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Erik Stenman
Personal blog · happihacking.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Erik Stenman writes Happi Hacking, a personal blog at happihacking.com about programming and systems. Since 2024, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The Gnome Village Threads Fight. Gnomes Cooperate”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link happihacking.com for Erik Stenman's writing on the BEAM and Erlang, including his BEAM book and a post on developing inside dev containers with Emacs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
HappiHacking helps engineers and technical leaders understand difficult systems before those systems surprise them.
Most-linked posts?
- The Gnome Village Threads Fight. Gnomes Cooperate4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-11-07
- /blog/posts/2023/dev-containers-emacs/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-23
What Hacker News says?
https://happihacking.com/images/thebeambooks.jpg
Comment linking /images/thebeambooks.jpg
on “Why I wrote the BEAM book”Submitted Why I wrote the BEAM book as a story · 613 points
HN discussionhttps://happihacking.com/blog/posts/2023/dev-containers-emac... Looks pretty useable to me...
Comment linking /blog/posts/2023/dev-containers-emacs/
on “Show HN: Lapdev, a new open-source remote dev environment management software”Submitted The Gnome Village Threads Fight. Gnomes Cooperate as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhuh? are you doing a bit or just didn't look in to it at all? even emacs supports it: https://happihacking.com/blog/posts/2023/dev-containers-emac...
Comment linking /blog/posts/2023/dev-containers-emacs/
on “Developing Inside a Container (2022)”Submitted The Beam Book, Second Edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot books, but some inspiring resources. FModel [0] is a set of patterns for functional reactive DDD on the basis of event sourcing. In particular the Decider pattern is a great way to model aggregates, and test them using Scenario's that read like Gherkin in code (given.. when.. then). Combines well with actors to represent aggregates. On the BEAM used by Erlang, Elixir, and Gleam actors are called processes, and t…
Comment linking /blog/posts/2025/the-gnome-village/
on “Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf]”Submitted Gatekeepers: The Traffic Controllers of the Gnome Village as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Gnome Village as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices Are Not an Excuse for Chaos as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Gnome Village: Treads fight, gnomes cooperate (2025) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Gnome Village as a story · 1 points
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