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Michael Kowalchik

Personal blog · mikepk.com · on HN as mikepkprogrammingstartups

Michael Kowalchik writes Python, a personal blog at mikepk.com about programming and startups. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-05, and you can follow it by feed.

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2009–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2009

Michael Kowalchik (mikepk) writes about programming, technology and lots of random things.

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mikepk · 214 karma · member since 2010

Creative hacker, startup founder, Bostonian. Current startup: Matterbeam - rethinking data site: https://matterbeam.com blog: https://mikepk.com email: mikepk (@) matterbeam.com former startups: Smarterer Grazr

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What Hacker News says?

  1. First I want to say that, in many (most) cases, when people ask me what python web framework they should use, I wholeheartedly recommend Django. Unless... the person is a weirdo, like me. In most cases people are looking to prove some idea and they just want the web framework equivalent of "a car that gets me from point A to point B I don't care how.", Django gets the job done and in that capacity is really nice to…

    Comment linking /2010/08/python_django_forms_errors_fieldsets/

    on “Why Django Sucks”
  2. Submitted The Grazr widget will stop functioning as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Wow memories. My first startup, grazr.com created a feed processing system that could achieve similar (imho superior) results to pipes and worked in a different way ( https://mikepk.com/2007/03/grazrscript-v12-beta/ ). The idea was to use actual code (rather than graphical drag-drop) to write feed processing and transformation applications. We used server side javascript (before Node, I like to think we were ahead o…

    Comment linking /2007/03/grazrscript-v12-beta/

    on “Yahoo Pipes”
  4. Submitted Fear is a blank sheet of paper as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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