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Tilo Mitra

Personal blog · tilomitra.comcareerprogramming

Tilo Mitra's personal blog at tilomitra.com covers career and programming. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “The Crazy World of Code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.

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16mentions?
6HN people?
2012–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers cite this post, "The Crazy World of Code", as a version of a viral rant about web development's tangle of languages and libraries, which one commenter says is hard for new and experienced programmers alike.

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.

Engineering leadership, development, and building high-performing teams. Writing about technical challenges and team management.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Crazy World of Code
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-07-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. eranation · 2013-02-12
    Author of the original rant here, funny it became viral and translated to Chinese (and back to English) :) The rant was made as a comment here: http://www.zemanta.com/blog/i-bet-you-over-engineered-your-s... Picked up by a Tilo Mitra: http://tilomitra.com/the-crazy-world-of-code/ And as discussed here in HN before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4226990 The point of it was actually: it's impossible to always ke…

    Comment linking /the-crazy-world-of-code/

    on “Web Development: A Crazy World”
  2. hobonumber1 · 2012-07-11

    Submitted The Crazy World of Code as a story · 150 points

    HN discussion
  3. yjh0502 · 2013-02-12
    Maybe this post is the original one: http://tilomitra.com/the-crazy-world-of-code/

    Comment linking /the-crazy-world-of-code/

    on “Web Development: A Crazy World”
  4. hobonumber1 · 2012-09-07

    Submitted Why I don't wear the same shirt everyday as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  5. SandB0x · 2014-10-11
    The web has its own equivalent of the gtk bindings issue. For a new programmer, gluing together a load of different languages and libraries is a nightmare. For experienced programmers too. http://tilomitra.com/the-crazy-world-of-code/

    Comment linking /the-crazy-world-of-code/

    on “The Microsoft Empire Reboots”
  6. hobonumber1 · 2019-09-30

    Submitted Transitioning from a Software Engineer to a Manager as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. speckx · 2026-06-23

    Submitted AI Raises the Floor, but It Lowers the Ceiling as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. hobonumber1 · 2014-09-15

    Submitted How I started tracking my body (and how you can too) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. hobonumber1 · 2014-09-02

    Submitted Cheers to YUI – Thoughts of a Former YUI Core Team Member as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. hobonumber1 · 2012-10-20

    Submitted Bitbucket vs Github as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. karanbhangui · 2012-04-26

    Submitted Presenting Peekaboo - FB information on people in real life as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. hobonumber1 · 2015-03-30

    Submitted Why you should use npm shrinkwrap as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. hobonumber1 · 2013-05-09

    Submitted Web vs Native as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. hobonumber1 · 2013-05-08

    Submitted Bitbucket vs Github as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. hobonumber1 · 2012-10-20

    Submitted Optimizing site for IE10 touch-mode? Know about -ms-touch-action as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. hobonumber1 · 2012-02-08

    Submitted How we used free + open source tools to build a face recognition app as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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