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Volodymyr Gubarkov

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Volodymyr Gubarkov's personal blog at maximullaris.com covers programming and systems. Since 2022, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Awk Technical Notes (2023)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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27mentions?
10HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 14 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link these posts on make-style build tools (makesure compared with make and just), implementing programs in awk, and unusual Python idioms. One commenter called the Awk technical notes a great read.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

My technical blog

Most-linked posts?

  1. Awk Technical Notes (2023)
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-03-28
  2. Makesure vs. Just command runners on examples
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-12-09
  3. Bytebeating with GAWK
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-21
  4. Create Bilingual Books Yourself
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-09
  5. Fascination of Awk
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. You could also like my tool: https://makesure.dev/ https://maximullaris.com/makesure-vs-make.html https://maximullaris.com/makesure-vs-just.html

    Comment linking /makesure-vs-just.html

    on “I Like Makefiles”
  2. Submitted Awk Technical Notes (2023) as a story · 160 points

    HN discussion
  3. You can also implement includes in couple (tens) of lines of AWK: https://maximullaris.com/revamp_define.html#mglwnafh

    Comment linking /revamp_define.html

    on “Aho – a Git implementation in Awk”
  4. Submitted Experimenting with GC-less (heap-less) Java as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  5. cholantesh · 2025-11-14Recommends
    This was a great read, and the previous post in the series. I see a lot of very convincing arguments here ( https://maximullaris.com/awk.html#why ) but for me one of the biggest points in favour of python (and I say this is someone who, for learning, will always just reach for C++ because of my muscle memory) is its eminent readability. If I'm writing a script, quite a lot of the time, it's meant not just for myself…

    Comment linking /awk.html

    on “Awk Technical Notes (2023)”
  6. Submitted Awk Technical Notes as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. makesure, a similar tool ( https://maximullaris.com/makesure-vs-just.html ) I'm developing, doesn't require installation in the traditional sense: https://github.com/xonixx/makesure#installation . Also, I was considering adding the same feature (generating the equivalent shell script) to my tool, but after doing some analysis decided not to pursue this idea for the following reasons: https://github.com/xonixx/makesu…

    Comment linking /makesure-vs-just.html

    on “Show HN: Just.sh – compiler that turns Justfiles into portable shell scripts”
  8. Submitted Awk Technical Notes (2023) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. You can also program in Python just in list comprehensions: https://maximullaris.com/abusing_python.html

    Comment linking /abusing_python.html

    on “Lambdasort: Quicksort written in Python only using lambdas”
  10. Submitted Fascination of Awk as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Don't use complex expressions in if conditions as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Mdbooker – turn your README.md into a documentation site as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Fascination with AWK as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Code Coverage for GoAWK as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Code Coverage for GoAWK (2022) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted I Program in Awk as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Makesure vs. Just command runners on examples as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Makesure vs. Just command runners on examples as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Makesure v0.9.21 – What's New? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Fhtagn – a tiny CLI programs tester written in Awk as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Bytebeating with Gawk as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Bytebeating with GAWK as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Awk Technical Notes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Adding Parameterized Goals to Makesure as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Create Bilingual Books Yourself as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Create Bilingual Books Yourself as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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