-06-29
- Remote Working and the Elephant in the Room2 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2021-10-03
- Self-hosting an AI (LLM) chatbot without going broke2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-06-06
- Docker Swarm over Kubernetes2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-11
- My blog doesn't need quality, it needs to look like it's from the 90s2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-04
- Boring or novel should your technology choices be2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-15
- I blew through 24M tokens in a day (2025)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-19
- Never Update Anything (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-08
What Hacker News says?
> For 3 computers, 2 laptops, I've never _not_ had display bugs/oddities/issues. System upgrades always make me nervous because there is a very real chance of something getting fucked up and my screen staying black the next time it boots, having to go into a TTY, and manually fixing stuff up or booting the previous version that was still saved in GRUB. I've had a Debian update break GRUB itself as well: https://blog…
Comment linking /everything%20is%20broken/debian-and-grub-are-broken
on “CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops”Submitted Never update anything as a story · 319 points
HN discussionYep, i've heard that before. Currently thinking of finishing the modernization of the projects that i'm doing at my current place of work and then maybe looking at other opportunities. However, i just had a look at https://www.algas.lv/en , one site that aggregates the local salary information, based on a variety of stats. As someone with a Master's degree and ~5 years of experience and whose job description states…
Comment linking /articles/on-finances-and-savings
on “Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend”Submitted Never Update Anything as a story · 185 points
HN discussionI wonder why no one ever talks about architectures in the middle between those two - modular monoliths. The point in time where you're splitting your codebase up in modules (or maybe are a proponent of hexagonal architecture and have designed it that way from the beginning), leading to being able to put functionality behind feature flags. That way, you can still run it either as a single instance monolith, or a set…
Comment linking /articles/modulith-because-we-need-to-scale-but-we-also-cannot-afford-micro-services
on “Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend”Submitted The good things in the current age in tech as a story · 170 points
HN discussionI used Claude a lot and absolutely hated it: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/ai-slop-is-a-self-inflicted-tra... Though to be fair Opus 5.5 is better than Opus 5 was in that regard. I still prefer the OpenAI models to either of them when it comes to regular prose, though.
Comment linking /blog/ai-slop-is-a-self-inflicted-tragedy/
on “Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed”Submitted Stop killing games and the industry response as a story · 119 points
HN discussion> And one of the best parts is, I've never had a Debian system break without it being my fault in some way. https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/debian-updates-are-broken https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/debian-and-grub-are-broken Then again, I’ve had most software occasionally break, I’m thankful that Debian exists.
Comment linking /blog/debian-and-grub-are-broken
on “Debian 13 “Trixie””Submitted Stable Software Release System as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI recently ended up having a multiple hour long conversation with a friend of mine about the potential impact of LLMs and similar tools, which I then made into a blog post: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/ai-artisans-and-brainrot Basically, if you use agentic tools (not just to look things up or get surface level answers, but write your code for you), then it's quite likely that your brain no longer does as much heavy…
Comment linking /blog/ai-artisans-and-brainrot
on “Writing toy software is a joy”- eu · 2025-09-19
Submitted Never Update Anything (2021) as a story · 4 points
HN discussion > If you look outside of coastal cities, there are plenty of job offers for engineering jobs that pay less than 6 figures. Over in Europe and East Asia, $50 to $60k salaries are the norm. And people job hop frequently for a few extra $k because that corresponds to a significant increase in quality of life for them. The difference between a 2 br and 3 or 4 br apartment, between another kid or not, etc... In my eyes,…
Comment linking /articles/on-finances-and-savings
on “I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now”Submitted My blog doesn't need quality, it needs to look like it's from the 90s as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor comparison, here's my own usage with various cloud models for development: * Claude in December: 91 million tokens in, 750k out * Codex in December: 43 million tokens in, 351k out * Cerebras in December: 41 million tokens in, 301k out * (obviously those figures above are so far in the month only) * Claude in November: 196 million tokens in, 1.8 million out * Codex in November: 214 million tokens in, 4 million ou…
Comment linking /blog/i-blew-through-24-million-tokens-in-a-day
on “Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI”Submitted Apple is increasing my cortisol levels as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHeh, i think that there are plenty of opinions about how software versioning should work. Yours is a pretty good one, i think that software versions should be indicative of what it contains to the people using them, whereas some others primarily care about the compatibility with the other versions. Semantic versioning is better suited to the latter group, because it doesn't really care about what's in the software,…
Comment linking /articles/stable-software-release-system
on “Go Replaces Interface {} with 'Any'”Submitted Zed Is Pretty Nice as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> I’ll take a dozen useEffects over a single class component any day. Someone actually did in a project once and that lead to render loops that were hard to debug or solve: https://blog.kronis.dev/everything%20is%20broken/modern-reac... Instead of a clear message about what caused that loop and maybe a walkthrough of the last N iterations (which changes caused which logic to be triggered), the error message was just…
Comment linking /everything%20is%20broken/modern-react-is-broken
on “React I love you, but you're bringing me down”Submitted Software Licenses and Hyperscalers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI finished it about a year ago, but due to reasons outside of my control (administrative decisions), i had to write it in my native language, Latvian, so it's probably a tad useless to a wider audience. In case anyone desires to mess around with PDFs and machine translation: - research praxis: https://files.kronis.dev/s/AJRCs84D7WngLzD - development praxis: https://files.kronis.dev/s/Xz6mtbAamoA7Pe8 - the full text:…
Comment linking /articles/covid-19-contact-tracing-with-gps-versus-bluetooth-and-the-unexplored-potential-for-the-apps
on “Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement”Submitted Never Update Anything (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOh, not at all! I just think that it's the biggest Achilles' heel around Docker at the moment, one that could have catastrophic consequences on the industry. It'd be about as bad as that one time when Debian updates broke GRUB and my server could no longer boot: https://blog.kronis.dev/everything%20is%20broken/debian-and-... Imagine that, but industry wide: - you no longer can use your own images that are stored in…
Comment linking /everything%20is%20broken/debian-and-grub-are-broken
on “Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement”Submitted Self-hosting an AI (LLM) chatbot without going broke as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> I'm a game developer and game performance is better than ever. It could be, if users would have more control over the graphics settings of the games that they want to play and they were allowed to scale back further to accommodate older hardware. For example, the Unity engine by default has a setting to allow downscaling the texture resolution that the game will use 2X, 4X and 8X, yet many games out there actually…
Comment linking /articles/porting-the-godot-lod-plugin-from-gdscript-to-c
on “Why modern software is slow”Submitted Moduliths: Because we need to scale, but we also cannot afford microservices as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> The benefits for a single-man semi-hobbyist working on simple sites, often static, are heavily offset by the busywork these tools constantly generate. They move almost as fast as the JS world, add more and more things to track and update, and risk becoming another point of failure. In regards to something like Kubernetes, i largely agree. However, there is (currently) certainly some merit to just using Docker, Doc…
Comment linking /articles/my-journey-from-ad-hoc-chaos-to-order-a-tale-of-legacy-code-services-and-containers
on “I must announce the immediate end of service of SSLPing”Submitted Remote Working and the Elephant in the Room as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Employees are not willing to put a little extra (paid extra, I mean - and we’re at the 35hrs week here), Currently working in a company that's short staffed but there's a seemingly endless amount of work. Things might be so charitable in many companies out there for all I care, but that's definitely not the situation everywhere. Then again, at least in my current company things are nowhere near as bad as 996, but…
Comment linking /articles/on-finances-and-savings
on “Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession”Submitted Docker Swarm over Kubernetes as a story · 2 points
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