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Ulas Turkmen
Personal blog · okigiveup.netprogrammingproductivity
Ulas Turkmen writes OK I GIVE UP, a personal blog at okigiveup.net about programming and productivity. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, 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 this blog for its argument that the ThinkPad X220 is the best laptop ever made. Commenters cite or quote it in ThinkPad discussions without judging the writing.
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.
Personal web page of Ulas Turkmen, with blog posts on various topics, programming tutorials and book reviews.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-08
- PostgreSQL Vacuuming: An Introduction for Busy Devs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-04
What Hacker News says?
Indeed. I know of two "best laptops ever made": Drew DeVault says it's the X200: https://drewdevault.com/blog/Fucking-laptops/ « The best laptop ever made is the ThinkPad X200, and I have two of them. » He has a very strong case. I own one. It is certainly one of the best ever. On the other hand, Brad Taunt says it is the X220: https://btxx.org/posts/x220/ « The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you…
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on “Google ending ChromeOS support two years early”Submitted Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum as a story · 483 points
HN discussionI have no idea, as I'm a bit lost when it comes to Kubernetes tooling. When I wrote a Kubernetes tutorial ( https://okigiveup.net/tutorials/a-tutorial-introduction-to-k... ) nearly four years ago, you had kubectl and YAML files, and that was it. These days there is a whole hierarchy of tools, which probably cover the same ground with miniboss and much more. So yes, it could be adapted, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn'…
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on “Show HN: Miniboss, versatile local container management with Python”Submitted A Tutorial Introduction to Kubernetes as a story · 304 points
HN discussion> As dead tuples continue to accumulate in the index, Postgres enters a hot loop as it searches the B-tree, comes up with an invisible tuple, and repeats the process again and again, surfacing empty-handed every time. By the end of the experiment illustrated in the charts above, every worker trying to lock a job would cycle through this loop 100,000 times. 1. I am curious if the author tried setting the autovacuum m…
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on “Postgres Job Queues and Failure by MVCC”Submitted Arguments against JSON-driven development as a story · 257 points
HN discussionNo, compared to conventional project management, i.e. having a project manager who understands the technical aspects but also meets with the stakeholders to balance feature development with solving technical debt, it is much slower and more frustrating to work in. Its really not that hard to manager a team of developers - keep track of whos working on what and make decisions with the team if something is blocking a…
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on “Ask HN: Does Scrum work?”Submitted The How and Why of Go, Part 1: Tooling as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBest laptop ever made. « Why Thinkpad X220 is the best laptop ever made Published on 10.05.2020 I’m rather certain that you will come to the same conclusion, esteemed reader, as I did, namely that the Thinkpad X220 is the best laptop ever made, in consideration of the following points. » https://okigiveup.net/blog/why-thinkpad-x220-is-the-best-lap... I have 2 of them, and I love them dearly.
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on “The X220 ThinkPad Is the Best Laptop in the World”Submitted What PostgreSQL Tells You About Its Performance as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Structured Debugging as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discovering AWS with the CLI Part 2: ECS and Fargate as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL Vacuuming: An Introduction for Busy Devs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum (2016) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Thinkpad X220 is the best laptop ever made as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Introduction to Cython, the Secret Python Extension with Superpowers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discovering AWS with the CLI Part 1: Networking and Virtual Machines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted KubeCon Impressions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don't have to learn to code to think like a coder as a story · 1 points
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