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For Some Value of "Magic"
Personal blog · holdenweb.blogspot.comprogrammingculture
For Some Value of "Magic" is a personal blog at holdenweb.blogspot.com about programming and culture. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Steve Holden's Python-focused blog, linked for his apology about the PyCon incident and his reply in the 2010 'stupid template languages' debate with Mike Bayers and Armin Ronacher.
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.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" -- Arthur C Clarke Musings from the technological frontier
What Hacker News says?
http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2012/12/im-sorry.html
Comment linking /2012/12/im-sorry.html
on “The PyCon Incident”Submitted Bradley Manning's Post-Sentencing Statement as a story · 412 points
HN discussionMike Bayers response: http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2010/12/04/in-response-to-stupid-... Steve Holden's response: http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2010/12/templating-systems.htm... Armin Ronacher's response: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/12/5/not-so-stupid-template-lan...
Comment linking /2010/12/templating-systems.html
on “Stupid template languages”Submitted Why Save MySQL Now? as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted Childish behaviour as a story · 62 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blip.tv Deletes Python Content as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Rock Star” Programmers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python Gets Security Plaudit as a story · 1 points
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