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Eccentric J

Personal blog · eccentric-j.com/blogprogramming

Eccentric J is a personal blog at eccentric-j.com about programming. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Clojure Like It's PHP: Use Clojure on Shared Web Hosts”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
6HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post about running Clojure code as CGI scripts with Babashka, Clojure used for shell scripting, as a tangent to a thread on Phel, a Clojure-inspired language that compiles to PHP.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Eccentric J’s blog on functional programming and software engineering.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Clojure Like It's PHP: Use Clojure on Shared Web Hosts
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-02-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. Bit tangential but there's a way to run Clojure code as CGI scripts with Babashka (Clojure for shell scripting): https://eccentric-j.com/blog/clojure-like-its-php.html

    Comment linking /blog/clojure-like-its-php.html

    on “Phel: A language inspired by Clojure that compiles to PHP”
  2. Submitted Clojure Like It's PHP: Use Clojure on Shared Web Hosts as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Clojure Like It's PHP: Use Clojure on Shared Web Hosts as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Clojure Like It's PHP: Use Clojure on Shared Web Hosts as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How do you finish big side projects? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Run Clojure CGI scripts on cheap shared hosting with babashka as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted My gentle introduction to hard-core open-source contribution as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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