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Efron Licht
Personal blog · eblog.fly.dev · on HN as efronlichtprogrammingsystems
Efron Licht writes eblog: software articles by efron licht, a personal blog at eblog.fly.dev about programming and systems. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Gin is a bad software library”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-01, 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 point to Efron Licht's engineering blog as a source of real-world engineering practice writing. One commenter credits its author with advice that exposed weak spots in their own practice.
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?
- Gin is a bad software library2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-10
- Have you tried turning it off and on again?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-13
What Hacker News says?
I'm working on Mizu, a small Go web framework built around a simple idea: net/http is already good, frameworks should not fight it. I've kept running into the same problems in popular Go frameworks: hidden context mutation, magic middleware ordering, reflection-heavy binding, and APIs that slowly drift away from the standard library. The Gin ecosystem in particular has accumulated a lot of technical debt and footgun…
Comment linking /ginbad.html
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)”Submitted Gin is a bad software library as a story · 40 points
HN discussionI'm a huge fan of https://eblog.fly.dev/index.html . The author, Efron, very graciously advises me on a lot of little things around my engineering practice, and I've learned a huge amount about weird holes in my practice from industry dysfunction in a very short period of time from him.
Comment linking /index.html
on “Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?”Submitted Back End from the Beginning as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAuthor here. For those who don't care for the color scheme, my site has - a light theme: https://eblog.fly.dev/githubbad-light.html - a plain theme: https://eblog.fly.dev/githubbad-plain.html , added as part of the same update where I submitted this article. Both of those are available as PDFs as well (replace .html with .pdf). And of course you can use reader mode in your favorite browser.
Comment linking /githubbad-plain.html
on “GitHub and the Crime Against Software”Submitted Have you tried turning it off and on again? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub and the Crime Against Software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have you tried turning it off and on again? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starting Systems Programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advanced Go: Building a Reflection-Based Debug Console as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A practical guide to fast, small Docker images as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Start fast: booting go programs quickly with inittrace and nonblocking[T] as a story · 1 points
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