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Branislav Jenco
Personal blog · branislavjenco.github.ioprogrammingwriting
Branislav Jenco's personal blog at branislavjenco.github.io covers programming and writing. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Desired State Systems”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-23, 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 the 'Desired state systems' post as a high-level overview of controllers and declarative state, and for how React's reconciler works. The blog also holds random notes and problem write-ups.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Desired State Systems3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-01-07
What Hacker News says?
I echo the other responses to your question. Just recently I had two instances where an old blog post of mine contained a solution to a problem a coworker encountered. I publish these notes mostly so that I don't forget about them, but it's an added degree of satisfaction when it proves helpful to others. I wrote a bit about this in one of my recent posts [1]. Don't be afraid of the rabbit holes! [1] https://branisl…
Comment linking /rabbit-holes/
on “Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog”Submitted Desired State Systems as a story · 25 points
HN discussionControllers are a complex topic, but as the linked talk describes, it all comes down to some basic control theory concepts. I wrote about them in my Desired state systems post https://branislavjenco.github.io/desired-state-systems/ if somebody wants a high-level overview of how to think about them. Basically, declarative state implies value semantics which makes it easier to reason about. Underlying complexity is hi…
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on “So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?”Submitted Desired State Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne way to look at React is as an open loop desired state system, where you have a declarative way (js/jsx) of describing what you want to render and the reconciler figures out what operations to do (in the DOM), ideally in an effective way. But you could swap out the render target to other things. I wrote about it some time ago https://branislavjenco.github.io/desired-state-systems/
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on “Ink: React for interactive CLI apps”Submitted Don't be afraid of rabbit holes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://branislavjenco.github.io/ Interesting problems I found and various random notes. Most popular: https://branislavjenco.github.io/desired-state-systems/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”