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Jilles van Gurp

Personal blog · jillesvangurp.com · on HN as jillesvangurpprogrammingproductivity

Jilles van Gurp's personal blog at jillesvangurp.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-25, and you can follow it by feed.

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2012–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2024

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Jilles van Gurp's personal website, which one commenter called beautiful and said they had watched evolve over time. The comment also points to the GitHub repo for the site's source.

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.

The author on HN?

jillesvangurp · 21,929 karma · member since 2018

Berlin based backend developer. My handle jillesvangurp is globally unique and I'm easy to find if you need to. I work as a CTO for FORMATION (https://formationxyz.com). We provide AI consulting, and also work with asset tracking technology to provide solutions for manufacturing and logistics. Check my personal website for more details: https://www.jillesvangurp.com

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Brajeshwar · 2024-02-02Recommends
    While looking for Pandoc + Make for Website templates, I stumbled on the Website of Jilles van Gurp[1] (hi @jillesvangurp[2]) and I have seen it evolved over time. It is beautiful[3]. 1. https://www.jillesvangurp.com 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jillesvangurp 3. https://github.com/jillesvangurp/www.jillesvangurp.com

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    on “Pandoc”
  2. Submitted Keep Your Dependencies Updated as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. I never really liked testcontainers. Too complicated. And I don't want to have my tests make too many assumptions about what level of control there is over their environment. IMHO it's just the wrong place to be messing with docker. I don't like layering abstractions on top of abstractions that were fine to begin with. Docker-compose is pretty much perfect for the job. An added complexity is that the before/after se…

    Comment linking /blog/2016-05-25-functional-tests-and-flakyness.html

    on “Testcontainers”
  4. Submitted Scrum: Agile Madness as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. https://jillesvangurp.com

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    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  6. Submitted Quora and a bad user experience as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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