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Joe Gregorio
Personal blog · bitworking.orgprogrammingwebmath
Joe Gregorio writes BitWorking, a personal blog at bitworking.org about programming, web and math. Since 2007, 46 different Hacker News readers have linked it 82 times, most often “Why so many Python web frameworks?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Joe Gregorio - REST, Web, Go, APIs, Dad, Husband, Maker, or any linear combination of such. Googler.
Most-linked posts?
- Why so many Python web frameworks?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-04-30
- No more JavaScript frameworks4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-05-12
- RESTify DayTrader2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-24
- Looking back on five years of web components2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-15
- Why robots.txt and favicon.ico are bad ideas and should be eliminated.2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-03
- Prometheus vs. InfluxDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-18
- Does REST need a description document?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-02
- An Introduction to Geometric Algebra2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-22
What Hacker News says?
https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/
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on “It's not a crime if we do it with an app”Submitted No more JavaScript frameworks as a story · 241 points
HN discussionLemme guess, libertarian? Or at least "fiscally conservative, socially liberal"? Blind faith in the Free Market Fairy ( https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/The-Free-Market-Fairy ) is a big part of how we got here. As Einstein said, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them".
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on “Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system”Submitted An Introduction to Geometric Algebra as a story · 230 points
HN discussionhttps://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/
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on “Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content”Submitted Why so many Python web frameworks? as a story · 110 points
HN discussionPerhaps "The Harmful Consequences of Postel's Maxim"?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9824638 If not, perhaps one of these: http://programmingisterrible.com/post/42215715657/postels-pr... https://bitworking.org/news/There_are_no_exceptions_to_Poste... http://trevorjim.com/postels-law-is-not-for-you/
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on “Parsing JSON is a Minefield”Submitted The End Of Stuff as a story · 60 points
HN discussionJust a reminder: https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/
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on “Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace”Submitted The Atom Publishing Protocol is a failure as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI rarely see such purely expressed faith in the Free Market Fairy: https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/
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on “What Went Wrong?”Submitted No more JS frameworks as a story · 24 points
HN discussion> A free market fixes anything https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/
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on “Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?”Submitted Joel-in-a-box as a story · 19 points
HN discussionNo, they get it: http://bitworking.org/news/Why_so_many_Python_web_frameworks (That's a post assembling a light framework from libraries...) They just didn't go through the list of features and explain that each one doesn't necessarily need to be coupled to the others.
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on “No more JavaScript frameworks”Submitted Shadow DOM and CSS as a story · 15 points
HN discussionhttps://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/
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on “"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs”Submitted The many possiblities of CCD technology as a story · 14 points
HN discussion> competition between employees Ah yes, the invocation of the Free Market Fairy https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/
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on “How Amazon Crushes Unions”Submitted Bloom Filter Based RESTful Resources as a story · 12 points
HN discussionhttps://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/
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on “Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content”Submitted Python isn't just Java without the compile as a story · 12 points
HN discussion> a market for governments This is the myth of the Free Market Fairy - https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/The-Free-Market-Fairy And the ways that "everything is a market" distorts and destroys are covered in this long read: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/18/neoliberalism-t...
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on “Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals”Submitted Why robots.txt and favicon.ico are bad ideas and should be eliminated. as a story · 11 points
HN discussionA couple of things seem off on this perspective, mostly that modern web development has gotten weird, irrespective of Rails. "The ambiguous, english-like syntax of ruby that makes rails so easy, is exactly why it’s not simple." First, I found Rails simple and easy, but it has become more complex over time as it has grown to support a variety of uses. The simplicity is not just because of Ruby, which is a low ceremon…
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on “Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software”Submitted Patented FUD as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThe idea of hard coding a URI, like is done for robots.txt is a bad idea. Let's not continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. -- http://bitworking.org/news/No_Fishing Fair comment here[1] about the specific case of robots.txt, but lets not do this kind of thing gratuitously. Maybe what we need instead is the X-BOFH header[2]: X-BOFH: http://www.xxxxx.de/bofh/xxxxxx.html The actual URL it points to has…
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on “Humans.txt, like robots.txt, but for humans.”Submitted CS Broke as a story · 8 points
HN discussionPeople are still working the same retail jobs they did in the days before 24/7 expectations and, after taking into account inflation, making about the same amount of money. https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/
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on “The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'”Submitted Looking back on five years of web components as a story · 6 points
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