# grugbrain.dev

5 Hacker News commenters recommended grugbrain.dev and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for its funny, blunt essays against software complexity, written in grug-speak.

## Why people recommend it

- Funny, entertaining writing (1 comments): "Didn't find it particularly useful, but is funny!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639574))
- Authentic human brutalism (1 comments): "Authentic human brutalism" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412170))
- Warns against software complexity (1 comments): "complexity very, very bad" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084365))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [The Grug Brained Developer by Carson Gross](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grug-brained-developer.md): 13 recommend
- [Choose Boring Technology by Dan McKinley](https://hackerapproved.com/p/choose-boring-technology.md): 11 recommend
- [The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bitter-lesson.md): 10 recommend
- [Things You Should Never Do by Joel Spolsky](https://hackerapproved.com/p/things-you-should-never-do.md): 10 recommend
- [The Illustrated Transformer by Jay Alammar](https://hackerapproved.com/p/illustrated-transformer.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "grugbrain.dev", https://hackerapproved.com/p/grugbrain-dev/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).