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Manuel Kießling
Personal blog · manuel.kiessling.net · on HN as ManuelKiesslingprogrammingsystems
Manuel Kießling's personal blog at manuel.kiessling.net covers programming and systems. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “Applying The Clean Architecture to Go applications”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Covers topics on architecting, building, deploying and running software and systems for the web based on open source tools with lean methodologies.
Most-linked posts?
- Applying The Clean Architecture to Go applications3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-09-28
- Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-04-03
- What if software shipped with a software engineer? (2025)2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-12-04
- Object-orientation and inheritance in JavaScript: a comprehensive explanation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-23
What Hacker News says?
What makes a car go fast? The brakes: https://manuel.kiessling.net/2011/04/07/why-developing-witho...
Comment linking /2011/04/07/why-developing-without-tests-is-like-driving-a-car-without-brakes-2/
on “Is something bugging you?”Submitted Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age as a story · 421 points
HN discussionhttps://manuel.kiessling.net Covers topics on architecting, building, deploying and running software and systems for the web based on open source tools with lean methodologies.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted "We need to work longer" - Why this is not what you want to say as a story · 63 points
HN discussionShameless plug of my 2012 blog post where I demonstrate The Clean Architecure for Go applications: https://manuel.kiessling.net/2012/09/28/applying-the-clean-a...
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on “A Theory of Software Architecture”Submitted Applying The Clean Architecture to Go applications as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI think what people want in the long term is truly malleable software: https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/11/04/what-if-software-shi...
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on “Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas”Submitted Applying The Clean Architecture to Go applications as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAs per your request: https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-develop...
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)”Submitted Building Go web applications with a clean architecture as a story · 5 points
HN discussion...and here you go: https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-develop... Feedback more than welcome!
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)”Submitted Writing Go applications with a clean architecture as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere is an extensive step-by-step tutorial which describes in detail how to create and deploy a React-based web app frontend using TypeScript and Redux Toolkit on top of a Node.js based AWS Lambda backend with a DynamoDB database, connect and integrate them through API Gateway and CloudFront, and explains how to codify and automate the required cloud infrastructure and deployment process using Terraform. The resulti…
on “You don't need that CORS request”Submitted Object-orientation and inheritance in JavaScript: a comprehensive explanation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's a shameless plug, but I just have to throw in http://manuel.kiessling.net/2012/09/28/applying-the-clean-ar...
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on “Better Software Design with Clean Architecture”Submitted MCP as a Service: an open MCP server management platform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSorry, that's not minimalism. gwern.net isn't either; I'd call that "brutalism" instead. THIS is minimalism: https://manuel.kiessling.net Precisely in the sense of "NOT a lot going on at all times". Just the content, presented pleasently. And importantly, it's not only minimalism in look-and-feel, but also technically: even a long post with an embedded image like https://manuel.kiessling.net/2021/05/02/tutorial-reac…
on “Design of This Website (2021)”Submitted How Cassandra’s inner workings relate to performance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMine is https://manuel.kiessling.net . I generate it as static HTML with Hugo.
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on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”Submitted Applying The Clean Architecture to Go applications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere‘s a very detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to realize resource-separation without giving up single sign-on with AWS: https://manuel.kiessling.net/2020/12/29/single-sign-on-and-r... Only one of several ways to achieve that, but one that works really well for me.
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on “Have lots of AWS accounts”Submitted What if software shipped with a software engineer? (2025) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's a lot like my own experience: http://manuel.kiessling.net/2012/08/04/a-year-of-go/
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on “What I've Learned About Learning”Submitted SiteBuilder: Edit Web Content with Natural Language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionClearly beneficial for skilled people imho, I wrote about that here [0] recently. [0] https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-develop...
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on “The problem with "vibe coding"”Submitted Object-orientation and inheritance in JavaScript: a comprehensive explanation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt’s probably not answering all your questions, but https://manuel.kiessling.net/2021/05/02/tutorial-react-singl... might be worth a read. Also, although not React/Node, the thoughts laid out in https://manuel.kiessling.net/2012/09/28/applying-the-clean-a... have served me well over the years.
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on “Ask HN: Well architected React and Node repos?”Submitted Cost and performance optimization of Amazon Athena through data partitioning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionVery similar, but with visualizations of how things integrate with each other, and concrete code examples: https://manuel.kiessling.net/2020/12/29/single-sign-on-and-r...
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on “An AWS account just for getting into other AWS accounts”Submitted Converting a running physical machine into a KVM virtual machine (2013) as a story · 1 points
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