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Don Stewart
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Don Stewart's personal blog at shimweasel.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2009, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “You Need a Novelty Budget (2018)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Don Stewart's blog for its Haskell posts, such as one arguing Haskell compiles quickly, and for "The Stewart Method: How Not To Suck", which one commenter named as inspirational.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- You Need a Novelty Budget (2018)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-09-02
- You need a novelty budget2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-09
- The Don Stewart Method: write code every day, release a project every week2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-08
What Hacker News says?
It's a common misconception that Haskell is slow to compile but not really true, see for example: http://www.shimweasel.com/2016/10/24/fast-tests-and-static-l...
Comment linking /2016/10/24/fast-tests-and-static-languages
on “A Taste of Haskell”Submitted The Don Stewart Method: write code every day, release a project every week as a story · 104 points
HN discussionTo name a few... "The Stewart Method: How Not To Suck" -- http://www.shimweasel.com/2011/05/08/the-stewart-method-how-... Chris Dixon's "Some lessons learned" -- http://cdixon.org/2011/09/28/some-lessons-learned "Thrust, Drag and the 10x Effect" -- http://www.tempobook.com/2011/10/25/thrust-drag-and-the-10x-...
Comment linking /2011/05/08/the-stewart-method-how-not-to-suck
on “Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?”Submitted You Need a Novelty Budget (2018) as a story · 28 points
HN discussion> rebase can be undone, precisely because it does not write over the old history Good point. Perhaps "rewrite history" is not the best metaphor, and does not cover all possible git workflows. I only considered the workflows where a rebased branch is merged back onto master instead of its non-rebased variant, which loses its name, its remote copy/copies and is eventually hit by the GC. > the very idea that rewriting…
Comment linking /2018/08/25/novelty-budgets
on “Why I'm using Fossil SCM instead of other source control systems (2016)”Submitted Hubris and GHC 6.12 + dynamic linking as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMe: dynamic -> static What did I feel during the transition: Feel like an insulted because of the under-expressiveness. Everyday I find some ideas that are natural to me and non-tech people couldn't be codified directly. Although statically typed languages are getting better each year, I still think there's a trade-off among three camps: 1. Dynamic (Ruby, JavaScript) 2. Under-expressive static (Java, C#) 3. Expressi…
Comment linking /2018/08/25/novelty-budgets
on “Ask HN: Are there senior devs who liked switching from static to dynamic typing?”Submitted You need a novelty budget as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You need a novelty budget (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast tests and static languages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You need a novelty budget as a story · 1 points
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