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www.bitlog.com
Personal blog · bitlog.com · on HN as jakevoytkoprogrammingcareer
www.bitlog.com is a personal blog at bitlog.com about programming and career. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to bitlog posts on whether DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular search, and on why software teams are so bad at building software. The comments only cite the posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-06
- Why are we so bad at software engineering?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-12
What Hacker News says?
Actually the article in this post provides exactly that. https://www.bitlog.com/2020/03/06/duckduckgo-is-good-enough-... Look for the bit about Harry Potter.
Comment linking /2020/03/06/duckduckgo-is-good-enough-for-regular-use/
on “DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use”Submitted DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use as a story · 1158 points
HN discussionThis is really late in the game, but I wrote a blog post that summarizes my approach. People have told me that they have found it helpful. https://www.bitlog.com/2017/10/12/what-does-a-tech-lead-do/ The TL;DR is that you are now responsible for anything that is not moving your team forward. If nobody knows what "forward" means, it's your responsibility to define it. If a code review is languishing, that's your respo…
Comment linking /2017/10/12/what-does-a-tech-lead-do/
on “Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?”Submitted Why are we so bad at software engineering? as a story · 379 points
HN discussionReminds me of https://www.bitlog.com/2020/02/12/why-are-we-so-bad-at-softw...
Comment linking /2020/02/12/why-are-we-so-bad-at-software-engineering/
on “Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months”Submitted Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible as a story · 346 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog post about this forever ago[0] summarizing what I've seen work. The most important thing to realize is how success will be measured. It will no longer be your individual contributions. Instead, you will be measured by how successful your team is. So you need to use your time to make your team more effective. So the most important thing you can do is prevent anyone from becoming blocked. The next-most…
Comment linking /2017/10/12/what-does-a-tech-lead-do/
on “Ask HN: What makes a good technical leader – any recommended books?”Submitted I used HEY for a week, but I’m going back to Gmail as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThis isn't a "fatal flaw." It's a tradeoff. You add a little bit of extra code (which is a liability), and in exchange, you get a test double that you can reuse in many places (which is a benefit). This is in opposition to mocks, where you get an automated framework that can substitute calls anywhere in the system (a benefit), but you're completely replicating the behavior in every single test (a liability). I argue…
Comment linking /2019/12/10/simple-software-engineering-mocks-are-a-last-resort/
on “Prefer Fakes over Mocks”Submitted Why are we getting worse at software engineering? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I built my own Google Docs for my blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We haven't adapted teams to the magic wand yet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude Code is a great Dad side project environment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finish Something Every Day as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does a tech lead do? as a story · 1 points
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