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Holy on Dev
Personal blog · blog.jakubholy.netprogrammingproductivity
Holy on Dev is a personal blog at blog.jakubholy.net about programming and productivity. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-14, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked for a post on blue-green deployment as a way to do rolling deployments, with an example implementation, and for Clojure and enterprise web application development.
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.
Blog about effective software development
What Hacker News says?
This article provides one possible approach (and includes links to an example implementation): https://blog.jakubholy.net/2013/09/05/blue-green-deployment-...
Comment linking /2013/09/05/blue-green-deployment-without-breaking-sessions-with-haproxy-and-jetty/
on “Ask HN: How to do rolling deployments without Kubernetes?”Submitted What is simplicity in programming and why does it matter? as a story · 77 points
HN discussionI had first-hand experience with the way java developers avoid XML config. In my early days I wrote some javabean mapper framework but it wasn't liked by my peers becaused it was driven by XML. Back then EJB, Struts, and many web/enterprise frameworks used XML for config, so it was a no brainer to continue the trend. However the DX of XML in Java wasn't that great I have to admit. This is what made Spring so success…
Comment linking /translating-enterprise-spring-app-to-clojure/
on “Where to for Clojure and Enterprise Web Applications”Submitted Clojure is a trinity of language, REPL, and structural editor as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure is frustrating and it is a good thing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It will only take one hour (Why programmers suck at estimating, perils of dev) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Include interactive Clojure/Scrips snippets in a web page with SCI and friends as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simplicity in programming and why it matters as a story · 1 points
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