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Benji Smith's personal blog at benjismith.net covers programming and business. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Why I hate frameworks (2005)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2008–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2008

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Why HN links it

HN commenters link Benji Smith's blog and his 2005 essay "Why I Hate Frameworks", which is cited in discussions of SOAP, frameworks and a Joel on Software thread.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why I hate frameworks (2005)
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-07-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. bockris · 2011-01-07
    Reminds me of the "Why I hate frameworks" essay by Benji Smith. http://benjismith.net/index.php/2005/09/30/hate-frameworks/

    Comment linking /index.php/2005/09/30/hate-frameworks/

    on “SOAP: The 'S' stands for simple (not really)”
  2. lkozma · 2010-07-20

    Submitted Why I hate frameworks (2005) as a story · 111 points

    HN discussion
  3. inglor · 2018-02-12
    This one is just on Joel's site though - it was written by http://www.benjismith.net/

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    on “Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow (2016)”
  4. iamelgringo · 2008-01-07

    Submitted Why I Hate Frameworks as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  5. bockris · 2009-01-13Recommends
    > I also think Joel misses something Just FYI. This was post on the "Joel on Sofware" discussion group but the author is Benji Smith. http://benjismith.net/ I like his blog. He used to post a lot more but he's been busy with a new project. (and a HD crash as of this morning.)

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    on “Why I Hate Frameworks”
  6. pchristensen · 2008-06-03

    Submitted Business Intelligence (Analytics) for Desktop Software as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. tamarindo · 2010-07-20
    I wouldn't worry about him. According to his resume, he is still working at Charles River: http://benjismith.net/resume.php

    Comment linking /resume.php

    on “Why I hate frameworks (2005)”
  8. bockris · 2012-05-31
    see also: http://benjismith.net/index.php/2005/09/30/hate-frameworks/

    Comment linking /index.php/2005/09/30/hate-frameworks/

    on “The Breakfast Food Cooker”

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