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Paul Butcher

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Paul Butcher's personal blog at paulbutcher.com covers programming and writing. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “An Introduction to Datalog in Flix”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Paul Butcher's series of Datalog posts. One commenter pointed out that the original links were broken and gave the working URL for the series.

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?

  1. An Introduction to Datalog in Flix
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. Heads up, the links to Paul Butcher's datalog posts are broken. The series can be found here now: https://paulbutcher.com/datalog1.html

    Comment linking /datalog1.html

    on “Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language”
  2. Submitted Pronking for Programmers as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted An Introduction to Datalog in Flix as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted An Introduction to Datalog in Flix as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Refactoring: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Mock objects on Android with Borachio as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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