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Mike Wakerly
Personal blog · hoho.com/postsprogrammingstartups
Mike Wakerly's personal blog at hoho.com covers programming and startups. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Your tech stack is not the product”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mike Wakerly's personal site, linked for his kegbot keg-monitoring project and a post arguing 'your stack is not the product' when choosing a startup's tech stack. Comments only cite or credit it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
hoho.com is mike wakerly's internet home.
Most-linked posts?
- Your tech stack is not the product2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-12
What Hacker News says?
Don't give me too much credit, I wasn't the original creator of kegbot, I merely implemented my own version of the idea. Mike Wakerly deserves that credit: http://hoho.com/mike/ http://kegbot.org/wiki/Main_Page http://kegbot.org/project/index.php.html
Comment linking /mike/
on “Any hardware hackers here at YC?”Submitted Your tech stack is not the product as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Am in the process of starting my first SaaS as a solo founder and was looking at what languages to use Use the language you know best. Your tech stack is not the product: https://hoho.com/posts/your-stack-is-not-the-product/ As for what happened to Elm? It reached a local maxima. Evan didn't want its purity to be compromised by external JS interop which cut it off from most of the open source ecosystem. If you nev…
Comment linking /posts/your-stack-is-not-the-product/
on “Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?”