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Mark Story
Personal blog · mark-story.com/postsprogrammingweb
Mark Story's personal blog at mark-story.com covers programming and web. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Mark Story's blog for its PHP posts, including PHP 5.5 and the state of PHP's APIs. The comments discuss the topic and do not judge the writing itself.
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.
What Hacker News says?
>Sorry, but you obviously have not been taking notice over the past year or two. I'll admit, I haven't really, because I'll turn it round, why would I? We've seen Erlang start to be used quite a lot, Scala is becoming very interesting, and F# is appearing suitably mainstreme. What features would make me think "hmm, I should check out what they are doing in PHP"? Looking now I still see a cluttered array of APIs, som…
Comment linking /posts/view/static-analysis-tools-for-php
on “PHP 5.5”Submitted Using MongoDB with CakePHP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJust tried signing up and I'm in a stuck position. • I generate very long passwords (50 characters by default) with 1Password. I usually include special characters—the one I used included ',{<' and the asterisk. • The signup field accepted my password—and the signup email included the password I had provided in cleartext…at least it did up until the '<' (where there were probably another ~20 characters left). • Neit…
Comment linking /posts/view/using-bcrypt-for-passwords-in-cakephp);
on “Show HN: Keep your customers informed and aware”