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Personal Workflow Blog
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Personal Workflow Blog is a personal blog at blog.pwkf.org about programming and career. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Always Optimize for Junior Devs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Some thoughts I encountered during my working day in the J2EE land. Originally a blog about PWKF, an easy-to-use workflow solution. Yet, as I have less time to work on PWKF than before, it morphed into a generic blog.
Most-linked posts?
- Always Optimize for Junior Devs2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-05-31
- Serverless MCU Lambdas2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-16
What Hacker News says?
Yes, also having some "related" posts is nice. Here is my way for jekyll, which I copy-pasted-adapted. https://blog.pwkf.org/2022/08/13/adding-navigation-tags.html
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on “Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites”Submitted Fun Yet Effective Meetings as a story · 81 points
HN discussionSo that. I mean, just make sure that your blog is easily consumed by any web search engine. And in addition to the full non-paginated index, I also have a full non-paginated tags page. Like categories, but with pages showing multiple times if they have multiple tags. https://blog.pwkf.org/tags.html My pet feature I'll try to add is sidenotes. It does annoys me to jump back and forth to read them. Even as a popup (wi…
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on “Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites”Submitted Type Punning in C and C++ as a story · 36 points
HN discussionYep, I also thought about it to replace wasm to enable secure server side code execution. https://blog.pwkf.org/2023/07/16/lambda-mcu.html
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on “Fast RISC-V-based scripting back end for game engines”Submitted Let Water Flow Down as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSo that : Always Optimize for Junior Devs. https://blog.pwkf.org/2022/09/18/always-optimize-for-dummies...
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on “Companies need junior devs”Submitted Post Modern Cloud Native Development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFunnily, i thought about using CGI with emulating embedded https://blog.pwkf.org/2023/08/18/lambda-mcu-working-vm.html
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on “Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days”Submitted The Rise of Fluid Teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBest is to hire a mix, but code like only juniors come in. As a senior is always a temporary junior at first when hired. https://blog.pwkf.org/2022/09/18/always-optimize-for-dummies...
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on “Hiring ONLY seniors is the worst policy in the software industry”Submitted Immutability of a Post as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSo. That. https://blog.pwkf.org/2022/09/18/always-optimize-for-dummies... "Easy to read" means "easy for others". Current efficiency is usually borrowed on future one.
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on “Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR”Submitted Always Optimize for Junior Devs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are indeed 2 religions. Data oriented or Code oriented. Both are making very different choices as they have diverging trade offs. I wrote something along the lines. Not the same, but very similar given enough abstraction https://blog.pwkf.org/2022/08/07/two-programming-religions-c...
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on “Push ifs up and fors down”Submitted 1OPS: One Operation per Statement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI actually was also thinking that way. But then, after looking back at my old code, I struggled and crafted my 1SLOC guiding principle. I never looked back. Wasting time when writing code is actually an investment into future read speed. I even wrote some time ago about my rationale for 1SLOC https://blog.pwkf.org/2022/09/18/always-optimize-for-dummies...
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on “Show HN: My platforming game written in C 89”Submitted Serverless MCU Lambdas as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe biggest issue it will solve is not even technical, it is management https://blog.pwkf.org/2022/09/18/always-optimize-for-dummies...
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on “Clever Code Considered Harmful”