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Lloyd Atkinson
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Lloyd Atkinson's personal blog at lloydatkinson.net covers programming and web. Since 2022, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Eight points for one team is two points for another team”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Software engineer writing about the web, design systems, and building software.
Most-linked posts?
- Eight points for one team is two points for another team4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-04-16
- My thoughts on what I want to do as a software developer4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-05-30
- Laughing Off the Dark Mode Lobby3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-18
- Consider Disabling Browser Push Notifications on Family and Friends Devices2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-12-01
- Favour TypeScript Types over Interfaces2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-21
- Comparing Git Mirror Options2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-22
What Hacker News says?
Meta commentary, most comments take this like a personal matter. The biggest picture feels obvious but unspoken: there's a massive dearth of good things to get up to, to commit to, even for the capable & willing. The job ought, to a degree, be it's own reward, especially for knowledge/creative work. Yeah, there could well be a host of other concerns/blockers. And maybe this person is just stuck & unable to find good…
Comment linking /posts/2022/my-thoughts-on-what-i-want-to-do-as-a-software-developer/
on “Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around”Submitted Cloudflare Is Breaking My SVGs? as a story · 159 points
HN discussionhttps://lloydatkinson.net My personal site where I write my thoughts, mostly software related. Will be adding personal projects to it in time.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Eight points for one team is two points for another team as a story · 57 points
HN discussionSorry to hear you're going through this. I can definitely understand some of where you are coming from too. Earlier in the year I wrote a bunch of stuff as work was making me fed up and very low. It's doing the same again now so I'm rereading what I wrote. Sometimes writing things down can release a bit of mental pressure. https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/my-thoughts-on-what...
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on “Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job”Submitted Laughing Off the Dark Mode Lobby as a story · 56 points
HN discussionI find this extremely relatable actually. So much so I wrote two articles on it. You're not alone OP - micromanagement, pointless requirements that have been (sometimes deliberately) misinterpreted from user requests, treating developers as worthless replacable tools, constant time pressure, big Agile ™, is honestly killing the industry. https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/my-thoughts-on-what... https://www.llo…
Comment linking /posts/2022/one-teams-eight-points-is-another-teams-two-points/
on “Ask HN: I love programming but hate the industry. Can anyone relate?”Submitted Some Thoughts as I Sit Here in Another Standup as a story · 34 points
HN discussionYou will definitely like Astro then! I wrote an article on using (P)react and Astro if you're interested! https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/writing-a-fuzzy-sea...
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on “Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites”Submitted Eight points for one team is two points for another team as a story · 17 points
HN discussionNeat, my site is on the list but don’t remember if I submitted it before. I made some notes on implementing IndieWeb WebMentions here [1]. It’s like a decentralised/psuedo-fediverse commenting system that features replies and likes etc. [1]: https://www.lloydatkinson.net/notes/19/
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on “Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time”Submitted Default Exports in JavaScript Modules Are Terrible as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI wrote similar thoughts about all this cargo culting here https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/one-teams-eight-poi...
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on “How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum”Submitted My thoughts on what I want to do as a software developer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLooks interesting - I would like to try this library out to compare it with Fuse that I wrote about here https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/writing-a-fuzzy-sea... Also as this is a new library I highly recommend either fully dropping commonjs support or at least creating a ES module version and showing how to use that instead.
Comment linking /posts/2022/writing-a-fuzzy-search-component-with-preact-and-fuse-for-astro/
on “Show HN: uFuzzy.js – A tiny, efficient fuzzy search that doesn't suck”Submitted My Thoughts on What I Want to Do as a Software Developer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTypeScript's type system can be very powerful and flexible - creating types at build time in a manner of speaking. Here's an article I wrote on an aspect of this called mapped types. You can see how types can be composed of other types. https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/going-further-with-...
Comment linking /posts/2022/going-further-with-typescript-part-1/
on “Deepkit – High-Performance TypeScript Framework”Submitted Reducing .NET AWS Lambda Cold Starts by Adding Memory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHad a quick look but I was surprised to see using a Set. Personally I use a plain string union. If I need to lookup a value based on that I’ll usually create a record (which is just a stricter object). Typescript will error if I tried to add a duplicate. This is all enforced at build time, whereas using a Set only happens at runtime. type Fruit = ‘apple’ | ‘banana’; const lookup: Record<Fruit, string> = { ‘apple’: ‘…
Comment linking /posts/2023/favour-typescript-types-over-interfaces/
on “TypeScript enums: use cases and alternatives”Submitted Comparing Git Mirror Options as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo demo to try it out? How does it compare to Fuse? I used that recently to write a search component in Preact for my site. https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/writing-a-fuzzy-sea... I might make a branch to try out Lyra and compare results.
Comment linking /posts/2022/writing-a-fuzzy-search-component-with-preact-and-fuse-for-astro/
on “Lyra: Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine in TypeScript”Submitted Comparing Git Mirror Options as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote an article on a specific part of scrum/agile: estimation and why most organisations are ruining team morale. https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/one-teams-eight-poi...
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on “How to distort Scrum until it no longer works”Submitted Favour TypeScript Types over Interfaces as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThen you also get absolute scum bags pushing that stuff via push notifications too https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/consider-disabling-...
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on “Chrome disabling uBlock Origin is a serious security threat”Submitted Consider Disabling Browser Push Notifications on Family and Friends Devices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI thought this is related to another post [1] about dark mode, but it's something different. Even glancing at the Feedly screenshot made me this it is really about dark mode. [1] https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/the-dark-mode-lobby...
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on “Dark UX doesn't work in the long run”Submitted Eight Points for One Team Is Two Points for Another Team as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCreating many boolean states leads to an explosion of complexity and states. You can use a finite state machine to replace these states as I wrote here: https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/modelling-workflows...
Comment linking /posts/2022/modelling-workflows-with-finite-state-machines-in-dotnet/
on “Flags Are a Code Smell (2014)”Submitted Eight Points for One Team Is Two Points for Another Team as a story · 1 points
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