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Patrick Joyce
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Patrick Joyce writes pragmatist, a personal blog at pragmati.st about programming and career. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-10, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked as a 2007 write-up of an Avi Bryant keynote on Smalltalk and Maglev. The comment cites it only as a pointer to that talk. No comment judges the writing.
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What Hacker News says?
It's on this page in the shipping section [1]. I remember it had something to do with live object databases too, back when Avi Bryant of DabbleDB [2] was heavily pushing the Ruby world towards Smalltalk in the 2007-2010 timeframe with Maglev [3]. [1] http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/successes/ [2] https://techcrunch.com/2006/03/11/dabbledb-online-app-buildi... [3] http://pragmati.st/2007/05/19/avi-bryant-keynote/
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