Top all-time · #23241
Muhammad Usman
Personal blog · usman.itcareerprogramming
Muhammad Usman's personal blog at usman.it covers career and programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-31, 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 post to support a point about Laravel's facades, which the post argues are not truly static and so are hard to test or mock. The linked post is about Laravel 4's static usage.
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.
Self-taught developer in Reading, UK. Quit a $100k+ remote job to build and ship software solo at Nofuss - making $130k+ with Shopify apps.
What Hacker News says?
Laravel encourages DI via Service Containers: https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/container And, Laravel static methods (as you see in the docs as Facades) are not truly static (and testable/mockable). https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/facades#facades-vs-dependency-i... http://usman.it/laravel-4-uses-static-not-true/
Comment linking /laravel-4-uses-static-not-true/
on “The Future of HHVM”Submitted Programing Best Practices Violation Fear as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Many Good Developers Don’t Get a Good Job as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Image Manipulation in Golang – Convert Image to Grayscale as a story · 2 points
HN discussion