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Scripting News Annex
Personal blog · scripting.wordpress.comwebwriting
Scripting News Annex is a personal blog at scripting.wordpress.com about web and writing. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dave Winer's Scripting News Annex for its December 2006 post containing Douglas Crockford's 'round wheel' quote about JSON and reinventing the wheel, and for its discussion of JSON history.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Essays and comments on the issues of the day
Most-linked posts?
- /2006/12/20/scripting-news-for-12202006/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-24
What Hacker News says?
When asked why he had invented JSON when XML already existed, Douglas Crockford said: The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one. https://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/scripting-news-fo...
Comment linking /2006/12/20/scripting-news-for-12202006/
on “uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust”This article had a footnote linking to a snide Douglas Crockford retort to a blog post that was dismissive of JSON. The other discussion comments on that page are a fascinating history of the arguments for and against, through the lens of 2006. https://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/scripting-news-fo...
Comment linking /2006/12/20/scripting-news-for-12202006/
on “The rise and rise of JSON (2017)”"The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one." Douglas Crockford Got to ctrl-f to find it in the comments, but it's from here: http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/scripting-news-for...
Comment linking /2006/12/20/scripting-news-for-12202006/
on “Never Reinventing the Wheel Is Anticompetitive”'... they dont pay a cent to do this. They will be selected to participate based on merit alone. ...' But the companies/people demonstrating don't have to pay. Dave Winer is behind this and had a swipe at the companies asking for cash to slot in talks. [0] But he also had another idea. It's called an 'Un-Conference' [1] and goes something like this ... 'The sum of the expertise of the people in the audience is great…
Comment linking /2006/03/05/what-is-an-unconference/
on “TechCrunch20 - New TechCrunch Event - Demo your startup”