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Markus Unterwaditzer
Personal blog · unterwaditzer.netprogrammingweb
Markus Unterwaditzer's personal blog at unterwaditzer.net covers programming and web. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “I hope WebDAV dies”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on API wrapper design, cited in a thread on cognitive load as a similar principle to "APIs should be deep, not wide".
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- I hope WebDAV dies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-14
What Hacker News says?
A similar design principle is called “APIs should be deep, not wide”: https://unterwaditzer.net/2024/api-wrappers.html
Comment linking /2024/api-wrappers.html
on “Cognitive load is what matters”Submitted Cool URIs can be ugly (2023) as a story · 154 points
HN discussionSubmitted I hope WebDAV dies as a story · 102 points
HN discussionSubmitted Relative paths are faster than absolute paths on Linux as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted I hope WebDAV dies as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Simple Synchronization Algorithm as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using type hints in Python 2 libraries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A bad citizen in Pythonland as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A guide to test parametrization in Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to create a traceback object in Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I created vdirsyncer as a story · 1 points
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