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David E. Wheeler
Personal blog · justatheory.comprogrammingdata
David E. Wheeler writes ❖ Just a Theory, a personal blog at justatheory.com about programming and data. Since 2009, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “PostgreSQL Extension Network (PGXN) Challenges”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David E. Wheeler's blog as a historical record: an OSCON 2004 note on the Parrot project and a bet with Guido van Rossum, and his introduction of MyTAP, a unit testing tool for MySQL.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Periodically irregular technology and culture blogging since 2002. By David E. Wheeler.
Most-linked posts?
- PostgreSQL Extension Network (PGXN) Challenges2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-30
What Hacker News says?
a long time ago, there was Parrot and a bet with Guido https://justatheory.com/2004/08/oscon-notes/
Comment linking /2004/08/oscon-notes/
on “Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler”Submitted PostgreSQL Development: Lessons for Perl? as a story · 39 points
HN discussionRelated blog post Introducing MyTAP : http://www.justatheory.com/computers/databases/mysql/introdu...
Comment linking /computers/databases/mysql/introducing_mysql.html
on “MyTAP: Unit Testing for MySQL”Submitted Great breakdown on what's wrong with most iPad magazines as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL Extension Network (PGXN) Challenges as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sqitch: Now with SQLite Support as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PGXN Development Project (PostgreSQL Extension Network) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL Extension Network development project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adventures in Extension Packaging as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contemplating Decentralized Extension Publishing for Postgres as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postgres PGXN Challenges as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Always Use TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Always Use Timestamp with Time Zone (2012) as a story · 1 points
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