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DPP's Blog is a personal blog at blog.goodstuff.im about programming. Since 2012, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Yes, Virginia, Scala is hard”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-18, and you can follow it by feed.

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25mentions?
22HN people?
2012–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2013

Most-linked posts?

  1. Yes, Virginia, Scala is hard
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-08-25
  2. Don't use 1Password (2017)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. taeric · 2014-09-06
    "Constantly making waves" is probably more accurate from the days back when Tony Morris was active on the mailing lists. Paul, I believe, also made a fair bit of waves back in the day, but for some reason his were always much more palatable. (He has a very good writing style and is never, that I really remember, flat out mean.) I guess the big waves I remember are essentially about a post a week from Tony. The hoopl…

    Comment linking /yes-virginia-scala-is-hard

    on “Policy – A fork of the Scala compiler”
  2. erlend_sh · 2016-08-28

    Submitted Docker not ready for primetime as a story · 490 points

    HN discussion
  3. cageface · 2012-06-21
    David Pollak has long been one of Scala's greatest champions but his grudging acceptance that Scala is hard, from a lot of experience in the field, is worth a read: http://blog.goodstuff.im/yes-virginia-scala-is-hard/

    Comment linking /yes-virginia-scala-is-hard/

    on “Experiment: Unit testing isn't enough; You need static types, too ”
  4. aatifh · 2013-04-18

    Submitted So, I tried Dwolla as a story · 200 points

    HN discussion
  5. naruhodo · 2021-11-03
    > I just with there was a Lisp like it that didn't run on the JVM. There are a few, with varying degrees of distance from the JVM and varying degrees of similarity to Clojure. - There's ClojureScript, which is Clojure transpiled to JavaScript. - See also Lumo (<https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo>) and Planck (<https://planck-repl.org/guide-all.html>) - There's Babashka ( https://github.com/babashka/babashka ), which…

    Comment linking /pixie

    on “Differences with other Lisps”
  6. coding4all · 2015-03-09

    Submitted Pixie: A sweet Clojure-ish language as a story · 140 points

    HN discussion
  7. patrec · 2016-11-28
    I like many things about datomic and was in a position to use datomic for a product twice. Each time when I looked at the license it basically said cognitect will make you your bitch now and you're not allowed to talk about it to anyone. We live in a world of ridiculous software licenses, but it was the most ridiculous license I remember ever having encountered. This for a product which required a big leap of faith…

    Comment linking /datomic_license

    on “Datomic Update: Client API, Unlimited Peers, Enterprise Edition, and More”
  8. DanielRibeiro · 2014-04-28

    Submitted My Thoughts on the Datomic License as a story · 122 points

    HN discussion
  9. wmhtet · 2014-05-13
    Java(blue collar language http://dfjug.org/thefeelofjava.pdf ) is easy. Scala is not( http://blog.goodstuff.im/yes-virginia-scala-is-hard ). (I am a Scala fan.)

    Comment linking /yes-virginia-scala-is-hard

    on “Scala – The Simple Parts”
  10. kaptain · 2018-05-21

    Submitted Don't use 1Password (2017) as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  11. macmac · 2014-11-09
    This is a very interesting question. The only person I know of who has done this is David Pollak of Scala Lift fame http://blog.goodstuff.im/about

    Comment linking /about

    on “Ask HN: Lawyers who left to 'hack', what has your career trajectory been like?”
  12. krzyzanowskim · 2017-07-11

    Submitted Why you should move away from AgileBits as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  13. pron · 2014-05-11

    Submitted Oracle v. Google, a mitigated disaster as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  14. pron · 2013-06-06

    Submitted My Clojure Setup as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. itistoday2 · 2012-11-06

    Submitted Verifiable Electronic Voting, Easy as Prime as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. skandl · 2017-03-07

    Submitted Embracing the Illegal (2013) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. aatifh · 2013-04-19

    Submitted Update: Dwolla working to make it right as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. timf · 2012-12-20

    Submitted Oy, scalac as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. friendlytuna · 2012-12-17

    Submitted Enough Already as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. sorenbs · 2015-03-01

    Submitted Visi: Simple Web Front End to Spark as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Sandman · 2014-01-10

    Submitted What TypeSafe Should be Working On as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. frostmatthew · 2013-12-07

    Submitted Tech needs to be more inclusive as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. DanielRibeiro · 2013-06-12

    Submitted When is a Dynamic Language Good? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. shawndumas · 2013-05-22

    Submitted A hollow voice said "plugh" as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. ExpiredLink · 2012-08-25

    Submitted Yes, Virginia, Scala is hard as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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