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Mustafa Akın
Personal blog · mustafaakin.dev/postsprogrammingsystemsai
Mustafa Akın's personal blog at mustafaakin.dev covers programming, systems and ai. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Running IntelliJ Idea with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to this blog's posts on Java development on an Apple M1 Mac and on running IntelliJ IDEA with JDK 17 and ZGC. One cites a post for more setup details.
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.
Mustafa Akın — writing on infrastructure, containers, and building things.
Most-linked posts?
- Running IntelliJ Idea with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-08
- Running Windows 11 and Server 2025 with macOS Virtualization.framework2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-01
What Hacker News says?
I had a similar experiment ~10yr ago, see relevant discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064694 And updated domain: https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2016-02-08-writing-my-own-init...
Comment linking /posts/2016-02-08-writing-my-own-init-with-go/
on “Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program”Submitted Running IntelliJ Idea with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal as a story · 182 points
HN discussionOne thing I'll throw out there is that I've recently been running IntelliJ using jdk 17 with ZGC as the garbage collector, and it seems snappier. (You can use the 17.0 runtime that jetbrains releases on github, this page has more related info https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2021-12-08-running-intellij-id... )
Comment linking /posts/2021-12-08-running-intellij-idea-with-jdk17-for-better-render-performance/
on “Java Development on an Apple M1 – A One Year Review”Submitted Running IntelliJ Idea with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI have made something similar for Tekton (Kubernetes) with Jsonnet, https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2020-04-26-using-jsonnet-to-ge... but the eternal cycle of configuration vs code is always bothering me in every few years and make me question myself.
Comment linking /posts/2020-04-26-using-jsonnet-to-generate-dynamic-tekton-pipelines-in-kubernetes/
on “Write Gitlab CI Pipelines in Python Code”Submitted Running Windows 11 and Server 2025 with macOS Virtualization.framework as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNot active but here it goes: https://mustafaakin.dev/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Using Jsonnet to Generate Dynamic Tekton Pipelines in Kubernetes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe've been using Jsonnet to generate Pods for our complex DAGs at Opsgenie, wrote a similar one using Tekton: https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2020-04-26-using-jsonnet-to-ge... But if I was doing it again now, I would just use https://cuelang.org/ or https://dagger.io Jsonnet is really hard to debug.
Comment linking /posts/2020-04-26-using-jsonnet-to-generate-dynamic-tekton-pipelines-in-kubernetes/
on “Jsonnet – The Data Templating Language”Submitted Running Windows 11 and Server 2025 with macOS Virtualization.framework as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using wide columns per request telemetry at Opsgenie (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using structed data per request instead of logs, metrics and traces as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Arbitrary structured data per request helps Opsgenie to prevent incidents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating Dynamic CI Pipelines with Jsonnet and Tekton/Kubernetes as a story · 1 points
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