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Pablo Meier
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Pablo Meier writes More Pablo: all, a personal blog at morepablo.com about programming and culture. Since 2018, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Where have all the hackers gone?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-21, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Pablo Meier's programming posts: a Prolog solution to a Layton puzzle, a piece on JavaScript's origin, and an essay comparing software developers to rockstars.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A website where Pablo Meier Pablo Meiers, usually about code, culture, performance, and where they all meet. Also, the life of Pablo Meiers
Most-linked posts?
- Where have all the hackers gone?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-17
- Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-23
- Household Pi Projects (2022)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-20
- Responsible optimism for ML, which is still Programming's Asbestos (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-07
- So you're using a weird language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-05
What Hacker News says?
It's made my life way, way better It's not a panacea, and the way people talk about it drives me crazy. There are many different modalities, with very different levels of effectiveness for any given person. CBT is awful for me, for example, and it's the most popular modality. I also did ketamine-assisted therapy and it absolutely changed my life. There are definitely people who won't get anything from it, but the re…
Comment linking /2023/12/therapy-and-wellness.html
on “I am rich and have no idea what to do”Submitted So you're using a weird language as a story · 238 points
HN discussionhttps://morepablo.com Some tech, some culture, some of my life, whatever was interesting to me that day or few days. Have some favorites/highlights on that front page.
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Responsible optimism for ML, which is still Programming's Asbestos (2023) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhile I didn't try to use Docker (though we did use the same pxhere image :-p), I also struggled to get a productive setup of OCaml. Getting a switch running wasn't the hard part, it was making the environment suitable for real project work. I had a set of Make targets in mind (test, build, shell), some language dev features I wanted (jump to definition, type of expression under cursor), and some properties of the p…
Comment linking /2019/08/fresco-jesus-ocaml-setup.html
on “Programming a space invader in OCaml and OpenGL: lessons learned”Submitted Where have all the hackers gone? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDon't understand why the article uses SWI's constraint libs when the problem is easily solved using pure ISO Prolog with code readily linked from the article even ie Pablo's solution at [2]. Just paste that code into [1] and append the line (or place it at the start, doesn't matter) :- initialization(colin_score(X)). to tell Prolog which top-level goal to solve and hit Execute to see the solution in your browser. [1…
Comment linking /2010/09/some-professor-layton-prolog.html
on “Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog”Submitted Household Pi Projects (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://morepablo.com/img/2018/5/js_good_parts.jpg
Comment linking /img/2018/5/js_good_parts.jpg
on “Was Javascript really made in 10 days?”Submitted Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHaha I was checking the comments precisely to see if this was the case. This happens nearly everywhere a language that isn't Java, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, or JavaScript is used. IMO it has more to do with tech labor arbitrage[1] than anything technical. Even if a system is punching above its weight, over time, the Weird Language Choice spooks people enough that they get the rewrite bug. Bleacher Report is a funny exa…
Comment linking /2023/05/where-have-all-the-hackers-gone.html
on “Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)”Submitted Services, monoliths, modularity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHi! Have we met? Elixir has been great for our Authorization server. I really believe in the BEAM for high-uptime cases, and love a lot about Ecto's design as an ORM. That said, I only felt comfortable bringing Elixir to Ramp because I'd already built ~3 Pheonix projects before joining, and had a decade on other Erlang projects. I make a light reference to it in a few places in the article, but I think introducing W…
Comment linking /2022/09/so-you-re-using-a-weird-language.html
on “Where have all the hackers gone?”Submitted Pi Projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think the "rock star" analogy did more damage to our profession than most care to admit. Rock stars get treated a certain way, they are catered to, their egos might get fluffed up, etc. None of those behaviors are compatible with working in software teams, and none of the "best" developers I know want to be treated that way, anyhow. That said, I think this article is essentially correct. I would put it like this:…
Comment linking /2022/04/against-boring.html
on “Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry”Submitted Responsible optimism for ML, which is still Programming's Asbestos as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAuthor here; I have a lot of other posts in my personal blog about this, but: the current trends in VC-backed tech companies are about minimizing risk and following fashion, rather than any technical merit or experimentation. Said another way: if an Elixir company dies, it's "damn, shouldn't have picked Elixir!" If a Python company dies, it's "startups are hard," with no investigation behind what Python cost you. I…
Comment linking /2023/06/creatives-industries.html
on “Elixir at Ramp”Submitted Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThanks for the kind words! Another comment mentions it, but last I checked Elixir is still powering the Authorization service. You might be interested in a "making of" post I wrote on my personal blog, going into the intentions and crafting of this https://morepablo.com/2023/03/technical-storytelling-making-...
Comment linking /2023/03/technical-storytelling-making-of-elixir-at-ramp.html
on “Elixir at Ramp”Submitted Programming Culture in the Late Aughts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Where have all the hackers gone?” + a way to discuss programming languages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineer Showboating as a story · 1 points
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