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the website of jyn
Personal blog · jyn.devprogrammingsystemsculture
the website of jyn is a personal blog at jyn.dev about programming, systems and culture. Since 2022, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link jyn.dev for essays on developer tools and terminals, such as the terminal of the future and technical debt. Only one comment judges a post directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
i write about code, and things that bring me joy, and sometimes other things too
Most-linked posts?
- Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-01-22
- Tokens too cheap to meter3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-22
- I'm just having fun2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-16
- We have a year to fix security everywhere2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-05
- The Rust project has a burnout problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-01
- Constrained languages are easier to optimize2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-13
- The terminal of the future2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-11
What Hacker News says?
The author indeed seems to start using the same style in 2023: https://jyn.dev/tags/ideas/
Comment linking /tags/ideas/
on “I'm just having fun”Submitted How I use my terminal as a story · 547 points
HN discussionoh hey Will! long time no see lol, it's been ages. small world. i think this is on a good track! i like that it's designed to be extensible while still keeping some amount of structure, and that the DSL makes things very compact. how are those filters implemented? are you spawning a shell to run jq or are you interpreting in-process or something like that? in general i'd love to see a bunch more DSLs, i think using…
Comment linking /constrained-languages-are-easier-to-optimize/
on “You Are in a Box”Submitted Tokens too cheap to meter as a story · 354 points
HN discussionI think this is the natural end state of code bases over time and it’s very hard to fix without dedicating lots of time (and getting buying from management to dedicate that time) https://jyn.dev/technical-debt-is-different-from-technical-r...
Comment linking /technical-debt-is-different-from-technical-risk/
on “The Windows 10 emoji picker has been broken for a month”Submitted I'm just having fun as a story · 333 points
HN discussionA good read on the subject https://jyn.dev/the-terminal-of-the-future
Comment linking /the-terminal-of-the-future
on “Make Tmux Pretty and Usable”Submitted The terminal of the future as a story · 318 points
HN discussionSubmitted We have a year to fix security everywhere as a story · 312 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Is Not Small as a story · 263 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rust project has a burnout problem as a story · 235 points
HN discussionSubmitted An engineer's perspective on hiring as a story · 191 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Core of Rust as a story · 172 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Are in a Box as a story · 147 points
HN discussionSubmitted Operators, Not Users and Programmers as a story · 87 points
HN discussionSubmitted Constrained languages are easier to optimize as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build System Tradeoffs as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is a build system, anyway? as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted "high level" languages are easier to optimize as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Just Having Fun as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to maintain an Open Source project (2023) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted A rising tide raises all rents as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tokens Too Cheap to Meter as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tokens Too Cheap to Meter as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributed Identity as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I want a better build executor as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Brownouts Reveal System Boundaries as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Constrained languages are easier to optimize as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Theory Building Without a Mentor as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complected and Orthogonal Persistence as a story · 4 points
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