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Dmitry Kudryavtsev
Personal blog · yieldcode.blog/postprogrammingcareerstartups
Dmitry Kudryavtsev's personal blog at yieldcode.blog covers programming, career and startups. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times, most often “Building a web app in Rust – my experience”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on why to adopt a Makefile for project scripts. One commenter suggests simply using make and links the post, with no comment on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dmitry Kudryavtsev is a software engineer with more than a decade of experience in the industry, and a tech entrepreneur creating sustainable online business.
Most-linked posts?
- Building a web app in Rust – my experience3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-12
- One Year of Rust in Production2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-09-22
- The curse of the senior software engineer2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-03-14
- Isolating Claude Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-24
- Adopt Makefile in all of your projects2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-27
- Ghost Engineers – Measuring Productivity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-10
- Why DX Doesn't Matter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-05
- Software Development Fragmentation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-30
What Hacker News says?
As someone who is using Rust in production for a year now [0], albeit in a different industry -- webdev, I really like the language. Sure, the first steps were rough, but eventually DX became decent, and the safety guarantees of Rust allow me to have a safe mind when developing and deploying (something I can't say about other popular dynamic languages). Having said that, I agree with one of the commenters in this th…
Comment linking /post/one-year-of-rust-in-production/
on “Embedded Rust in Production?”Submitted Supercharge Your Node.js with Rust as a story · 101 points
HN discussionI have 3 blogs [0][1][2] and they all use Astro [3] with a variation of the same theme. The content is written in Markdown, and I'm in the process of moving them all from Netlify to self hosted Coolify [4]. [0] https://yieldcode.blog [1] https://thesolopreneur.blog [2] https://jikokaizen.blog [3] https://astro.build/ [4] https://coolify.io/
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on “Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?”Submitted Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy" as a story · 84 points
HN discussionI had an on off relationship with lifting for the last 12 years. But as I got more busy I became less active. And especially after the first lockdowns, I remember that walking was somewhat hard. And so, after burning out and quitting my job last year [0], I went to travel and focus on myself. I started to lift regularly. After eventually settling down, I now lift 4 times a week and box one time a week. I feel way be…
Comment linking /post/an-essay-on-burnout/
on “Why strength training? A programmer's perspective”Submitted Working with Systemd Timers as a story · 80 points
HN discussionI had a good experience with Neovim and AsciiDoc [0] You can get an epub and PDF out of it [0] https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/asciidoc-for-book-writing/
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on “Ask HN: What are the best eBook authoring tools today?”Submitted One Year of Rust in Production as a story · 70 points
HN discussionI successfully used AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor to write 2 books [0]. I found it better suit for long form content than, say, markdown, due to the fact it has more language grammar for things like chapter, admonitions, etc. [0] https://yieldcode.blog/post/asciidoc-for-book-writing/
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on “Asciidoctor: A fast text processor and publishing toolchain”Submitted One Year of Rust in Production as a story · 68 points
HN discussionWriting [0] Knowing more that what's needed. You work with SQL? Learn other types of storage. Your main language is OOP? Learn other styles of languages. Be knowledgeable in other domains such as networking, OS, game dev, storage, how memory works, etc. [0] https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/why-engineers-should-write/
Comment linking /post/why-engineers-should-write/
on “Ask HN: What took you from being a good programmer to a great one?”Submitted Serving Astro with Rust as a story · 59 points
HN discussionI run multiple blogs, although post somewhat actively in one [0]. It uses Astro SSG, deployed to netlify. I want to eventually move to deploy on Hetzner VPS via GitLab CI/CD. [0] https://yieldcode.blog/
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on “Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack?”Submitted The curse of the senior software engineer as a story · 56 points
HN discussionJust use make https://yieldcode.blog/post/why-you-should-adpot-makefile-in...
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on “Project Scripts”Submitted Rendering Emails with SvelteKit as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | HYBRID IN NL/REMOTE EMEA | Full time and short/mid/long range contracts I'm a versatile software engineer. I have 14 years of professional experience. My recent stack is NodeJS, but I worked with PHP, python, Java/Kotlin, Rust. Can build all types of backend: Pure API, old school pjax style, SPAs, etc. Can build desktop apps using Electron/Tauri. If necessary, can manage to learn native development. P…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2023)”Submitted Why engineers should focus on writing as a story · 7 points
HN discussionPersonal website (+ everything-else-blog) -> https://kudmitry.com/ Technical blog website -> https://yieldcode.blog/ Probably should unify them... or not...
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted How to Stay Junior Forever as a story · 5 points
HN discussionJust published it, in case you want to read [0] [0] https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/the-curse-of-the-senior-engi...
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on “How to get out of career limbo?”Submitted The Curse of the Senior Software Engineer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOh man. I JUST finished a blog post draft about exactly this. Probably gonna publish it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, so keep an eye on my blog [0]. Going back to your question, I'm exactly the same. 14 years of experience, never progressed to leadership. Got the same ghosting as you. My advice would be: keep looking. Eventually, you will either find a company that will accept your experience, or you will find…
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on “How to get out of career limbo?”Submitted Ghost Engineers – Measuring Productivity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI run 3 blogs: a tech oriented[1], a micro-blog (which get's reposted to twitter and mastodon)[2], and general blog[3] - Astro without any Frontend framework (crazy, right?) - Neovim for content writing from PC. GitJournal for writing content from mobile - Deployed on Netlify (I'm in a process of moving to a self hosted, netlify-like ci-cd pipeline) [1] https://www.yieldcode.blog/ [2] https://www.kudmitry.com/blog/…
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on “Ask HN: What is your blogging stack?”Submitted Software Development Fragmentation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGrowing a blog is not an easy task, especially if you don't have an existing audience. I'm blogging[1] actively for about an year, and my main channels of getting audience are HN and Reddit. I also believe in producing high quality content, so I get organic traffic from Google as well. - Make sure to have your blog indexed by Google and Bing (use their search console to submit the blog for their crawlers to index).…
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on “Ask HN: Growing a Blog?”Submitted The day of the blue screens of death as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI usually post articles from my blog[0] in relevant sub reddits and here on HN. I also try to write high quality content, and about things I worked with or encountered-thus hitting relevant Google terms, which in turn brings me a little bit of organic traffic. [0] https://yieldcode.blog
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on “Ask HN: Do you promote your personal blog? How?”Submitted I spent €200 on Google Ads so you won't have to as a story · 3 points
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