Jamie Lawrence
jamie.ideasasylum.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Jamie Lawrence, a software engineer and CTO, writes on running infrastructure, incident response, management, and hobbies.
What HN saysNo commenters gave opinions on it; HN links it for posts on leaving Heroku, dropping review apps, and his sabbatical hobbies.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Moving Off Heroku, Slowly3 people · 89 points · first shared 2024 · 52 comments on HN
- 2KISSmetrics' bizarre pricing decision2 people · 61 points · first shared 2010 · 47 comments on HN
- 3We Stopped Using Review Apps2 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 4The evolution of incident response at Podia2 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 5Hobbies (2023)2 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 6You are the scariest monster in the woods1 people · 222 points · first shared 2025 · 388 comments on HN
- 7The manager's unbearable lack of endorphins1 people · 91 points · first shared 2024 · 49 comments on HN
- 8We're all CTO now1 people · 84 points · first shared 2025 · 105 comments on HN
- 9Things I learnt during, and about, my PhD1 people · 63 points · first shared 2008 · 14 comments on HN
- 10Implementing Impersonation1 people · 50 points · first shared 2018 · 9 comments on HN
- 11Nothing changes unless you change it1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12You need to adopt AI (as a software engineer)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 13What you don't know if you don't have a CompSci degree1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 14The Point1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 15We're All in the Arena1 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
hopeless · 2023-07-04
https://jamie.ideasasylum.com
Been blogging since ~2000 but archived most the old stuff. Just rebuilt it on Bridgetown, Tailwind, and Cloudflare Pages because I had some free time.
Best recent blog post is about my re-discovery of hobbies during sabbatical: https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2023/07/02/hobbies
AmberShah · 2010-07-13
1) How is this different than http://www.postmarkapp.com or http://www.sendgrid.com?
2) What will the pricing be? No way am I signing up for a free beta and then have to deal with a crazy high price where I will have to re-do part of my app to switch away. This is still on HN: http://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2010/07/kissmetrics-bizarre-pricing