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buildo blog is the company blog at blog.buildo.io, writing about programming and business. Since 2017, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Enable your Devs to do Ops”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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36mentions?
15HN people?
2017–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 25 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Medium-hosted engineering blog from buildo on Scala. Linked for a data-driven take on programming (compiler logs, IDEs, types) and for the difficulty of debugging spray-routing DSL routes.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Enable your Devs to do Ops
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-03-19
  2. The three laws of config dynamics
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-07-06
  3. Show HN: Towards route-less HTTP services in Scala
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-09-01
  4. Show HN: FlexView – A React Component to Create Flexbox Layouts
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-20
  5. The Joy of Code Reviews
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. > do you really need to analyze compilation logs to arrive to the conclusion that you should use an IDE and that types are helpful ? Yes you do. That's the point of the article - we should apply basic scientific method to programming (that's what distinguishes us from magicians). > There is also no real hint into why getting this error... This part of the story is better explained here https://blog.buildo.io/http-ro…

    Comment linking /http-routes-at-buildo-1424250c41d3

    on “Data-driven Scala Programming”
  2. Submitted Data-driven Scala Programming as a story · 98 points

    HN discussion
  3. A little more regarding that error from the same site: "Spray-routing uses a cool and crazy DSL to write routes in Scala, based on the magnet pattern. Despite it being all nice and flexible, it’s also extremely frustrating to debug." From, "What's Wrong With Routes?" https://blog.buildo.io/http-routes-at-buildo-1424250c41d3

    Comment linking /http-routes-at-buildo-1424250c41d3

    on “Data-driven Scala Programming”
  4. Submitted Show HN: Playing music with your voice and machine learning as a story · 92 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Experiment, Measure, Repeat as a story · 65 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Exploring Scala AST in your browser as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Metarpheus: A Custom Approach to API Contracts as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted How We Communicate in Our Company as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Enable your Devs to do Ops as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Are you writing effective user stories? as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Show HN: Voice to MIDI bot as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Show HN: FlexView – A React Component to Create Flexbox Layouts as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Formatting Scala in Visual Studio Code as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Persistence Layers as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted FlexView: the easiest way to use flex with React as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Enable your Devs to do Ops: Runbooks in the DevOps era as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Show HN: Towards route-less HTTP services in Scala as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The Joy of Code Reviews as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted The Joy of Code Reviews as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted The three laws of config dynamics as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted CloudFront config with Terraform: static website hosting with two lines of code as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Playing musical instruments with your voice and machine learning as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted The three laws of config dynamics as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Monad Transformers for the Working Programmer as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Route-less HTTP services in Scala as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted A Summary of Scala Days Copenhagen 2017 as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted How to fight against entropy in your configuration files as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted A Tour of Abstract Syntax Trees as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Managing npm libraries, done right as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Enable Your Devs to Do Ops – Runbooks in the DevOps Era as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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