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Slava Kim
Personal blog · devblog.meprogramming
Slava Kim writes Yet Another Dev Blog, a personal blog at devblog.me about programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for notes on the SICP lectures and a write-up of a Heavybit-style talk player built in Meteor. Comments cite it without judging the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Posts and writings by Slava Kim
What Hacker News says?
I watched several MOOCs and OCW courses but this one was the first and the best I've ever came across. Most of the MOOC videos are still boring and I need to speed them up to 1.25x but SICP was so great, I could spend hours talking to my peers about every episode! My notes of it are here: http://devblog.me/sicp.html
Comment linking /sicp.html
on “SICP taught by Abelson and Sussman [video]”Submitted Top 5 MongoDB gotchas as a story · 13 points
HN discussionFor one, compare https://jepsen.io/analyses/postgresql-12.3 and https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6 - similar vintages, entirely different levels of reliability. From a migration perspective, the presence of JSONB fields in Postgres, and much of the modern tooling around them, mean that you can even put a highly nested document structure directly into Postgres and have a clear migration path without rewriting c…
Comment linking /wtf-mongo
on “Ask HN: In which areas have you compared 3+ tools and formed strong preferences?”Submitted Top 5 syntactic weirdnesses to be aware of in MongoDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHey Show HN, I built this over 1 weekend and I am not a good front-end developer so it was a really interesting experience for me. What I like about this player is how the transcript is synchronized with slides and playback. The original version from Heavybit is here: http://www.heavybit.com/library/video/2013-10-15-marten-mick... The code for my clone: https://github.com/Slava/talk-player Blog-post: http://devblog.…
Comment linking /talk-player
on “Show HN: Open source clone of Heavybit Library player in Meteor”