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Joseph B. Ottinger

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Joseph B. Ottinger writes Enigmastation.com, a personal blog at enigmastation.com about programming and systems. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2010

This is Joseph B. Ottinger’s personal website.

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  1. Also: one of the features of the underlying tech stack is that the UI is actually a completely separate module than the backend API. Different github repo, everything: the site is akshually https://api.bytecode.news and the UI at the "base url" is just one layer for that API. The goal was always to have multiple interfaces, all tuned for whatever the technology supported best: see https://enigmastation.com/2014/07/0…

    Comment linking /2014/07/09/repost-some-of-what-id-wanted-to-do-for-theserverside/

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  2. Submitted Learning new languages considered harmful? No. as a story · 17 points

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  3. Submitted I can't stand the Free Software Foundation as a story · 4 points

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  4. Submitted An Incomplete Introduction to OWLAPI as a story · 4 points

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  5. Submitted It’s time to set Java free. « Enigmastation.com as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted Considering Data Stores (a look at java storage systems) as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted Java Surgery: Spring Injection of Other Beans’ Properties « Enigmastation.com as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Java Surgery: Timing Method Calls as a story · 1 points

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