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chriskiehl.com
Personal blog · chriskiehl.com/article · on HN as goostavosprogrammingcareerai
chriskiehl.com is a personal blog at chriskiehl.com about programming, career and ai. Since 2017, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Event Sourcing is Hard”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
A pretty cool website
Most-linked posts?
- Event Sourcing is Hard4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-02-03
- Software engineering topics I changed my mind on4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-24
- Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-09-22
- Software development topics I've changed my mind on2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-03
- “What if it changes?”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-22
- It's still ok to enjoy programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-17
- Parallelism in one line2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-06
What Hacker News says?
He mentions this being a follow-up to a similar earlier post: https://chriskiehl.com/article/thoughts-after-6-years . HN discussions on that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25887373 (4 years ago|686 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162716 (3 years ago|58 comments), and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41633156 (4 months ago|56 comments).
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on “Software development topics I've changed my mind on”Submitted Software engineering topics I changed my mind on as a story · 1164 points
HN discussionYou can actually use Gooey for any arbitrary program or language (if you don't mind configuring a few of your cli arguments in python). Gooey technically just uses Json behind the scenes, but Python remains the most first class way to generate that blob of json. I wrote a brief guide awhile ago here[0]. For instance, all the screen shots and screen recordings throughout the README are done with a custom wrapper I ma…
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on “Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application”Submitted Software development topics I've changed my mind on as a story · 873 points
HN discussionHearing that other people struggled with this problem gives me solidarity. It took me an embarrassing amount of time to get "click and drag thing" working in isometric [0]. Rendering differently sized sprites was a whole other thing. Figuring it out without google was immensely satisfying, though. Reminded me what I love about programming. [0] https://chriskiehl.com/article/home-theater-calculator
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on “Isometric Projection in Game Development”Submitted It's still ok to enjoy programming as a story · 713 points
HN discussionCount me in the long line of suckers :( Probably one of the largest technical blunders of my career (or at least the largest so far! ) was pulling a team down into ES hell on a greenfield project. Turns out, growing an event sourced application is fantastically hard[0]. Ours eventually became a twisted opaque mess which was terrifying to modify due to (a) the sheer volume of code it took to do so, and (b) eventually…
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on “The Reactive Monolith – How to Move from CRUD to Event Sourcing”Submitted Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application as a story · 531 points
HN discussionIt means going from: Frontend > React > [state management library of choice] to Frontend > Data Layer > View Layer (React) This is MVC, no? That's basically the diagram for MVC on the Wikipedia page. I suppose giving it a "-first" (god I hate this trend) moniker spiffs it up a bit. We could also name it "modern MVC" for ultimate internet points. I'd also read this article (not mine): https://chriskiehl.com/article/r…
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on “It's time for a data-first front end revolution”Submitted Event Sourcing is Hard as a story · 485 points
HN discussionSure, I was talking about the workaround mentioned here: > You can also invoke any arbitrary executable [ https://chriskiehl.com/article/gooey-as-a-universal-frontend ], not just python, which is pretty handy. Rhetorics aside, you can use Gooey for any CLI tool using a small Python glue (pardon the pun) code, so it was not a flat out lie.
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on “Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application”Submitted “What if it changes?” as a story · 431 points
HN discussionHey, what the -- this is my thing. ^_^ What's it doing at the top of HN? A quick reply to some of the comments about argparse. Gooey is super old at this point. Argparse was a solid choice at the time when Gooey started. These days, Gooey itself speaks in JSON and is decoupled from argparse itself. However, argparse remains the main "blessed" interface (mostly because nobody else has built a different one). Some fun…
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on “Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application”Submitted Event Sourcing Is Hard (2019) as a story · 286 points
HN discussionEvent sourcing is a pattern (antipatern?) that appears useful because it solves an interpersonal problem. It is the kind of thing that middle management salivates over because it appears to decentralize control, which to such a manager sounds like "gives me more control of my own sphere". Every team creates their own event schemas and subscribes to other teams' events and we all live happily ever after. Never again…
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on “Are you considering Event Sourcing? Think again”Submitted How to lose $950 quickly on Airbnb as a story · 190 points
HN discussionhttps://chriskiehl.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 6 years in dev as a story · 85 points
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HN discussionSubmitted It's still OK to enjoy programming as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unpopular opinion about the Fundamentals of Software Architecture book as a story · 4 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Using Gooey as a Universal Front end for any Language or CLI App, e.g., FFmpeg as a story · 3 points
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