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Kir Shatrov
Personal blog · kirshatrov.comprogrammingsystems
Kir Shatrov's personal blog at kirshatrov.com covers programming and systems. Since 2019, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Reverse engineering Claude Code”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts cover how Claude Code works internally and a January 2019 overview of background-job processing in Ruby and Rails. Commenters cite them as background, without judging the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Reverse engineering Claude Code3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-14
- The State of Background Jobs in 20192 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-19
What Hacker News says?
Background of how it works: https://kirshatrov.com/posts/claude-code-internals Prompt: https://gist.github.com/transitive-bullshit/487c9cb52c75a970...
Comment linking /posts/claude-code-internals
on “OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google”Submitted Ruby 3, Concurrency and the Ecosystem as a story · 237 points
HN discussionMy company heavily relies on Amazon SQS for background jobs. We use Redis as well but it is hard to run at scale. Hence, anything critical goes to SQS by default. SQS usage is so ubiquitous I can’t imagine anyone be interested in writing a blog post or presenting on a conference. Once you get used to SQS specifics (more than once delivery, message size limit, client/server tooling built, expiration settings, DLQ) I…
Comment linking /posts/state-of-background-jobs
on “Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?”Submitted Reverse engineering Claude Code as a story · 114 points
HN discussionI asked a couple of the Shopify engineers a a conference in late 2018: almost all of Shopify's web and background job processing is Ruby. They're quite open about it: https://www.slideshare.net/RedisLabs/redisday-london-2018-ho... https://kirshatrov.com/2019/01/03/state-of-background-jobs/
Comment linking /2019/01/03/state-of-background-jobs/
on “How to write fast code in Ruby on Rails”Submitted Meta's MySQL Fork You Never Knew About as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Organizations and Layers of Abstraction as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse Engineering Claude Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a Ractor-based web server as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tenant-based routing and consistent hashing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Environment variables considered evil (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a Ractor-based web server (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing job queue in Redis (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a Ractor-based web server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of Background Jobs in 2019 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a Ractor-based web server: part II as a story · 1 points
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