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Reinout van Rees

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Reinout van Rees's personal blog at reinout.vanrees.org covers programming and web. Since 2010, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Optimizing Large Django Sites at Mozilla”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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46mentions?
31HN people?
2010–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 21 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Reinout van Rees's weblog, mainly for write-ups and summaries of Django and Python conference talks, and for notes on Django's use at Mozilla.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Optimizing Large Django Sites at Mozilla
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-05-13
  2. Flasky goodness (or why django sucks?) - Kenneth Reitz
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-06-06
  3. Who cares about zope
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. MDN is written in Django: https://github.com/mozilla/kuma . The add-ons site also uses Django. http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2011/06/06/large-mozilla-s... They have around 15 django libraries on GitHub as well https://github.com/mozilla?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=django

    Comment linking /weblog/2011/06/06/large-mozilla-sites.html

    on “Django Awarded MOSS Grant from Mozilla”
  2. Submitted PostgreSQL when it is not your job as a story · 172 points

    HN discussion
  3. I made a summary of Kenneth's talk at http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2012/06/06/flask-django-su... , for some this might be nicer to read/scan than slides. The slides are more complete, though :-)

    Comment linking /weblog/2012/06/06/flask-django-sucks.html

    on “Why Django Sucks”
  4. Submitted Flasky goodness (or why django sucks?) - Kenneth Reitz as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  5. > Back in the day, I remember writing reddit comments and blog posts to explain the relative popularity of Rails over Catalyst. It was usually along the lines of, "people want to be told what to do. given a screw, they would rather bash it in with a hammer than to read about what a screwdriver is." Posts like this reinforce that point: people don't use Rails because they want to use Rails, people use it because they…

    Comment linking /weblog/2011/06/07/zope.html

    on “What the hell is happening to rails?”
  6. Submitted Django Class-based generic views (anti)pattern as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. > Is the Django Book ready to use as it is to learn Django? The Django docs I think are not enough for someone starting out learning their first web framework(they seem to go deep right away and don't provide a structured way of learning). It's pretty outdated by now, so you'll likely spend more time checking the differences (i.e. class based views). Same goes for Practical Django Projects[3]. You're best off lookin…

    Comment linking /weblog/2012/05/23/djangobook-schluss.html

    on “The Django Book is getting updated ”
  8. Submitted Taking up the gauntlet: defense of Django as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Check this list out, Running Python - Django [1][3][4]: -Instagram[0] -Pinterest -Disqus Disqus.com - Disqus serves over 3 billion page views, and more than 500 million unique visitors a month on it's Django stack. As far as we know we are the largest installation out there. -Mozilla[2] addons.mozilla.com and support.mozilla.com 250k+ add-ons, 150 million views per month, 500+ million api hits per day (firefox check…

    Comment linking /weblog/2011/06/06/large-mozilla-sites.html

    on “Pinterest Architecture Update - 18M Visitors, 10x Growth, 12 Employees, 410 TB”
  10. Submitted SOAP is officially dead, long live REST as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. There's some info here: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2010/05/25/django-technica... Question: What are the plans for python 3? We haven’t made any plans for 2017 yet. We’re slowly dropping older releases. Probably python 2.4 sticks around in django 1.3, though. There has been work done on a python 3 port. Apparently the tests already run, though only 60% succeed. He considered 50% already a huge success, so they…

    Comment linking /weblog/2010/05/25/django-technical-design.html

    on “Numpy announces Python 3 support (Scipy news included)”
  12. Submitted Django and mongodb - Daniel Greenfeld and Audrey Roy as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Here's a write-up of the talk from someone who was live blogging from the conference: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2010/05/24/no-sql.html

    Comment linking /weblog/2010/05/24/no-sql.html

    on “Making Django and NoSQL Play Nice”
  14. Submitted Pyramid experiment, (temporarily) no Django as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. There are lots of people that agree with you: http://www.plope.com/Members/chrism/pythonic I preferred what Ian Bicking wrote in response: http://blog.ianbicking.org/unzen-of-unpython.html One thing I like about the Django community is that part of Djangocon specifically features critics who are invited to criticize Django or some aspect of it, for example: "Why Django Sucks and how we can fix it" http://blip.tv/dja…

    Comment linking /weblog/2012/06/06/flask-django-sucks.html

    on “Web2py 2.0 is out”
  16. Submitted Django and the real-time web as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Djangocon.eu keynote - Jacob Kaplan-Moss as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Who cares about zope as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Repos are like children, parenting 101 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Dutch Python meeting: structural pattern matching as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted DjangoCon EU: Getting past Django ORM limitations with Postgres as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Nearly live DjangoCon Europe Notes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Buildout 2.0 is out What to do in case of an error as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted My vagrant setup on OS X as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Building secure Django websites as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Django admin site: access, filtering and restrictin as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Django versus ajax or together with ajax? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Optimizing Large Django Sites at Mozilla as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Not getting github email notifications as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Thoughts on “perfectionists with deadlines” (re. Django) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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