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Joshua Barretto
Personal blog · blog.jsbarretto.com/postprogrammingaipolitics
Joshua Barretto's personal blog at blog.jsbarretto.com covers programming, ai and politics. Since 2025, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Writing toy software is a joy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one bare link to the post 'software is joy', with a question mark and no comment on the writing. The title is the only clue to its topic.
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.
A blog about software, safety, and politics.
Most-linked posts?
- Writing toy software is a joy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-19
- Some things Veloren does differently3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-15
- Large Language Models2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-26
- OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-18
- Software Provenance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-10
- Languages as Designed Latent Spaces2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-23
What Hacker News says?
https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy ?
Comment linking /post/software-is-joy
on a deleted threadSubmitted Writing toy software is a joy as a story · 820 points
HN discussionSubmitted OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing as a story · 84 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Toy Software Is a Joy as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted All Roads Lead to Disaster as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some things Veloren does differently as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Remain a Skeptic as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most intellectual labour is proof of work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We are replacing OOP with something worse as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Large Language Models as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Large Language Models as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some things Veloren does differently as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some things Veloren does differently as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Languages as Designed Latent Spaces as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Languages as Designed Latent Spaces as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding 'Human.json' Support as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Provenance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted External Visitation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Provenance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted NIH and Nihilism as a story · 1 points
HN discussion