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Orbifolds and Other Games
Personal blog · orbifold.xyzprogrammingphilosophy
Orbifolds and Other Games is a personal blog at orbifold.xyz about programming and philosophy. Since 2019, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Meditations on the Zen of Python”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Orbifolds and Other Games for its 'Meditations on the Zen of Python' essay on Pythonic software design, cited in a discussion of where a Python phrase came from.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Meditations on the Zen of Python3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-01
What Hacker News says?
Yeah I wonder if they arrived at the phrase independently. I think Jacob Kaplan-Moss was inspired by Python's standard library. It seems the owner of that PEP could probably provide more context. He wrote "Meditations on the Zen of Python" recently which means he's still thinking about pythonic software design: https://orbifold.xyz/zen-of-python.html
Comment linking /zen-of-python.html
on “Why does a new Rails app need 106 MB of JavaScript?”Submitted DRY Is a Trade-Off as a story · 216 points
HN discussionSubmitted So you want to create a universe as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meditations on the Zen of Python as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reading the Documentation for Popular Products as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Universal Binary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Various Shapes and Forms of Numbers in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Or Else as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meditations on the Zen of Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Problems with a Tool as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Post That Unfinished PR as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardest logic puzzle ever (in Python) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comfort with Small Mistakes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Orbifolds and Other Games – Interfaces Are Forever as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Local LRU Cache as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Make It Callable as a story · 1 points
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