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Personal blog · quoderat.megginson.comprogrammingwebculture

Quoderat is a personal blog at quoderat.megginson.com about programming, web and culture. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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2010–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2011

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  1. Reminds me of "The programming language lifecycle"[1] (written in 2006), which essentially implies that the reason programmers continually search for new languages is simply out of a desire to 'distinguish' themselves from their peers, and have little to do with the actual merits of the languages in question. [1] https://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/03/06/programming-langua...

    Comment linking /2006/03/06/programming-languages-of-distinction/

    on “My time with Rails is up”
  2. Submitted RIP Java, 1995-2010 as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  3. Meh: http://quoderat.megginson.com/2007/01/03/all-markup-ends-up-...

    Comment linking /2007/01/03/all-markup-ends-up-looking-like-xml/

    on “a thread”
  4. Submitted REST for the rest of us as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted REST for the Rest of Us as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted What’s really different about “Enterprise” as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The programming language cycle (2006) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Netflix, Philips, and the fragility of APIs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted What’s really different about "Enterprise" as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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