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Code To Joy
Personal blog · codetojoy.blogspot.comprogramming
Code To Joy is a personal blog at codetojoy.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Code To Joy: Open-Source group announces jJava”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments link to the blog's older posts on an April Fools open-source joke and a closures joke, and one discusses analogy in physics. None judges the writing; the linked posts cover programming and tech culture.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Code To Joy : putting the thrill back in blog.
Most-linked posts?
- Code To Joy: Open-Source group announces jJava2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-08
What Hacker News says?
It's just the same issue at another level. There's no reason that something can't have both properties. The issue is that it jars our preconceptions, which are formed from the things we've encountered so far. We want to understand things in terms of what we've seen. That's a basis of analogical reasoning. It's kind of like the "monad tutorial" problem in software. Everyone tries to reach for analogy for that computa…
Comment linking /2009/03/monads-are-burritos.html
on “There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)”Submitted The Case for Clojure as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI was also reminded of one: http://codetojoy.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-source-group-anno... ... didn't know this was an April 1st tradition though
Comment linking /2008/04/open-source-group-announces-jjava.html
on “Why we rewrote Lua in JS (2017)”Submitted You Should Learn New Languages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSome of the things that have been added to the list since it was posted to HN are actually obnoxious: Laughing at jokes like this ( http://codetojoy.blogspot.com/2007/08/closures-are-hot.html ) because women holding bumper stickers about closures is funny in the same way pictures of cats "reading" calculus books is funny, rather than wondering whether your colleagues see you in the same way as those women. I do thin…
Comment linking /2007/08/closures-are-hot.html
on “The Male Programmer Privilege Checklist”Submitted Code To Joy: Open-Source group announces jJava as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Reviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open-Source group announces jJava (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lonely Planet for Languages as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
