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Desearch and Revelopment

Personal blog · etscrivner.github.ioprogrammingphilosophy

Desearch and Revelopment is a personal blog at etscrivner.github.io about programming and philosophy. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Building Large Flask Apps in the Real World”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its Flask application-building post and Crypto-Current, a 2018 series on Bitcoin and philosophy. The comments mention the posts as references without judging the writing.

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.

Experiments in abstract thought and the theory of software engineering.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Building Large Flask Apps in the Real World
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. These came up last week: https://etscrivner.github.io/posts/2014/10/building-large-fl... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11121355

    Comment linking /posts/2014/10/building-large-flask-apps-in-the-real-world/

    on “Discover Flask”
  2. Submitted Building Large Flask Apps in the Real World as a story · 358 points

    HN discussion
  3. Same conflation already happened upthread. Classic Sapir-Whorf stuff (rejected as that linguistic hypothesis might be.) Imagine trying to do philosophy in English, a language where blunt treachery passes for subtlety, and the normative complexity threshold is so pathetically low! The phrase "artificial intelligence production" (as seen here https://etscrivner.github.io/cryptocurrent/#_footnotedef_22 - courtesy of ht…

    Comment linking /cryptocurrent/

    on “The A.I. Monarchy”
  4. Submitted Building Large Flask Apps in the Real World as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Crypto-Current: Bitcoin and Philosophy (2018) https://etscrivner.github.io/cryptocurrent/ and the Twitter account of Nick Szabo is great: https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4 (his blog: https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/ )

    Comment linking /cryptocurrent/

    on “Ask HN: Blogs on Privacy and/or Blockchain Technologies?”

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