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julik live
Personal blog · live.julik.nlprogramming
julik live is a personal blog at live.julik.nl about programming. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “For modern development Javascript indeed is a shit language”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A personal blog running for nearly 20 years, linked for posts on JavaScript (including a reply defending it as worth learning) and on people ops and teamwork. Also cited for HTTP request concurrency.
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.
Infinite time between bikeshedding and yak shaving. A VFX artist and software developer with opinions (but also goodwill). Opinions are all mine.
Most-linked posts?
- For modern development Javascript indeed is a shit language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-29
- Creating a Gem for Idempotency Keys2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-26
What Hacker News says?
Context: the article is a reply to another post on the front-page: http://live.julik.nl/2013/05/javascript-is-shit I probably should have titled it "Javascript isn't a shit language, you just need to learn it" to avoid this ambiguity: I'm not claiming it's a "must learn" for modern dev ;)
Comment linking /2013/05/javascript-is-shit
on “For modern development, Javascript is just something you need to learn”Submitted For modern development Javascript indeed is a shit language as a story · 160 points
HN discussionhttp://live.julik.nl Been there for nearly 20 years, but haven't been posting much the last few years. Mostly because most of the things I find important are the "people ops" and teamwork-related, and this can escalate quickly
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted We Need to Talk as a story · 53 points
HN discussionEDIT: My reply below is wrong - you _can_ deal with in-flight requests with E-Tags as well using the if-match header. I had only seen them used with if-none-match. TIL. E-Tags would probably not help here, because the client won't have a tag to send along with its request until after the original response returns. But the thing we're trying to prevent in the first place is multiple concurrent requests being processe…
Comment linking /2021/12/actually-creating-a-gem-for-idempotency-keys
on “Don't Disable Buttons”Submitted What is a reduction and why Fibers are the answer for Ruby concurrency (2021) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Gem for Idempotency Keys as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Messages versus Slots as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
