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Mike Bifulco

Personal blog · mikebifulco.com/posts · on HN as irreverentmikeprogrammingwebstartups

Mike Bifulco's personal blog at mikebifulco.com covers programming, web and startups. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “What it's like to migrate a high-traffic website from Gatsby to Next.js”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for a post on how Stripe uses friction logs, a method for finding pain points in tools. One commenter used it for internal developer tools and reported success with the practice.

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.

Articles on React, Next.js, startup building, and developer advocacy from Mike Bifulco - CTO, Y Combinator alum, and creator of Tiny Improvements newsletter.

The author on HN?

irreverentmike · 4 karma · member since 2019

CTO and co-founder @ Craftwork (S23). Writing about design, dev, and building startups at mikebifulco.com/newsletter. Co-founder APIs You Won't Hate. Ex: Stripe, Google, Microsoft

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Most-linked posts?

  1. What it's like to migrate a high-traffic website from Gatsby to Next.js
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. aleda145 · 2026-10-11
    I've done this for internal dev tools! It's amazing how many assumptions you have about everything. I've great success with friction logs: https://mikebifulco.com/posts/how-stripe-uses-friction-logs If you are a platform team, going through this with your internal customers is both driving adoption and making your tools better. Highly recommended!

    Comment linking /posts/how-stripe-uses-friction-logs

    on “I paid people to try and follow my README”
  2. irreverentmike · 2022-01-02

    Submitted Next.js/MDX: automatically add ids and links to subheadings (h1/h2) in articles as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. creativedg · 2022-03-16

    Submitted What it's like to migrate a high-traffic website from Gatsby to Next.js as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. irreverentmike · 2021-12-04

    Submitted What I learned from generating blog posts with AI as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. irreverentmike · 2022-03-02

    Submitted My experience migrating a high-traffic website from Gatsby to Next.js as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. irreverentmike · 2021-12-13

    Submitted No Floating Promises: an eslint rule to prevent async code errors as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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