Bossy Lobster

Personal blog · blog.bossylobster.com · on HN as dhermes programming systems

Bossy Lobster is a personal blog at blog.bossylobster.com about programming and systems. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Lesson V8 Can Teach Python and Other Dynamic Languages”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-03, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?

5HN people?

2011–2021first – last linked?

Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2020

The author on HN?

dhermes · 16 karma · member since 2020

https://blog.bossylobster.com/about-me

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Most-linked posts?

The Lesson V8 Can Teach Python and Other Dynamic Languages
2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-17

What Hacker News says?

tbassetto · 2011-08-17
Submitted The Lesson V8 Can Teach Python and Other Dynamic Languages as a story · 13 points
HN discussion
dhermes · 2021-05-11
Submitted A story of an outage and the footgun that caused it as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
bcl · 2012-09-07
Submitted The Lesson V8 Can Teach Python and Other Dynamic Languages as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
underanalyzer · 2020-12-04
Submitted Broken Pipe in a Haystack as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
tosh · 2020-07-25
Submitted Attack of Ruby Stack Traces (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion

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