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maxdeviant.com
Personal blog · maxdeviant.com/posts · on HN as maxdeviantprogrammingsystems
maxdeviant.com is a personal blog at maxdeviant.com about programming and systems. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Head in the Zed Cloud”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post titled "Zed is our office" about the code editor Zed. The one comment defends Zed against complaints in the thread and does not discuss the post's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Head in the Zed Cloud2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-10
- Another Nix Success Story2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-05
What Hacker News says?
There is a lot of complaints about Zed in the comments here. I don't think that they are "hate", per se; they all definitely care about Zed and want it to succeed. I daily drive Zed for work across several languages and I love it. I use a lot of its features, like the git interface, agentic editing, etc. I might even consider paying for Pro in the future if I want unlimited edit predictions. However, all of these co…
Comment linking /posts/2025/head-in-the-zed-cloud/
on “Zed is our office”Submitted Head in the Zed Cloud as a story · 104 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another Nix Success Story as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another Nix Success Story as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The High Cost of Caring as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything is a Value (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reviving Drop Seven and a Half Years Later as a story · 1 points
HN discussion