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rjbs forgot what he was saying
Personal blog · rjbs.manxome.org/rubricprogrammingculture
rjbs forgot what he was saying is a personal blog at rjbs.manxome.org about programming and culture. Since 2009, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “The Slack IRC gateway drops your messages”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link rjbs's posts as support for the point that mutable objects invite bugs, so immutability matters in general. The linked posts cover mutability and immutability in date and time code.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
blathering blatherskite
Most-linked posts?
- The Slack IRC gateway drops your messages2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-24
What Hacker News says?
Mutability invites bugs, so immutability is important in the general case, not in special situations. https://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/1929 https://blog.plover.com/prog/perl/DateTime-Moonpig.html
Comment linking /rubric/entry/1929
on “Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS”Submitted In Soviet Minecraft, server op you as a story · 196 points
HN discussionPossibly this if it still happens: https://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2110
Comment linking /rubric/entry/2110
on “Slack client for the terminal”Submitted I closed a lot of browser tabs as a story · 156 points
HN discussion>>That you can build an OO system comparable to what other languages have built-in My explicit point was that it is better [edit: which was an answer to your question about value from flexibility, compared to the cognitive cost], don't do straw man attacks please. ( Are you trolling?) Edit: Thanks for the downvote. :-) Edit 2: As answer to the next long, long comment with parts going all over: Of course complexity h…
Comment linking /talks/moose/Moose.pdf
on “Perl - the Detroit of scripting languages”Submitted Of abusive behavior in programming communities as a story · 156 points
HN discussionThese are only the slides, and while it's nice to have them all together, slides to talks generally provide very little value unless they're exceptionally† well made. From flipping through a random selection of them, i can tell they're just average examples of the species, good for when someone is talking over them, but fairly useless taken on their own. Will this repository be amended with links to the videos to ma…
Comment linking /talks/moose/
on “CppCon2014 Presentations”Submitted Github's fork queue is dangerous as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moose is Perl: A Guide to the New Revolution as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perl has built-in temp files as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yahoo breaks all mailing lists as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Promoting little gifts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will your perl remain supported -- and what does that mean? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Slack IRC gateway drops your messages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted That code might be good enough for production... as a story · 2 points
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