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Julik Tarkhanov
Personal blog · blog.julik.nl · on HN as julikprogrammingweb
Julik Tarkhanov's personal blog at blog.julik.nl covers programming and web. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Tool Complexity Might Have a Cure: Those People Who Say No (2024)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Engineering manager and developer
Most-linked posts?
- Tool Complexity Might Have a Cure: Those People Who Say No (2024)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-29
- Exploring batch caching of trees2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-04
- Why Can't We Just Send an HTML Email2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-24
What Hacker News says?
I wrote https://blog.julik.nl/2024/03/those-people-who-say-no in response to that Mastodon thread back when it was posted. I fully agree with the article. The problem, I believe, is that "getting off the treadmill" is incredibly hard if you have no authority to push for "getting off the treadmill", and when you get labeled as a problem when you suggest the "getting off the treadmill". I do believe that with the end…
Comment linking /2024/03/those-people-who-say-no
on “The Frontend Treadmill”Submitted Shardines: SQLite3 Database-per-Tenant with ActiveRecord as a story · 255 points
HN discussionWe haven't forgotten anything - rather we were forced to remain silent. https://blog.julik.nl/2024/03/those-people-who-say-no I may do a writeup on how the mentioned things are very indicative of a certain org failure, since I've seen something very similar first hand.
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on “What have we forgotten?”Submitted Writing a tiny undo/redo stack in JavaScript as a story · 170 points
HN discussionPreviously: https://blog.julik.nl/2020/04/do-not-use-tickets-in-commit-t... with honorable mention of conventional commits. There is nothing conventional about them - it's ceremony that's wasting valuable characters that can have a better use. The article is 100% on the mark.
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on “Stop Using Conventional Commits”Submitted Supercharge SQLite with Ruby Functions as a story · 159 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO as a story · 116 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby as a story · 99 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring batch caching of trees as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be Careful with GIDs in Rails as a story · 44 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hexatetrahedral Rails as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speeding Up SQLite Inserts as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted The little Random that could as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Musings on Module Registration (and Why It Could Be Better in Rails) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing web-apps with subdomains using Zeroconf as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Can't We Just Send an HTML Email as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thank you, but I prefer it my way as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted With LLMs, Drive Manually as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Can't We Just Send an HTML Email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The bare minimum you need to use Cache-Control as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Template-Scoped CSS in Rails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Surcharge of Big Tech as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We have to re-learn to walk alone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your workflow system just runs DAGs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dreams of Marshalable Stacks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intuitive UIs support user habits as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scheduling things in user's time zone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perception frequently matters more than legibility as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turning your Apple Calendar into a time tracker as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Over Time – some tips on dealing with the challenges of temporal data as a story · 1 points
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