Hacker News: henrik_w

Castles in the Air – It's Still Just as Rewarding

henrik_w — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:32:01 +0000

Article URL: https://media.pragprog.com/newsletters/2026-03-25.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598349

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by henrik_w in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

henrik_w — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:07:46 +0000

Or put && between them - I had "compile;run" and when compile failed, it still ran (but the old build). Took me a while to figure out. && ensures the first command succeeds. Anyway, so worth it to combine commands into one line for easy re-run.

Intentional Overuse Is an AI Coding Learning Strategy

henrik_w — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:48:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jedi.be/blog/2026/intentional-overuse-is-an-ai-coding-learning-strategy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114002

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by henrik_w in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

henrik_w — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:46:04 +0000

https://henrikwarne.com/ - my blog about programming (started it in 2011). Happy to have had several posts hit the HN front page.

Book Review: The Math Academy Way

henrik_w — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:16:58 +0000

Article URL: https://ijfen.substack.com/p/book-review-the-math-academy-way

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444838

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by henrik_w in "“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”"

henrik_w — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:57:40 +0000

The book by Ben Macintyre, "Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory", is very good.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7632329-operation-mincem...

Lessons from 9 More Years of Tricky Bugs

henrik_w — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:02:19 +0000

Article URL: https://henrikwarne.com/2025/06/15/lessons-from-9-more-years-of-tricky-bugs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44289583

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by henrik_w in "Jfokus Stockholm 2025"

henrik_w — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:59:22 +0000

Thanks, my mistake. Don't know how to delete, so will submit again instead.

Jfokus Stockholm 2025

henrik_w — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:44:13 +0000

Article URL: https://henrikwarne.com/2025/02/08/programming-conference-jfokus-stockholm-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44289449

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Ladder of Bug Discovery Joy

henrik_w — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:23:50 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.meadsteve.dev/programming/2025/03/16/ladder-of-bug-discovery-joy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386862

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

More Good Programming Quotes, Part 6

henrik_w — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 06:31:27 +0000

Article URL: https://henrikwarne.com/2025/03/02/more-good-programming-quotes-part-6/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43238917

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Programming Conference – Jfokus Stockholm 2025

henrik_w — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 07:22:42 +0000

Article URL: https://henrikwarne.com/2025/02/08/programming-conference-jfokus-stockholm-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989096

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

My simple knowledge management and time tracking system

henrik_w — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:31:04 +0000

Article URL: https://henrikwarne.com/2024/11/09/my-simple-knowledge-management-and-time-tracking-system/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42095263

Points: 104

# Comments: 29

New comment by henrik_w in "Ask HN: What are your favourite technical newsletters?"

henrik_w — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:21:05 +0000

TLDR - one email per weekday.

New comment by henrik_w in "The art of programming and why I won't use LLM"

henrik_w — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 06:57:14 +0000

I love the craft of coding, and I still use ChatGPT every day to good effect. It writes the boilerplate code for me, and leaves the fun part to me. Don't underestimate the power of getting to a good, working solution faster.

I wrote a blog post about it yesterday:

https://henrikwarne.com/2024/08/25/programming-with-chatgpt/

Programming with ChatGPT

henrik_w — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 06:53:32 +0000

Article URL: https://henrikwarne.com/2024/08/25/programming-with-chatgpt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354648

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by henrik_w in "I run a software book club"

henrik_w — Fri, 31 May 2024 09:24:09 +0000

Great to hear!!

New comment by henrik_w in "I run a software book club"

henrik_w — Thu, 30 May 2024 18:36:14 +0000

I ran a book club for 7 years when I worked at TriOptima. We were maybe 40 developers in total at the company, and around 10 would join when we picked a new book. Towards the end of one book, some people would always drop off, but there were still enough people to make it useful.

One of the key (unexpexted) benefits of it was how it facilitated discussions about SW development practices between the different teams at the company. The content was usually good for giving us new ideas to try etc, but the usefullness of the discussions surprised me.

I've written more about it here:

https://henrikwarne.com/2016/11/08/developer-book-club/

The danger of the mediocre success when testing startup hypotheses (2023)

henrik_w — Mon, 13 May 2024 11:38:15 +0000

Article URL: https://pivotal.substack.com/p/the-worst-outcome-is-a-mediocre-success

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40342075

Points: 154

# Comments: 85

New comment by henrik_w in "Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus"

henrik_w — Thu, 02 May 2024 12:31:40 +0000

That was the part of the book I found most interesting (although the whole book is a good and interesting read)