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Monadical Consulting
Company blog · monadical.com/posts · on HN as nikisweetingprogrammingai
Monadical Consulting is the company blog at monadical.com, writing about programming and ai. Since 2020, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 75 times, most often “Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (27) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Monadical's posts on remote team communication, especially how Zulip's topic-based structure keeps knowledge searchable, and on structured LLM output. Most links appear in the company's hiring posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 27 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Monadical is a full-stack software development consultancy. We specialize in full-stack web development and custom software solutions.
Most-linked posts?
- Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-06
- /posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two-zulip.html3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-16
- Why should you use an ORM (Object Relational Mapper)?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-08
- /team.html2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-03
- All Systems Are Human Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-20
- Why should you use an Object Relational Mapper?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-02
- A Review of the Top Tools for Generating LLM Structured Output2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-20
What Hacker News says?
So happy for you, thats a wonderful milestone! I love especially that you share all the nitty-gritty details that so many would hold back (e.g. raw revenue/profit numbers, where bootstrapping savings came from, failures along the way, etc.). It's so important for people to share success stories without sugar coating the difficulties, good, undiluted positive feedback provides so more information than generic negativ…
Comment linking /principles.html
on “My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder”Submitted Moving from Macbook to Linux as a story · 517 points
HN discussionTo all the people asking about self-hosted alternatives, I can recommend zulip[0], and this article[1] explaining why. [0] https://zulip.com/ [1] https://monadical.com/posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two...
Comment linking /posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two-zulip.html
on “Slack AI Training with Customer Data”Submitted Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer as a story · 106 points
HN discussionI actually think Zulip is an exception to this, because its Stream>Topic hierarchy encourages organized conversations. At my org, we consider Zulip to be an archive of sorts, and make an effort (a small one, because Zulip's UX makes it natural) to organize our communication such that it serves as a source of information for a future date. I wrote a whole article about this a while back: https://monadical.com/posts/h…
Comment linking /posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two-zulip.html
on “If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room”Submitted Fitting all human knowledge in a box as a story · 40 points
HN discussionPreviously at EI2030, we were using Discord, and it wasn't easy to find and keep track of information as we were growing. We've transitioned to Zulip and couldn't be happier. The article from monadical describes it best: "...[Zulip] creates an organized repository of knowledge as a side effect" Thank you to the Zulip team! https://monadical.com/posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two... https://ei2030.zulipchat.com/
Comment linking /posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two-zulip.html
on “Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat”Submitted Vibe code isn't meant to be reviewed as a story · 19 points
HN discussionMonadical.com | Senior iOS Engineer | Full-Time | Montreal / Colombia| Remote We're a full-stack consultancy building software that outlasts us. We have a wide variety of interesting projects such as building unified data formats for neuroscience labs to share datasets, developing custom medical software for doctors, creating platforms for real estate agencies, and more. We're looking to hire a senior iOS Engineer t…
Comment linking /team.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Mindfulness in TypeScript code branching, or how to if/else as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMonadical.com | Senior Full-Stack Engineer / Product Manager / Partner | Full-Time | Montreal / Colombia| REMOTE We're a full-stack consultancy building software that outlasts us. We have a wide variety of interesting projects such as building unified data formats for neuroscience labs to share datasets, developing custom medical software for doctors, creating platforms for real estate agencies, and more. We're grow…
Comment linking /team.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)”Submitted Building a Ticketing System with Solana Mobile and Metaplex Foundation Umi as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere are many solutions for constrained/structured generation with LLMs these days, here is a blog post my employer published about this a while back: https://monadical.com/posts/how-to-make-llms-speak-your-lang... I'm partial to Outlines lately, but they all have various upsides and downsides. OpenAI even natively added support for this on their platform recently: https://openai.com/index/introducing-structured-ou…
Comment linking /posts/how-to-make-llms-speak-your-language.html
on “Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint”Submitted All Systems Are Human Systems as a story · 4 points
HN discussionZulip is awesome because it's async- first , I would argue that it's a chat platform only incidentally. It's primarily a forum / knowledgebase for us. https://monadical.com/posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two...
Comment linking /posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two-zulip.html
on “Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat”Submitted TypeScript Validators Jamboree: Review of TypeScript Validation Libraries as a story · 3 points
HN discussionZulip has been absolutely pivotal in our company's remote work setup. It becomes a searchable knolwledgebase as a side-effect of its threading model (the exact opposite of the pile of unorganized mess that Slack usually devolves into): https://monadical.com/posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two...
Comment linking /posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two-zulip.html
on “Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat”Submitted To Fine-Tune or Not Fine-Tune? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA big benefit of the organization provided by every message being in a topic is that it makes finding this more efficient. E.g. if you remember that Steve made a joke about donuts in the conversation, you can search for messages sent by Steve mentioning donuts, find the topic, and from there find the actual conversation. I do this to find months-old or years-old conversations several times a week. If you're curious…
Comment linking /posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two-zulip.html
on “Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat”Submitted Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMonadical.com | Senior Full-Stack Engineer / DevOps Engineer | Full-Time | Montreal / Colombia| REMOTE We're a full-stack consultancy, committed to building software that outlasts us. We have a wide variety of interesting projects including building unified data formats for neuroscience labs to share datasets, developing custom medical software for doctors, and creating platforms for real estate agencies. We're grow…
Comment linking /team.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Technical solutions to tackle AI bias as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMonadical | Multiple Engineering roles | Full-time | Remote | monadical.com We're a fully-remote development consultancy that is growing quickly. Looking primarily for senior developers with experience in Unity/gaming, Rust, frontend/React, full-stack, and dev ops. Project management or sales experience is a strong plus, but everyone doing PM or sales work here also has written or actively works on code. Mostly look…
Comment linking /principles
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted Why Systems Software and Why Rust? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMonadical.com | Senior Full-Stack Engineer / Product Manager / Partner | Full-Time | Montreal / Medellin | REMOTE We're a full-stack software consultancy that's growing quickly. We have a wide variety of interesting projects, from building unified data formats for neuroscience labs to share datasets, to custom medical software for doctors, to real estate platforms and more. We're growing quickly and we have more wor…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)”Submitted Kraken the Code: How to Build a Talking Avatar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMonadical.com | Senior Full-Stack Engineer / Rust Developers/ DevOps Engineer | Full-Time | Montreal / Colombia| REMOTE We're a full-stack consultancy, committed to building software that outlasts us. We have a wide variety of interesting projects including building unified data formats for neuroscience labs to share data sets, developing custom medical software for doctors, and creating platforms for real estate ag…
Comment linking /team.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted Integrating AI Models into Zulip Chatbots Using FastAPI: Part 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMonadical ( https://monadical.com ) | Senior Full-Stack Engineer / Senior Unity Developer | Full-Time | Montreal / Mexico/ Argentina | REMOTE We're a full-stack consultancy, committed to building software that outlasts us. We have a wide variety of interesting projects including building unified data formats for neuroscience labs to share data sets, developing custom medical software for doctors, creating platforms…
Comment linking /team.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer – HedgeDoc as a story · 2 points
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