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Simon Holywell
Personal blog · simonholywell.com/postprogrammingweb
Simon Holywell's personal blog at simonholywell.com covers programming and web. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Simultaneously benchmark many URLs with ApacheBench and GNU parallel (2015)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Simon Holywell's SQL style guide post to explain the guide's reasoning, which it gives for its rules rather than stating them without justification. Comments only cite it.
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.
A developer in Brisbane, Australia with a passion for web application development and mountain bikes.
Most-linked posts?
- Simultaneously benchmark many URLs with ApacheBench and GNU parallel (2015)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-07-01
What Hacker News says?
>Most styleguides really do benefit from rationales. Just stating something ex cathedra sounds rather patronizing. The author kind of explained their justification in their blog post[1]: >It beggars belief how many readers claim to have read the guide and yet I still get messages asking for justifications. At the very top, the introductory paragraph clearly states that Celko’s book is the place to find in-depth disc…
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