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Volkan Yazıcı

Personal blog · vlkan.com/blogprogrammingdata

Volkan Yazıcı's personal blog at vlkan.com covers programming and data. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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4HN people?
2015–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

One commenter links a 2015 post about getting protobuf working with Maven, describing the difficulty of the setup. The linked post covers Maven and protobuf build configuration.

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?

  1. I spent yesterday trying to get protobuffers working in maven, see http://vlkan.com/blog/post/2015/11/27/maven-protobuf/ for the pain. Anything counter to maven's way is a PITA. In this case, Maven dislikes platform specific binaries.

    Comment linking /blog/post/2015/11/27/maven-protobuf/

    on “NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot”
  2. Submitted Using Elasticsearch as the Primary Data Store in an ETL Pipeline as a story · 110 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Testing Fiber Implementations in JVM as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Inter-Microservice Communication Fatigue [in Java] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Using Immutable Objects for Persistence in Java as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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