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Bozhidar Batsov
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Bozhidar Batsov writes Meta Redux, a personal blog at metaredux.com about programming. Since 2018, 40 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times, most often “The RuboCop Name Drama Redux”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bozhidar Batsov's blog for his writing on the RuboCop name controversy, including his response to pressure to rename the project. Comments also touch on his Ruby and Clojure posts.
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- One commenter really liked the author's response after he closed the request and people kept commenting on it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writings on programming and open-source by Bozhidar Batsov, creator of RuboCop, CIDER, and Prelude.
Most-linked posts?
- The RuboCop Name Drama Redux4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-06-08
- The Books That Every Programmer Should Read3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-27
- Need for Speed: Using RuboCop with Prism3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-19
- Ruby, Where Do We Go Now?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-06
- CIDER's Orchard (Clojure)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-14
- Ruby's Creed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-02
- Cider 1.02 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-28
- A Safer RuboCop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-07
- RuboCop v1.0 Released2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-21
- Weird Ruby: The Double Aliased Enumerable Method2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-08
What Hacker News says?
Other examples: - "master"/"slave" terminology in databases and such; most recently, even the "master" branch in source trees was deemed impious, and GitHub will be renaming it by default to "main" on new repos starting tomorrow - there was a recent case where the author of RuboCop (a linter for Ruby, a pun on RoboCop) faced a lot of pressure to rename it because, I guess, cops are now considered verboten (!?): http…
Comment linking /posts/2020/06/08/the-rubocop-name-drama-redux.html
on “Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission”Submitted Cider 1.0 as a story · 233 points
HN discussionSomebody brought up a point about outdated documentation. Currently https://clojuredocs.org is sort of the go to place. It wins due to Google algorithm. I wanted to add the ability to vote on answers provided there. So that you have the ability to see the most relevant/popular answer, rather than the oldest. Raised an issue on the repo, four years ago now. No response: https://github.com/zk/clojuredocs/issues/222 An…
Comment linking /posts/2019/06/29/farewell-grimoire.html
on “Why Clojure?”Submitted Ruby's Creed as a story · 221 points
HN discussionI hope... this is not another feature that is added to Ruby at the sake of the functional programming trend. Rubycop’s author criticized[0] Ruby 2.7 for losing a direction/vision where Ruby should go (which sparked controversial operators that were quickly removed). Most of them looks like, at least to me, trying to fit a functional programming features in an inherently object-oriented language to be ‘hip’. Like...…
Comment linking /posts/2019/12/06/ruby-where-do-we-go-now.html
on “Pattern Matching in Ruby 2.7 (2019)”Submitted Back to Linux as a story · 103 points
HN discussionHere's a link to a blog post detailing the thinking of Bozhidar Batsov, RuboCop's author: https://metaredux.com/posts/2020/06/08/the-rubocop-name-dram...
Comment linking /posts/2020/06/08/the-rubocop-name-drama-redux.html
on “Theres a Campaign to Rename the Software “RuboCop” Because “Cop” Is Offensive”Submitted nREPL 0.6 as a story · 83 points
HN discussionHere is the recap of someone is interested https://metaredux.com/posts/2023/09/09/clojure-support-in-em...
Comment linking /posts/2023/09/09/clojure-support-in-emacs-one-unnecessary-drama.html
on “Bad News, Emacs”Submitted Semantic Clojure Formatting as a story · 80 points
HN discussionI really like the author's response after he closed the request and people kept commenting on it. > Disclaimer: I'm starting to write this at 7 am in my morning, so my thoughts are a bit incoherent. > I wonder how all of you would feel if suddenly a ton of people who haven't done anything for the project appeared here, told you're a horrible person and started bullying you into doing what they want... > For almost a…
Comment linking /posts/2020/06/08/the-rubocop-name-drama-redux.html
on “The RuboCop Name Drama Redux”Submitted State of CIDER Survey 2019 as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weird Ruby: Nil Conversions as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted The RuboCop Name Drama Redux as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weird Ruby: Positive and Negative Strings as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure IDE in Emacs – Cider 1.18 ("Athens") Released as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby, Where Do We Go Now? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted RuboCop v1.0 Released as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted RuboCop Turns 10 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back to Linux as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Books That Every Programmer Should Read as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hasta La Vista Gmail as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supercharge Your Bash History as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discovering Runtime Function References in Clojure as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weird Ruby: The Double Aliased Enumerable Method as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weird Ruby: A Weird Way to Filter Out Elements as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advent of Open Source as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Cornucopia of nREPL Updates as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure Cider 0.23 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure CIDER 0.22 (“São Paulo”) as a story · 3 points
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