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Yusuf Aytas
Personal blog · yusufaytas.com · on HN as yusufaytasprogrammingcareer
Yusuf Aytas's personal blog at yusufaytas.com covers programming and career. Since 2012, 59 different Hacker News readers have linked it 212 times, most often “Most of What We Call Progress”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on great programmer blogs and cited for a point on execution, quoting: "If people don't know where they're going, they create their own destinations." Comments only link or cite it.
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.
I write about software engineering, leadership, and the judgment built through messy systems, team decisions, mistakes, and curiosity beyond work.
Most-linked posts?
- Most of What We Call Progress4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-10-16
- There May Be Nobody There4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-08-19
- The Mirror Is Part of the Machine4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-05-06
- Why Over-Engineering Happens3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-02
- What Good Execution Looks Like3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-18
- Good APIs Age Slowly – Yusuf Aytas3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-19
- Message Brokers Are Modern Grids(2020)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-26
- The SDLC Was Designed for Humans2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-16
- I like duplicate code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-12
- Compatibility Is a Feature2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-17
What Hacker News says?
https://www.yusufaytas.com I write about tech and other stuff since 2000s
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted AI Broke Interviews as a story · 88 points
HN discussionEDIT: Paste this hacky snippet into your browser's console to save all of the links into your clipboard: (() => { let result = [...document.querySelectorAll('td a')] .map((link) => link && !link.href.includes('ycombinator') && !link.href.includes('javascript:void') ? link.href : '' ) .filter(Boolean); result = [...new Set(result)]; result.sort(); copy(result.join('\n\n')); })(); Just to help, here's a compiled-list…
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on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted The Engineer in the Half-Space as a story · 21 points
HN discussionhttps://www.yusufaytas.com
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on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted New Manager Survival Guide as a story · 20 points
HN discussion> One point I didn't see on there is lack of clarity of the objective of the JIRA Epics and Stories and verify that those underlie actual customer painpoints. Interestingly, the author addresses this in a different post: https://yusufaytas.com/what-good-execution-looks-like/ I quote: > Clarity of Direction > If people don’t know where they’re going, they create their own destinations. It’s as simple as that. That’s…
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on “Why Over-Engineering Happens”Submitted Breaking Up with WordPress After Two Decades as a story · 19 points
HN discussionhttps://yusufaytas.com on leadership in tech and software development
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Why Kingdom of Heaven's Director's Cut Is Better as a story · 19 points
HN discussionOn this website, I post about software development, personal opinions, daily observations, and hobbies. https://www.yusufaytas.com
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on “Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site”Submitted Reflecting on Software Engineering Handbook as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Old Software Was Fast Because It Had No Choice as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life's Compounding Effect (2023) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibe Coder vs. Software Engineer as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why We Ignore Advice as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good APIs Age Slowly – Yusuf Aytas as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Software Engineering Handbook as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody Is Thinking Anymore as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Too Liked to Be Useful as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trial by Fire as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Code Is Cheap, Does Quality Still Matter? as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Ignore Advice as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Manager Interview Preparation as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Is a Masterpiece as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Balancing Act of Reliability as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Over-Engineering Happens as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Void Job as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where the Automation Has to Stop as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mirror Is Part of the Machine as a story · 11 points
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