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Jimmy Miller
Personal blog · jimmyhmiller.github.ioprogrammingsystems
Jimmy Miller's personal blog at jimmyhmiller.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2022, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Intuition in Software Development”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on large, messy codebases, including a take on inconsistent code and microservices as an enjoyable work environment, and a project page called Empirical. Comments only link them.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Intuition in Software Development3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-12-07
- What follows from empirical software research?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-22
- "We ran out of columns"3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-08-03
- Not Another Technical Debt Article3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-15
- Advent of Papers: Elephant 20002 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-02
- Being Raised by the Internet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-24
- Advent of Papers (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-02
What Hacker News says?
https://jimmyhmiller.github.io/ugliest-beautiful-codebase Heres an alternate take of what a lack of consistency and a tendency to build microservices makes for an enjoyable work environment (and an admittedly ugly codebase)
Comment linking /ugliest-beautiful-codebase
on “Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases”Submitted "We ran out of columns" as a story · 1641 points
HN discussionhttps://jimmyhmiller.github.io/empirical
Comment linking /empirical
on “HTTPS: //Jimmyhmiller.github/Empirical”Submitted Being Raised by the Internet as a story · 837 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discovery Coding as a story · 253 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Software Anyways? Where Does It Exist? as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being Raised by the Internet as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not Another Technical Debt Article as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ugliest Beautiful Codebase as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Experience Building an Editor in Rust as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advent of Papers (2024) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted That will never change. Not here as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everybody Clap Your Hands as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will computers ever become easy to use? (1997) [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can OO and FP be reconciled? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intuition in Software Development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What follows from empirical software research? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being Stuck in Someone Else's Theory as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against a universal definition of 'type' [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advent of Papers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Structure and Legal Interpretation of Computer Programs [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond Being There: Making Remote Work Better as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Worlds: Mutability with Control as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advent of Papers: Elephant 2000 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against a Universal Definition of 'Type' as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Languages as Technical Artifacts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementation Is Semantic Interpretation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intuition in Software Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intuition in Software Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advent of Papers: Elephant 2000 as a story · 1 points
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