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feenk blog
Company blog · blog.feenk.comprogrammingsystems
feenk blog is the company blog at blog.feenk.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link feenk's posts on Glamorous Toolkit, its moldable development tool, and on research suggesting developers spend most of their time looking things up. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Stories by the creators of Glamorous Toolkit and Moldable Development.
Most-linked posts?
- Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-28
- Glamorous Toolkit is now beta2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-24
What Hacker News says?
Truly sorry to hear about your experiences. If you are not explicitly a founder, just do not work for companies that doesn't actually have at lease a couple of employees doing non-managerial IT work. Otherwise the founders may be inexperienced in managing IT teams and consider it okay to pile on forever more work to a stagnant IT staff and be down-right exploitative like in your first example. When interviewing for…
Comment linking /developers-spend-most-of-their-time-figuri-7aj1ocjhe765vvlln8qqbuhto/
on “Ask HN: Differences between Berlin tech/startup culture and NYC culture?”Submitted Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out as a story · 482 points
HN discussionAccording to some studies between 58% and 68% of their time https://blog.feenk.com/developers-spend-most-of-their-time-f...
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on “Ask HN: Is there any data on how much time developers spend looking stuff up?”Submitted Glamorous Toolkit is now beta as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe author is not unwilling to explain, he has lots of experience trying to explain and knows how hard it can be. The best single sentence description, IMHO, is that GT (Glamorous Toolkit) is the current manifestation, implementation, proof of concept of the idea that making systems explainable through mouldable development is very powerful. Furthermore it is a very nice tool in its own right (again IMHO). Saying 'G…
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on “What is Glamorous Toolkit v1.0?”Submitted Moldable Database Analysis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Glamorous Toolkit v0.7.1214 Beta as a story · 1 points
HN discussion