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Lambros Petrou
Personal blog · lambrospetrou.com/articlesprogrammingsystems
Lambros Petrou's personal blog at lambrospetrou.com covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Work related notes using Worklog”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lambros Petrou's posts on engineering practice: keeping a work log, hosting static sites on AWS, moving to Caddy, big tech interview prep, and feature flags.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My personal blog where I publish my thoughts.
Most-linked posts?
- Work related notes using Worklog3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-18
- Deploy your applications on a server with zero downtime2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-29
- Durable Objects (DO) – Unlimited single-threaded servers spread across the world2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-14
- Feature Flags2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-17
What Hacker News says?
I have also written about my "worklog" [1], what I call my own changelog at work. It's a simple Markdown file, versioned on my own Gitea instance. The worklog contains all notes about everything I spend my time at work. That is project work, meetings, discussions, todos, long-term todos and investigations, and anything I need to be able to check back later. I cannot count the number of times I went back and searched…
Comment linking /articles/the-worklog-format-1/
on “Keeping a Changelog at Work (2020)”Submitted Cloudflare Durable Objects Are Virtual Objects as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAWS has a pretty good doc for this specific case, actually - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website... But this is decent too - https://www.lambrospetrou.com/articles/migrate-to-aws-static...
Comment linking /articles/migrate-to-aws-static-website/
on “Ask HN: Best place to host a static website with SSL and CDN?”Submitted How to pass the interview for software engineering roles in Big Tech as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI really loves Caddy, it has replaced nginx in my go-to HTTP server. It's really simple and powerfull, one nice example is how simple you can deploy applications with zero downtine [1]. On testing HTTP requests, I'd suggest Hurl [2], (I'm one of the maintainer). You will trade Ruby unit tests for a tailored HTTP text file format but I think it can shine for this kind of migration. Tests will be run in parallel, real…
Comment linking /articles/server-deploy-scripts/
on “Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy”Submitted Love Letter to Hurl as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI totally agree that at higher levels System Design is required. That's why I have a whole section about System Design in the article. See https://www.lambrospetrou.com/articles/big-tech-software-int... I describe all the resources I read outside my day job's material. There are a lot of useful engineering blogs you can use, and with 1-2 books you can go very very far in learning the principles. Once you have the th…
Comment linking /articles/big-tech-software-interviews/
on “How to pass the interview for software engineering roles in Big Tech”Submitted Durable Objects (DO) – Unlimited single-threaded servers spread across the world as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOne reason for this post might be the fact that feature flags and related software/startups (Posthog, Launch Darkly and now Flagsmith) came up a lot here recently, such as - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611136 - https://www.lambrospetrou.com/articles/cicd-feature-flags/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520294
Comment linking /articles/cicd-feature-flags/
on “We bootstrap: Hitting $1.5M ARR with a super lean team”Submitted SaaS Pricing – What I want vs. What I offer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The perfect PaaS: Does it exist? Or impossible to build? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploy your applications on a server with zero downtime as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Durable Objects – Unlimited single-threaded servers spread across the world as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hurl Webscripts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted FokosDB: Strongly consistent storage DB ontop of Cloudflare Durable Objects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The worklog format 1.0 (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing the Cloudflare D1 REST API with Hurl as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploy your applications on a server with zero downtime as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Template for writing technical RFC docs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Docs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feature Flags as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast Feedback Loop and Delayed Gratification as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Work related notes using Worklog as a story · 1 points
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