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Lewis Campbell
Personal blog · lewiscampbell.tech/blog · on HN as LAC-Techprogramming
Lewis Campbell's personal blog at lewiscampbell.tech covers programming. Since 2021, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “I think about Zig and Rust”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- I think about Zig and Rust3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-01-17
- The Business Case for Vanilla JavaScript3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-30
- Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-08
- Getting Started with Randomised Testing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-05
- Advanced Testing and Determinism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-04
- Saying Goodbye to Agile2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-14
- Rust Is Just a Tool2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-04
What Hacker News says?
Hello, I'm interested in local first, logs, events, and these days getting into storage systems. Business facing senior dev generalist background, but avid "student" of distributed systems. Business wise have been mostly in logistics/traceability, and agtech. Trying to get a job about what I'm passionate about (see above). Location: NZ Remote: Yes, experienced Willing to relocate: Depends where! Technologies: was a…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)”Submitted NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency as a story · 310 points
HN discussionI'm a bit pessimistic about this now, and largely given up beating the drum Even in industries where customers are on extremely bad connections [0], I couldn't convince people to give up their bloated component libraries or cache things in indexedDB. Fact is not many web developers know how to write for these environments and not many businesses will incentivize for it, even when their customers complain. Though the…
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on “Page Weight Matters (2012)”Submitted Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs as a story · 163 points
HN discussionWhat's stopping you doing that in 2022? That's how I wrote my homepage https://lewiscampbell.tech
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on “What ever happened to webrings? (2015)”Submitted Do Files want to be Actors? as a story · 120 points
HN discussionI've spent the last couple of years working in domains where users have very limited connectivity. In-fact I lived in one myself[0]. It can be a bit of a mind shift for urban people to internalise that the internet is not always there. [0] https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/220205.html
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on “The End of Localhost”Submitted Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs as a story · 35 points
HN discussionLocation: New Zealand Remote: Yes (contract basis - no local LLC required) Willing to relocate: US only Technologies: Javascript & Typescript, with a focus on indexedDB with some react. Very into the whole PWA thing. Also currently focusing on the agricultural sector, but interested in other industries, especially ones with connectivity/bandwidth issues. Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewisandrewcampbell/ ht…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021)”Submitted I think about Zig and Rust as a story · 7 points
HN discussionRemote | https://lewiscampbell.tech | info@lewiscampbell.tech Does your web app need to work offline? Maybe you’re looking to expand into new markets. Maybe you have customers in remote areas. Or maybe you’re just struggling with synchronisation and conflicts. Regardless, getting apps offline-ready can be challenging and time consuming. My offline-ready service takes place in 3 phases. We'll start by identifying pot…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2023)”Submitted The Business Case for Vanilla JavaScript as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI used to specialize in Agtech as a consultant. It's a weird space. [Disclaimer, this is my experience of the Australia and NZ scene, not much Silicon Valley involved] The gap between "people who know ag" and "people who know tech" is just vast. And I sensed no great urgency to bridge the gap. I tried myself - talked to every farmer I could, moved to a working farm, even had a go at weighing cattle and applying trea…
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on “Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture”Submitted How I think about Zig and Rust as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've been working hard to up skill on the consistency and distributed systems sides of things. General recommendations: - Designing Data Intensive Applicatons. Great overview of... basically everything, and every chapter has dozens of references. Can't recommend it enough. - Read papers. I've had lots of a-ha moments going to wikipedia and looking up the oldest paper on a topic (wtf was in the water in Massachusetts…
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on “The broad set of computer science problems faced at cloud database companies”Submitted AIgnostic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Short Reflection on being Offline for 24 hours as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saying Goodbye to Agile as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Randomised Testing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Safety in Programming Languages Is a Means to an End as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Sheep Ate My Internet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Guide to Agile for English Speakers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saying Goodbye to Agile as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Business Case for Vanilla JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Is Just a Tool as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reading English from 1000 Ad as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Is Just a Tool as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Insecure Evangelism of LLM Maximalists as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Randomised Testing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I think about Zig and Rust as a story · 2 points
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