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Paul M. Jones
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Paul M. Jones's personal blog at paul-m-jones.com covers programming. Since 2008, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “PHP Frameworks Benchmarks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-25, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Paul M. Jones's blog is linked for posts on PHP frameworks and benchmarks, open-source and manager relations, and intellectual humility. Commenters cite it as a reference.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- PHP Frameworks Benchmarks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-09-01
What Hacker News says?
I expounded on the gift-giving theme as well, some years ago, and am glad to see I was not alone: http://paul-m-jones.com/post/2018/12/11/open-source-and-sque...
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on “The gift of it's your problem now”Submitted On the Proposed PHP Code of Conduct as a story · 90 points
HN discussionIntellectually humble people is a rarity these days, In contrast you have an abundance of [1]Intellectual bullies which are very popular toxic crowd in places like twitter/reddit and sadly even on HN. [1] http://paul-m-jones.com/post/2008/11/07/patterns-of-intellec...
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on “Are You Intellectually Humble?”Submitted Controllers Are Services as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSee also "All You Jokers, aka How To Train Your Manager". Slides: http://paul-m-jones.com/talks/how-to-train-your-manager.pdf Video: https://vimeo.com/80271777 (I am the author/presenter.)
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on “Developers, your manager is likely clueless”Submitted BREAD, not CRUD as a story · 11 points
HN discussion> Those standards are are a very accurate representation of the way the best, most popular open source PHP code is being written. PHP-FIG members have repeatedly cautioned[1][2][3][4] that the PSRs (notably PSR-2) are not a set of best practices, but merely a survey of commonalities of PHP-FIG member projects. Even then, several member projects do not, and have stated they will not, implement PSR-1 and/or PSR-2. Tre…
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on “A command line refactoring tool for PHP”Submitted Social Justice Attack Survival Guide as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHis assertions are not confidence inspiring: http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=413#comment-410123
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on “Benchmarking Tornado vs. Twisted Web vs. Tornado on Twisted vs. Unicorn”Submitted What to do about the Linux CoC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYep, I'd expect it to halve the requests per second for every test. Paul Jones (created the Solar framework) periodically releases some pretty authoritative benchmarks for the major PHP frameworks, and here's what he has to say on the topic: http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=421
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on “Benchmarking Tornado vs. Twisted Web vs. Tornado on Twisted vs. Unicorn”Submitted Patterns of Intellectual Bullies (2008) as a story · 2 points
HN discussiona) Starting with tutorials is a logical first step, however they may be some bad advice in there. Writing some simple applications or pages to accomplish stuff is good to get a handle on the breadth of built-in functionality. Please also note that PHP 5 has much better OO functionality than PHP 4. PHP 4 is end-of-lifed, however CodeIgniter is still compatible with PHP 4, thus limiting it in some respects. I wouldn't…
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on “Ask HN: How do I go about PHP?”Submitted Stages Of The Crash: 1-3 Have Happened, Wait For 4-11 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Estimation Methodology: 2 Workers, 1 Day Per Controller Method as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Preferring Spaces Over Tabs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lazyweb Request: Why would PHP be faster than HTML? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP Frameworks Benchmarks as a story · 1 points
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