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Paul Jensen
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Paul Jensen's personal blog at paulbjensen.co.uk covers programming and web. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Critique of DHH's post "As I remember London"”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts as sources for criticism of DHH, the Rails creator behind Omarchy, over his views. The comments do not discuss the writing itself.
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.
My personal website, and some blog posts on tech and other topics
Most-linked posts?
- Critique of DHH's post "As I remember London"4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-09-18
- Thoughts on Rails, Node, and the web apps of today2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-07-12
What Hacker News says?
Agreed. I wrote this blog post: http://paulbjensen.co.uk/posts/2012/07/11/thoughts-on-rails-... Then Tony Arcieri wrote this rebuttal: http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/08/debunking-nodejs-gis... He made some good points in his post, but the snarkiness was in my opinion a bit uncalled for. Being labelled a Rails Enthusiast when I had worked with Rails for over 4 years (2007-2011), 2 of those at New Bamboo (a big…
Comment linking /posts/2012/07/11/thoughts-on-rails-node-and-the-web-apps-of-today
on “What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project”Submitted Thoughts on Rails, Node, and the web apps of today as a story · 83 points
HN discussionBecause Omarchy is a Linux distro by DHH and therefore you can also call it a "fascist and openly racist" Linux distro. DHH was someone I kinda read him online, but he's been going full-in on these racist talking points, e.g., https://paulbjensen.co.uk/2025/09/17/on-dhhs-as-i-remember-l... :(
Comment linking /2025/09/17/on-dhhs-as-i-remember-london.html
on “What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?”Submitted My response to "CoffeeScript means giving up on JavaScript" as a story · 39 points
HN discussionI used to work at a Ruby on Rails shop many years ago (New Bamboo, now part of ThoughtBot) which is in London. I got pointed to the blog post, and it was such a strikingly-bad hot take that I had to write a response: http://paulbjensen.co.uk/2025/09/17/on-dhhs-as-i-remember-lo... In my opinion, initially I thought "Oh David's been sucked into some kind of social media bubble (on X) or disinformation space", but then…
Comment linking /2025/09/17/on-dhhs-as-i-remember-london.html
on “Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]”Submitted Critique of DHH's post "As I remember London" as a story · 28 points
HN discussionIt looked good at the beginning, but then I found out about its creator - DHH. Not someone I want to support. There are better distros out there (Omarchy isn't a distro btw). Just a few issues highlighted here: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug... https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance https://paulbjensen.co.uk/2025/09/17/on-dhhs-as-i-remember-l...
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on “Emacs is my new window manager (2015)”Submitted DHH's "As I Remember London" as a story · 9 points
HN discussionLet's not forget Grape either: https://github.com/intridea/grape You could see this move towards JSON APIs way back in 2012 as I suggested here: http://paulbjensen.co.uk/posts/2012/07/11/thoughts-on-rails-... . Some poo-pooed the notion, but you can clearly see that the popularity of realtime frameworks and the way that apps are built client-side heavy is pulling Rails in this direction. Performance is still the key…
Comment linking /posts/2012/07/11/thoughts-on-rails-node-and-the-web-apps-of-today
on “Rails API is coming to Rails 5”Submitted Thoughts on Rails, Node, and the web apps of today as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWebsite is still down, that's a shame - OP can't even get the homepage back online before showing HN. 30 minutes to bring back a homepage is pretty bad man, also your personal homepage http://paulbjensen.co.uk is returning NO CONTENT, is that on the same (bricked) server?
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on “Show HN: Dashku - a real-time dashboard app, built with SocketStream”Submitted Testing SocketStream apps with Cucumber as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPosted a response: Article: http://paulbjensen.co.uk/blog/2011/11/06/my-response-to-coff... HN Link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203181
Comment linking /blog/2011/11/06/my-response-to-coffeescript-means-giving-up-on-javascript
on “CoffeeScript Means Giving Up on JavaScript”Submitted Apple is building a social network, you just don't see it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fama's Efficient Market Hypothesis and real-time financial information as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Take Stock as a story · 1 points
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