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Karol Galanciak
Personal blog · karolgalanciak.com/blogprogrammingstartups
Karol Galanciak's personal blog at karolgalanciak.com covers programming and startups. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Do. Or do not. There is no try – Object#try considered harmful”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal blog's post on the Ruby try() method and the "do or do not, there is no try" advice. The post is cited as a reference in a Kotlin vs. Java discussion about masked complexity.
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.
I help founders turn growth plans into product direction, the right team, and working software - and lead the changes alongside them.
Most-linked posts?
- Do. Or do not. There is no try – Object#try considered harmful2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-27
What Hacker News says?
It masks the complexity of your statement. I know in ruby we had the same issues with the “try()” method. Our rule was, do or do not, there is no try. :) More info: https://karolgalanciak.com/blog/2017/09/24/do-or-do-not-ther...
Comment linking /blog/2017/09/24/do-or-do-not-there-is-no-try-object-number-try-considered-harmful/
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HN discussionSubmitted Inheritance and define_method – how to make them work together as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problems with Validating ActiveRecord Models/Why State Validation Is a Bad Idea as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ember Tips: Computed Properties and Arrow Functions? Not a Good Idea as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kafka for Rubyists Mini Course as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Race Conditions on Rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Secret Weapon for Your Rails Apps – RPC with RabbitMQ and Hutch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From ActiveRecord Callbacks to Publish/Subscribe Pattern and Event-Driven Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Messages on Rails Part 3: RabbitMQ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Messages on Rails Part 2: Kafka as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indexes on Rails: How to Make the Most of Your Postgres Database as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trolling in Ruby – Implementing JavaScript-Like Maths as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails and Conditional Validations in Models as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails: The Case for before_validation Callback: Complex State Normalization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do. Or do not. There is no try – Object#try considered harmful as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to ActiveRecord and ActiveModel Attributes API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Test Driven Rails – Part 1 as a story · 1 points
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