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Personal blog · byterot.blogspot.co.ukprogrammingwebsystems

Byte Rot is a personal blog at byterot.blogspot.co.uk about programming, web and systems. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked posts from Byte Rot, as shown by one comment, discuss the 'rule of most accessible' idea: approaching unfamiliar or complex entities from the most accessible angle one can understand. The comment quotes it without judging it.

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.

A blog on programming C#, REST, WCF, ASP.NET Web API and software architecture

What Hacker News says?

  1. " in confrontation with entities that we encounter for the first time or do not have enough appreciation of their complexity, we approach from the most accessible angle we can understand. " http://byterot.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/rule-of-most-accessibl...

    Comment linking /2015/09/rule-of-most-accessible-and-how-it-can-make-you-feel-better.html

    on “What Happens Next Will Amaze You”
  2. Submitted API Layer and its responsibilities, a REST viewpoint as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. I was exactly where you were. I felt I was solving problems that look almost trivial to me. Of course there are lots of hard distributed computing problems at the scale that Facebook and Google operate but not anyone is to work on them. I found scientific programming: i.e. using Machine Learning and related disciplines to solve hard AI problems. I can guarantee you might get frustrated by lack of success and hardshi…

    Comment linking /2015/01/future-of-programming-rise-of-the-scientific-developer-bigdata-datascience-machine-learning-and-fall-of-the-craftsman.html

    on “Ask HN: I am 30+ and bored with life and the software industry, what do I do?”
  4. Submitted Reactive Cloud Actors with BeeHive: Getting started as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Web APIs and n+1 problem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted CacheCow 0.5.0-alpha released for community review as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Media type: how much can you cram into a single token? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted How PayPal is helping Iranian government's internet censorship as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted What I think coupling is ... as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Reactive Cloud Actors with BeeHive 0.5, RabbitMQ and more as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted OWIN and Katana challenges: blues of a library developer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Add Caching ETags to your Web API as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted SuperBenchmarker - Apache Benchmark (ab.exe) on steroids as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Performance series: GUIDs vs. IDENTITY INT in RDBMS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Performance series: is thread contention bad? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How limitation can be source of goodness - NoSQL, REST and more as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Server-side TPL Async: Don't risk learning these lessons the hard way as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted What does REST's Client-Server mean now? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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