Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #25209

S

Sean Gillies

Personal blog · sgillies.netprogrammingdata

Sean Gillies's personal blog at sgillies.net covers programming and data. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.

Visit the blog
3mentions?
3HN people?
2008–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Sean Gillies's writing on Python decorators and on decorating Python GIS code. One commenter points to these posts as background for understanding decorators.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Sean Gillies Blog

What Hacker News says?

  1. mk · 2008-12-31Recommends
    The article that this article is responding to is useful in understanding as well. http://sgillies.net/blog/858/how-to-decorate-python-gis-code... This one as well. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=240845

    Comment linking /blog/858/how-to-decorate-python-gis-code/

    on “Python Decorators: What they are underneath”
  2. Submitted Leaving the GDAL Project Steering Commitee as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Bootstrapping a Python project as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

Search all of HN for sgillies.net