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busybee
Personal blog · beesbuzz.biz/blog · on HN as fluffycritterprogrammingwebother
busybee is a personal blog at beesbuzz.biz about programming and web. Since 2009, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Falsehoods programmers believe about email”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Busybee's beesbuzz.biz is linked mostly for its 'Falsehoods programmers believe' list about emails, names and data, plus advice for young web developers and a note on Topaz ebook DRM.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A personal website run by a multifaceted weirdo
Most-linked posts?
- Falsehoods programmers believe about email8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2022-08-30
- /blog/2934-Advice-to-young-web-developers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-18
What Hacker News says?
Hi, if possible, could the link please be updated to point to the original post at https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2934-Advice-to-young-web-developer... ? The Tumblr automatic crosspost isn't really intended to be the canonical version, and I wouldn't mind getting a server load test while we're here. Thanks!
Comment linking /blog/2934-Advice-to-young-web-developers
on “Advice to Young Web Developers”Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about email as a story · 375 points
HN discussionI had posted this to my own blog at http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2934-Advice-to-young-web-developers and it looks like it was the Tumblr auto-crossposted version that got submitted here. That's unfortunate. EDIT: I've updated the Tumblr version to make this a bit more clear.
Comment linking /blog/2934-Advice-to-young-web-developers
on “Advice to Young Web Developers”Submitted Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom or RSS feeds as a story · 176 points
HN discussionThe source post ( https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2934-Advice-to-young-web-developer... ) is a bit more readable. The list looks like, well, a list.
Comment linking /blog/2934-Advice-to-young-web-developers
on “Advice to Young Web Developers”Submitted Comma 3X: Initial Impressions as a story · 77 points
HN discussionMany years ago I wrote an article about this very issue (because I ran into it while debugging a service outage at 5 AM, which turned out to be something using select() when it shouldn't have): http://beesbuzz.biz/code/5739-The-problem-with-select-vs-pol...
Comment linking /code/5739-The-problem-with-select-vs-poll
on “File Descriptor Limits”Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about email as a story · 22 points
HN discussionWow. I ran this archive back in the 90s, when I was a student at NMSU and it was one of my ancillary duties when I worked part-time for the IT department. I wasn't a fan of OS/2 myself but I appreciated how much of a community there was around it and how excited people were to continue to use it. When I inherited it the website was put together with duct tape and paperclips (and Comic Sans), and the files were prett…
Comment linking /blog/14299-Hobbes-OS-2-Archive-An-end-of-an-era
on “Hobbes OS/2 Archive: As of April 15th, 2024 this site will no longer exist”Submitted Teageneration (or: why I don’t trust transporters) (2016) as a story · 22 points
HN discussionYes, this is something were facebook excels at, but it can also create in-group and out-group dynamics. A possible federated solution: https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/6128-Federated-access-control-with...
Comment linking /blog/6128-Federated-access-control-with-Atom-and-WebSub
on “Microformats Wiki”Submitted My Streaming Setup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionoff the top of my head, http://z80.info/ http://mta.info/ http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/ edit: I still think .info should have been .nfo and been restricted to ANSI art.
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on “John Resig dissects the neural network javascript OCR captcha code”Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about email (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor some reason your link didn't work, showed bees buzzing with 403. I think this is the link you wanted: https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe...
Comment linking /code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-email
on “Understanding conflict resolution and avoidance in PostgreSQL: a complete guide”Submitted Bitforte: A Masterclass in Scamming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAside: Please for the love of God do not force emails to be unique and also require separate accounts per person ( especially if you previously did not). This causes no end of irritation for elderly couples who only use a family email, and they WILL switch to your competitors (and I will help them do so) if yours gets in the way of them sharing like they always used to. See also https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falseho…
Comment linking /code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-email
on “Understanding conflict resolution and avoidance in PostgreSQL: a complete guide”Submitted Watermarking Hotlinked Images as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHi, artist here. I also did an interactive installation work directly inspired by I Am Sitting In A Room. :) It's only had a single (prototype) showing though. https://beesbuzz.biz/art/1512-whatwesaidwillbe
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on “Teageneration (or: why I don’t trust transporters) (2016)”Submitted Shopping Cart Comparisons as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNever specifically heard about this terminology until now, but after looking, yeah, I can see why ppl prefer 'artificial' keys to natural ones. From the animal shelter example, for people it uses email as the 'natural' key, which immediately runs up against 1,2,3 and 7 in https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe...
Comment linking /code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-email
on “Most tech content is bullshit”See also https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe...
Comment linking /code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-email
on “Email Validation Logic is Wrong (2021)”Inspired by Falsehoods programmers believe about phone numbers[1] and Falsehoods programmers believe about emails[2]. We wanted to share some of the data we have seen from analyzing signups at scale and insights from great companies like Hubspot. It is by no means complete, so please share anything you believe is missing. [1] https://github.com/google/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHO... [2] https://beesbuzz.biz/co…
Comment linking /code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-email
on “Falsehoods programmers believe about signup pages”According to the Topaz developer[1], it was cracked over a year ago; apparently the Topaz algorithm was, like .azw before it, trivially bypassed by prodding at the KindleForPC application. Furthermore, Topaz is a rarely-used specialty format. It has existed for at least three years (based on the blog's date and text), but AZW/mobi continues to be by far the dominant format for purchased Kindle books. [1] http://bees…
Comment linking /blog/e/2010/01/07-interesting_topaz_drm_development.php
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