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ozorninon I wrote a book about how V8 JavaScript Engine works behind the scenes. its free

Hey! I'm not a moderator, but you don't have to delete the post after 3 days.

It's encouraged to share your relevant work, even if it's a paid product.

Is there a way to buy/download the book without an Amazon account?

ozorninon Show HN: I wrote a book – Debugging TypeScript Applications (in beta)

I totally agree.

At first, I started writing a book about very practical, hands-on debugging practices, but quickly realized that the "mix of tools and best practices" you're talking about is a much more valuable skill, as well as bug prioritization, and even bug reporting.

So, as a result, catching errors early, type guarding, logging to debug asynchronous operations, and error tracking are all major parts of the book.

ozorninon Show HN: I wrote a book – Debugging TypeScript Applications (in beta)

Exactly. I wrote in (flavored) Markdown with occasional XML inserts.

ozorninon Show HN: I wrote a book – Debugging TypeScript Applications (in beta)

That's great feedback, thank you!

We'll go through screenshots, check their readability and crop or re-create them before going to print.

Can you point to particular screenshots that feel the worst?

ozorninon Show HN: I wrote a book – Debugging TypeScript Applications (in beta)

Thank you!

Not really. I am almost sure that eventually I'll do it, but what I have at this point is more like "dreams" or "ideas", very far from being materialized.

Also, I know that I want to write about something less practical and more fun. Maybe, making music. Writing about fun parts is so much easier

ozorninon Show HN: I wrote a book – Debugging TypeScript Applications (in beta)

I did, thank you! It was hard and long, though. Much harder and longer than I expected it to be. The book ended up being very different from what I initially conceived (for the better, I hope.) I have too much to say to fit it all in one comment, to be honest :)

ozorninon Show HN: I wrote a book – Debugging TypeScript Applications (in beta)

Mostly yes. It touches upon debugging unit tests and server-side code, as well as methodologies applicable to debugging in general, but the practical parts are almost exclusively client-side.

ozorninon Over-regulation is doubling the cost

That's a wild oversimplification

ozorninon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)

Framer is the design tool for websites

Senior+ Product Engineer - https://www.framer.com/careers/senior-product-engineer Staff+ Back-end Engineer - https://www.framer.com/careers/principal-backend-engineer Senior+ Site Reliability Engineer - https://www.framer.com/careers/senior-site-reliability-engin...

You can email me if you find it interesting: andrey.ozornin@framer.com

ozorninon Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using?

https://codeberg.org

ozorninon Alephic Writing Style Guide

Another writing style guide, barely distinguishable from many others, but written in tone like it's radically different. Maybe this is precisely the point, though.

ozorninon ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

Profitability is just a matter of time. Uber was not profitable for years, too. Just wait until the economy of scale kicks in. Alchemy is here to stay. Element conversion is only getting started!

ozorninon So Much Blood

I have the same story in the same country with presumably the same organization (Sanquin). I used to give blood, but not anymore because I don't find what they're doing ethical.

ozorninon Careless People

I haven't. What stories?

ozorninon Once banned, Poland's stately 18th century dance garners UNESCO honors (2024)

Thank you for your corrections

ozorninon Once banned, Poland's stately 18th century dance garners UNESCO honors (2024)

Terrible fact-checking and I doubt the good faith by Associate Press. The authors (Monika Ścisłowska and Rafał Niedzielski) claim that Polonaise was banned in USSR, which is false. Neither it was ever banned in Russian Empire.

The culture.pl article mentions that > dancing the polonaise was temporarily banned in the Congress Kingdom

Which could be the case, I don't know, but I couldn't google other sources in 10 minutes either.

ozorninon What if we made advertising illegal?

> how to police the boundaries

Any existing policy inevitably has a gray area, no matter how elaborate it is. That's okay if the author didn't cover corner cases in a short essay.

> You don't just magically know what to buy.

Knowing what you need is not magic. I don't remember much advertising lately that would tell me how a good can satisfy my existing needs. Mostly, they are trying to make me feel I need something I didn't need before

ozorninon Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites

This is just what I wanted, thank you for that!

ozorninon Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)

It becomes important if you play with other people though

ozorninon Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns

Yes, I experience the same on desktop Safari.

ozorninon Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024)

"I am not reinventing the wheel, I am disrupting the wheel industry" — TramSDK creator https://github.com/racenis/tram-sdk

ozorninon FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

Or, alternatively, you know, pay the author for the work they've done

ozorninon Orion Browser by Kagi: Lightweight, WebKit Based

...and Linux, and Android

ozorninon Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

> the scetchy guy running it

You mean Brandon Eich, the author of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla? Why?

The other two points I 100% agree with.

ozorninon Start a computer club in the place that you live (2023)

For a list of reasons you probably shouldn't, but you totally can

ozorninon Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson

> how could AI not be the deciding geopolitical factor of the future?

Easily. Natural resources, human talent, land and supply chains all are and will be more important factors than AI

> You expect progress to stop

> and AI not to achieve and surpass human intelligence

yes

ozorninon jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

I considered it, but it would inevitably involve talking to people, and it is a little too far for me

ozorninon jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

I have colleagues who are big fans of it. I gave it a try, but I really don't get what is the problem it is trying to solve. Like, what is it that I will be able to do that I couldn't do with git, and why bother learning it at all