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Dylan Beattie
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Dylan Beattie's personal blog at dylanbeattie.net covers programming and culture. Since 2015, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “The Laws of Distributed Systems”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-15, 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 Dylan Beattie's posts on why English pluralization rules are hard to systemize and on using ImageMagick for efficient image resizing, including which resampling filters to pick.
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.
Dylan Beattie's personal web site, where he writes about code, technology and travel, and shares funny music videos about software development.
Most-linked posts?
- The Laws of Distributed Systems3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-01
- The problem with "vibe coding"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-12
- Java was not underhyped in 1997 (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-10
What Hacker News says?
English language pluralization rules are almost impossible to systemize in a way that always makes sense http://www.dylanbeattie.net/2017/04/theres-problem-with-phal...
Comment linking /2017/04/theres-problem-with-phalange.html
on “Programming with a love of the implicit”Submitted So you want to speak at software conferences? as a story · 239 points
HN discussion> best results with Triangle also known as bilinear interpolation Just no. Use bilinear only when you need very fast resizing and don't care about quality much. Lanczos and sinc [1] filters are considered "best" for wide range of images (no visible blurring or sharpening, almost no moire effects), but they are also among slower ones. Use Catmull-Rom when images need to be sharpened a bit. (See [2] for comparison and…
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on “Efficient Image Resizing with ImageMagick”Submitted Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022) as a story · 143 points
HN discussionSubmitted The problem with "vibe coding" as a story · 135 points
HN discussionSubmitted Java was not underhyped in 1997 (2021) as a story · 88 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bring back alt.NET as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email vs. Capitalism: A Story About Why We Can't Have Nice Things as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're Gonna Build a Framework as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Laws of Distributed Systems as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mystery of the Chinese Junk as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with Vibe Coding as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Laws of Distributed Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted ASP.NET Core 1.0 High Performance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Java Criminally Underhyped? Not Back in 1997. (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted There’s a problem with the phalange as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is a 100% Discount the Same as "Free"? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing the Right Path as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Musical Parodies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted About That Meetup.com Announcement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dylan Beattie: Development Methodologies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted It Works on My Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted NET/C# devs: what should we cover at the Progressive.NET Tutorials 2017? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Laws of Distributed Systems as a story · 1 points
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