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Stories by hliyan on Medium
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Stories by hliyan on Medium is a personal blog at hliyan.medium.com about programming and career. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on engineering principles (such as "My Engineering Axioms") and a proposed email-based social network as an alternative to Twitter and Reddit, with no advertising or platform.
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.
What Hacker News says?
> 4. Code should be easy to delete. The distinction between "easy to delete" and "easy to replace" is subtle but important. The latter can lead you to write interfaces, proxies and factories. The former, to stateles and pure functions. Also: > 25. A good design is one in which you can change your mind without changing too much code. On a tangential note, here's my take on the subject of engineering principles: https…
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on “My Engineering Axioms”Submitted Cargo cult programming is killing the software industry as a story · 6 points
HN discussionA few years ago, I came up with this idea: "...a social network that uses email as its communications protocol and regular mail servers as the “cloud”. There is no “platform”, but an app which is basically a re-skinned mail client with certain features disabled or abstracted. There is no advertising." https://hliyan.medium.com/email-re-skinned-as-a-social-netwo...
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on “Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts”Submitted Kaizen vs. Chabuduo: A tale of two quality cultures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA solution I envisioned around 2018: Email re-skinned as a social network [1]: consider a social network that uses email as its communications protocol and regular mail servers as the “cloud”. There is no “platform”, but an app which is basically a re-skinned mail client with certain features disabled or abstracted. There is no advertising. https://hliyan.medium.com/email-re-skinned-as-a-social-netwo...
Comment linking /email-re-skinned-as-a-social-network-c33b175f3a9e
on “Ask HN: Do you believe there's really an alternative to Twitter?”