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Brian Jones
Personal blog · tinaja.computerprogrammingwriting
Brian Jones writes La Tinaja, a personal blog at tinaja.computer about programming and writing. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Expedience in Sourdough (2017)”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is in a thread on the 1991 essay 'The Rise of Worse Is Better' and discusses the idea of 'expedience'. It does not link to or mention this blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My name is Brian Jones. These are my notes on topics including books, publishing, tech, and history.
Most-linked posts?
- Expedience in Sourdough (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-07
What Hacker News says?
There was an article posted on here[1] a while back that I only just found again, introducing the term "expedience." The idea was that we think we live in a world where people have to have "the best" sweater, be on "the best" social network, drive "the best" car, etc. But when you look at what really WINS, it's not the best, it's the most "expedient" - i.e. sufficiently good, with built-in social proof, inoculated o…
Comment linking /2017/10/13/expedience.html
on “The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)”Submitted Connecting to Google Sheets with Python as a story · 162 points
HN discussionSubmitted Derek Yu’s “Spelunky” as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expedience in “Sourdough” (2017) as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expedience in Sourdough (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion