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Yo! Briefcase: index

Personal blog · yobriefca.se/blog · on HN as yobriefcaseprogrammingcareer

Yo! Briefcase: index is a personal blog at yobriefca.se about programming and career. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Micro Service Architecture”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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19mentions?
14HN people?
2011–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for posts on microservices, including wrapping and gradually replacing legacy applications, and for a comparison of rewriting a game in Elm.

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.

The author on HN?

yobriefcase · 32 karma · member since 2011

http://yobriefca.se

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Micro Service Architecture
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-06-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. This blog about rewriting a game originally written in ClojureScript in Elm has some comparisons/impressions: https://yobriefca.se/blog/2015/07/29/zombie-dice-score-card-...

    Comment linking /blog/2015/07/29/zombie-dice-score-card-in-elm/

    on “Introducing Elm to a JavaScript Web App”
  2. Submitted The Weird and Wonderful Characters of Clojure as a story · 106 points

    HN discussion
  3. I do like micro services. As a general architecture for new systems, but also as wrappers around existing legacy applications. It makes integration and evolution of old applications a lot smoother with newer technology stacks. Once fully "micro serviced" http://yobriefca.se/blog/2013/04/29/micro-service-architectu... you can replace/evolve one service at the time, instead of more costly and risky whole applications…

    Comment linking /blog/2013/04/29/micro-service-architecture/

    on “Microservices”
  4. Submitted Estimates as Deadlines and the End of Everything as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. I took some time to think about this because it started off as a feeling and not a list of reasons. For me it's mostly centered around control structures - if, for, switch, case (scala's pattern matching). Clojure's control structures are syntactically composed of ()'s and []'s. Scala's aren't. They are a coded into the language's grammar[1][2]. Clojure's ns forms parallel Scala's package and import statements, but…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/05/19/the-weird-and-wonderful-characters-of-clojure/

    on “A few tips for writing macros in Clojure”
  6. Submitted Why Scala? Because C# as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. moondowner · 2014-04-03Recommends
    This article on microservices is also nice: http://yobriefca.se/blog/2013/04/28/micro-service-architectu...

    Comment linking /blog/2013/04/28/micro-service-architecture/

    on “OF MONKEYS AND MICROSERVICES”
  8. Submitted Micro Service Architecture as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Some links that might interest people http://yobriefca.se/blog/2013/04/29/micro-service-architectu... http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

    Comment linking /blog/2013/04/29/micro-service-architecture/

    on “Ask HN: Anyone out there using Developer Anarchy / Micro-services?”
  10. Submitted Review of Wake: a language aimed at testability, expressiveness, and typesafety as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Publish and Subscribe with core.async's pub and sub as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Show HN: Strapping Young Lad - Project Template Bootstrapper as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Thinking About Hackathons as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Micro Service Architecture as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted MSA: Micro Service Architecture as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Caveat Abstractor as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted On Craftmanship and Understanding, I Guess as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Life (in IT) Lesson #5372: Learning To Say No, Keep Having Fun as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Announcing Baler as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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