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Stefan Scherfke

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Stefan Scherfke's personal blog at stefan.sofa-rockers.org covers programming. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Attrs, Dataclasses and Pydantic”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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6HN people?
2012–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

HN readers cite this post on attrs versus Pydantic performance, including its finding that replacing dateutil.parser.parse with datetime.isoformat made attrs about 7x faster. One commenter uses it to question Pydantic's docs benchmarks.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Attrs, Dataclasses and Pydantic
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic/pull/1568 If I'm reading this issue right the benchmarks in the pydantic docs are misleading Also > The author of this article ( https://stefan.sofa-rockers.org/2020/05/29/attrs-dataclasses... ) poits out that replacing dateutil.parser.parse function with datetime.isoformat increases performance of attrs in 7 times.

    Comment linking /2020/05/29/attrs-dataclasses-pydantic/

    on “I use Attrs instead of Pydantic”
  2. Submitted Packaging Python Inside Your Organization with Gitlab and Conda as a story · 8 points

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  3. Submitted Building a ZeroMQ app with Python as a story · 6 points

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  4. Submitted Attrs, Dataclasses and Pydantic as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted Designing and testing PyZMQ applications part 2 as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted Typed Settings as a story · 1 points

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  7. Submitted Designing and Testing PyZMQ Applications – Part 3 as a story · 1 points

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