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Carlos Becker
Personal blog · carlosbecker.com/postsprogrammingstartups
Carlos Becker's personal blog at carlosbecker.com covers programming and startups. Since 2013, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “70% cheaper Kubernetes cluster on AWS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Carlos Becker's blog as a reference for the fish shell's performance versus zsh and for Twitter's move away from Ruby on Rails. Both are cited as sources in discussions.
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.
Thoughts, rants, and discoveries on software development and related stuff.
Most-linked posts?
- 70% cheaper Kubernetes cluster on AWS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-28
What Hacker News says?
I've never tried zsh. I remember reading in the interwebz that if you go towards feature-parity with fish in a zsh setup, the latencies here and there, adds up and makes it slower than fish. Here is a relevant blog post: https://carlosbecker.com/posts/fish/ But yeah, I don't have any proofs.
Comment linking /posts/fish/
on “Fish 3.4.0”Submitted Twitter drops Ruby - The Bullshit as a story · 6 points
HN discussionInitial Twitter service was built using Ruby on Rails, shifting to Scala on the JVM around 2011-2012. See: https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/ https://carlosbecker.com/posts/twitter-drops-ruby-bullshit/ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2011/twitter-se... for a sampling of explanations.
Comment linking /posts/twitter-drops-ruby-bullshit/
on “Ask HN: What are some bad engineering decisions that screwed startups?”Submitted Gumroad, where is my money? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving on from Nix as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building GoReleaser: from shell script to paid product as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted GoReleaser v2.11 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Issuing and Using SSH Certificates as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing GoReleaser Pro as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 70% cheaper Kubernetes cluster on AWS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to make people love your product as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flag-oriented programming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building GoReleaser: from shell script to paid product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using GoReleaser and GitHub Actions to release Rust and Zig projects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SSH Tips and Tricks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 70% cheaper Kubernetes cluster on AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My thoughts on alerting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Jvm, like rvm, but for Java as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Erlang Everything - Scalability is not everything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doing Less, for Her as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Side Projects Reverie: side projects, and how I do them as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A pragmatic guide to Go module updates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A brief and incomplete history of modal text editors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Measuring production code coverage with JaCoCo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Continuous Delivery with GitHub, CircleCI, Docker and AWS Elastic Beanstalk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maven PullRequest Coverage Plugin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Java Best Practices as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript basics: Variable Hoisting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Javascript Contexts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From zero to a persistent and modular Java project in 5 minutes as a story · 1 points
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