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Yurii Rashkovskii
Personal blog · yrashk.medium.comprogrammingcareer
Yurii Rashkovskii's personal blog at yrashk.medium.com covers programming and career. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-21, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this Medium post on how to write commits. One commenter cites it while arguing that commit messages should hold the full context instead of linking to an issue tracker.
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.
What Hacker News says?
"Link to issue for context" Just no... Why would you decouple the change from its context? Just add all the relevant information to the commit message itself, so it's preserved. I follow my friend's approach which works really well. https://yrashk.medium.com/solving-problems-one-commit-at-a-t... Too many a times I had to do code archeology to encounter archived Jira or some old space I don't have permissions for, th…
Comment linking /solving-problems-one-commit-at-a-time-f0c56bbda7a0
on “The Perfect Commit”Submitted Repeating Yourself Thrice Doesn’t Turn You into a 3x Developer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Never Expected to Start This as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Launching wasm.rs: a collection of crates, a community as a story · 1 points
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