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Comments for Inside Atlassian
Company blog · developer.atlassian.com/blog · on HN as kannonboyprogrammingweb
Comments for Inside Atlassian is the company blog at developer.atlassian.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2012, 100 different Hacker News readers have linked it 178 times, most often “The best way to store your dotfiles”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 4 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Atlassian's developer blog for write-ups on git and dotfiles, Java on Alpine, and serverless behaviour. Most links cite a post as a source rather than praise it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The best way to store your dotfiles5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-02-17
- How we designed our Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-07-04
- Neat new features in Git 2.74 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-01-05
- On-demand activation of Docker containers with systemd4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-03-04
- Building command line tools with Node.js – Atlassian Developers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-11-17
- --force considered harmful; understanding git's --force-with-lease4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-04-29
- The power of Git subtree3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-05-18
- Rebuilding HipChat with React.js3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-02-10
- Smaller Java Images with Alpine Linux3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-10
- A better pull request2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-01-22
What Hacker News says?
Perhaps an unpopular opinion around here but I see nothing but positives in this announcement. This move towards a "good" Microsoft has been going on for a decade, ASP.NET MVC was released as Open Source in 2009. Seeing where they're going with .NET core, VSCode and TypeScript makes me pretty confident they will be good stewards of the site. Microsoft had their own open source hosting solution Codeplex but closed it…
Comment linking /cloud/bitbucket/
on “Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub”Submitted A better pull request as a story · 479 points
HN discussionhttps://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/01/a-better-pull-r...
Comment linking /blog/2015/01/a-better-pull-request/
on “Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M”Submitted Bitbucket secrets as a story · 138 points
HN discussionThere is an API https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/ It could be not trivial to map those data into the new destination, especially if they don't have an API too. This is how to programmatically create a new issue on GitLab https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/issues.html#new-issue and in Bitbucket https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/re...
Comment linking /bitbucket/api/2/reference/resource/repositories/%7Busername%7D/%7Brepo_slug%7D/issues
on “Hello, GitHub”Submitted What the web platform can learn from Node.js: The Darwinism of small modules as a story · 113 points
HN discussionhttps://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2018/07/atlassian-slack... > As a result of this partnership, Atlassian is discontinuing all real-time communications products, and we are working with Slack to provide a migration path for Stride and Hipchat customers. They provide dates for shuttering everything. Stride and Hipchat Cloud are shuttering Feb 2019. The latest version of Hipchat Server will be supported until June…
Comment linking /blog/2018/07/atlassian-slack-partnership/
on “Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian”Submitted Announcing HipChat Connect beta – Chat will never be the same again as a story · 39 points
HN discussionI am a Bitbucket product manager. There are a few options for configuration management and automation. The installer[1], web setup[2] and almost everything in settings/admin/provisioning can be done via a config file, script or REST call[3]. There are a few 3rd party modules for config management tools available that make use of this: Chef: https://github.com/bflad/chef-stash Puppet: https://forge.puppetlabs.com/the…
Comment linking /bitbucket/server/docs/latest/reference/rest-api.html
on “GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart”Submitted Rebuilding HipChat with React.js as a story · 38 points
HN discussionActually, the design is The Atlassian Design Guidelines and it uses the Atlassian User Interface project (Atlassians Bootstrap) which all Atlassian products are using to maintain a consistent look and feel https://developer.atlassian.com/design/
Comment linking /design/
on “Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket”Submitted Atlassian Connect for Bitbucket as a story · 35 points
HN discussionThere's an Atlasian cli with Jira support https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/acli/reference/command...
Comment linking /cloud/acli/reference/commands/jira/
on “How I use every Claude Code feature”Submitted 6 Bitbucket secrets as a story · 21 points
HN discussionOne of the Bitbucket engineers put a one-liner in the comments on the post that will generate diff-like output similar to what you're describing: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/01/a-better-pull-r...
Comment linking /blog/2015/01/a-better-pull-request/
on “A better pull request”Submitted Rebuilding HipChat with React.js as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI was searching for this earlier, I came across a HN post which someone from Atlassian write up really nicely: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-sto... No extra tools (just git), no symlinks.
Comment linking /blog/2016/02/best-way-to-store-dotfiles-git-bare-repo/
on “Tmux and Vim – better together”Submitted A better pull request (2015) as a story · 18 points
HN discussionInfo on the Stride API at https://developer.atlassian.com
Comment linking /
on “Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor”Submitted What's new in Git 2.2.0 as a story · 17 points
HN discussionIt has an API --> https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/stride/ :)
Comment linking /cloud/stride/
on “Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor”Submitted Understanding git's --force-with-lease as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSo you're going to develop something for JIRA Server (internally hosted software). You'll be using Plugins2* 1. Start here https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/getting-started/gett... 2. Install the SDK (it has some pre-reqs) and build Hello World https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/getting-started/set-up-... 3. Bone up on Plugins2 a bit more https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-platform/buildi... 4. API…
Comment linking /jiradev/jira-apis
on “Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer?”Submitted A Git horror story: faking provenance with a loose nonce as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI'd start at https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/i... .
Comment linking /static/connect/docs/latest/index.html
on “Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer?”Submitted Why you should use Clojure for your next microservice as a story · 13 points
HN discussion>They are not always terminated, in an effort to avoid cold boot startup times. That's true. I should have pointed out that from the developer's point of view it appears as if the execution is terminated, in the sense that no state is carried across code executions. However, the issue of whether the code is cold booted or not is an implementation detail of a specific serverless platform. Atlassian did a nice blog po…
Comment linking /blog/2015/03/docker-systemd-socket-activation/
on “Serverless Architectures”Submitted Why java.util.Optional is broken as a story · 11 points
HN discussion...or socket-activated systemd service [1, 2] [1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activated-containers... [2] https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/03/docker-systemd-...
Comment linking /blog/2015/03/docker-systemd-socket-activation/
on “Serverless Architectures”Submitted Zero to Bitbucket in three weeks as a story · 11 points
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