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Grinding Gears

Company blog · engineering.freeagent.comprogrammingweb

Grinding Gears is the company blog at engineering.freeagent.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2011, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 54 times, most often “How We Make Architectural Decisions”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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54mentions?
20HN people?
2011–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

FreeAgent's engineering blog is linked in one HN 'Who is hiring' post from August 2015 advertising senior engineering roles in Edinburgh. The comment describes the company and its hiring, not the posts.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How We Make Architectural Decisions
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-11
  2. External authentication scripts in OpenVPN the right way
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. lylo · 2015-08-03
    FreeAgent, Edinburgh or REMOTE (UK) http://www.freeagent.com We're looking for a senior software engineer and an engineering manager to come and work on our flagship product FreeAgent. We're a growing team of 85, based in Edinburgh but with remote staff around the UK (7 engineers are fully remote). We have a lot of happy customers (40,000+, NPS=76!), a lot of traffic (13 million+ page views/mo), and some lovely staf…

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    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”
  2. lylo · 2014-05-23

    Submitted Upgrading to Ruby 2.1 (and why complex regexes will inevitably hurt you) as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  3. iambot · 2012-01-30

    Submitted CoffeeScript: two sugars, no bitter aftertaste as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  4. cornet · 2020-05-14

    Submitted How to Measure Pointless Things? as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  5. lylo · 2017-02-07

    Submitted Running a high-availability SaaS infrastructure without breaking the bank as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  6. tobscher · 2019-12-17

    Submitted Serverless: From POC to Production as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  7. lylo · 2019-05-14

    Submitted We love accessibility (and you should too) as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  8. lylo · 2019-03-26

    Submitted Micro-Batching Event Data into Amazon Redshift as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  9. sarcas · 2016-01-08

    Submitted Many timezones, one team – how do you stand up? as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  10. tobscher · 2020-05-19

    Submitted Working from Home: The Desks of FreeAgent Engineering as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  11. lylo · 2011-11-29

    Submitted Speeding up SSL as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  12. tobscher · 2020-04-03

    Submitted Tooled Up. A brief history of SaaS tools we’ve loved (and lost) as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  13. tobscher · 2019-09-11

    Submitted How We Make Architectural Decisions as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  14. lylo · 2016-03-11

    Submitted A brief history of mobile development at FreeAgent as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  15. cornet · 2013-02-07

    Submitted Moving data centres in 9 minutes as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  16. lylo · 2019-10-31

    Submitted How to Write a Good Bug Report. Discuss as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  17. lylo · 2015-01-19

    Submitted FreeAgent's AV Adventure as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  18. adambutler · 2020-12-21

    Submitted Moving 100k customers from co-lo data centres to the cloud. With zero downtime as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  19. cornet · 2020-06-17

    Submitted How I made personal development work for me as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  20. tobscher · 2019-11-06

    Submitted Head in the Clouds: Our Infrastructure Migration to AWS as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  21. testchili · 2017-01-25

    Submitted FreeAgent Testermonials: Making user stories valuable with exit criteria as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  22. caiusdurling · 2016-01-19

    Submitted FreeAgent's AV Adventure Continues – 12 Months On as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  23. lylo · 2015-03-04

    Submitted Complexity will bite you in production as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  24. histoiredebabar · 2021-02-22

    Submitted Unpacking Amazon ECS as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  25. lylo · 2015-08-21

    Submitted System hardening leads to CVE-2015-3341 and fun with DTrace as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  26. lylo · 2014-01-24

    Submitted Using Atlas Probes to diagnose intermittent performance issues as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  27. WillMatty · 2019-12-02

    Submitted Let's Talk Tools as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  28. cfabianski · 2016-02-05

    Submitted Many timezones, one team – How do WE stand up? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  29. lylo · 2012-03-23

    Submitted CoffeeScript with jQuery Sprinkles as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  30. g__b · 2022-06-16

    Submitted A 12-step guide to AWS cost optimisation as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion

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