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Zach Daniel
Personal blog · zachdaniel.devprogrammingai
Zach Daniel's personal blog at zachdaniel.dev covers programming and ai. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Usage Rules: Leveling the Playing Field for AI-Assisted Development”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zach Daniel's Elixir posts, including one on usage rules with Tidewave and an Ash framework primer. One commenter called the primer a well-written introduction.
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.
Kindling for thought.
Most-linked posts?
- Usage Rules: Leveling the Playing Field for AI-Assisted Development3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-18
- LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or deathblow?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-01
- The Carpenter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-14
What Hacker News says?
You should see what Elixir is doing with Tidewave and usage rules. https://www.zachdaniel.dev/p/usage-rules-leveling-the-playin...
Comment linking /p/usage-rules-leveling-the-playing
on “AI is killing the web – can anything save it?”Submitted Serialization Is the Secret as a story · 278 points
HN discussionThis looks like a well-written introduction, but I’m wondering if using Ash would be a good idea. I found an article about the philosophy of Ash. [1] The basic idea is to extract a lot of details to configuration and make the code data-driven. This isn’t necessarily bad, but the result looks superficially like Gradle or Nix, with configuration being done using obscure scripting languages. I hope it doesn’t inherit t…
Comment linking /incremental-declarative-design
on “Ash: A Gentle Primer”Submitted LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or deathblow? as a story · 255 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't “let it crash”, let it heal as a story · 169 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning How to Learn Japanese as a story · 57 points
HN discussionSubmitted Usage Rules: Leveling the Playing Field for AI-Assisted Development as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silos in the Elixir Community as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Carpenter as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Carpenter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Usage Rules: Leveling the Playing Field for AI-Assisted Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
