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Terry Chay
Personal blog · terrychay.com/articleprogrammingpolitics
Terry Chay writes The Woodwork, a personal blog at terrychay.com about programming and politics. Since 2007, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Terry Chay's blog for a joke post about Ted Dziuba and for quantitative analysis of PHP usage and CPU cost at Facebook, which one commenter found more interesting than the linked post.
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.
You tell that other boy, not to touch the woodwork
What Hacker News says?
I'd defend you Ted, but I'm too busy laughing. http://terrychay.com/blog/article/ycombinator-xobni-party.sh...
Comment linking /blog/article/ycombinator-xobni-party.shtml
on “Q&A: Foul-Mouthed Blogger Ted Dziuba Tells Why Most Startups Fail ”Submitted Faster PHP fo shizzle as a story · 41 points
HN discussionYup, I tend to agree. Via that post I ended up on a post by Terry Chay with some much more interesting quantitive analysis of PHP usage at Facebook: http://terrychay.com/article/hiphop-for-faster-php.shtml/4 One of the things that really surprised me was the observation that PHP has a much higher CPU utilization for comparable operations than other higher level languages.
Comment linking /article/hiphop-for-faster-php.shtml/4
on “What are the crawling horrors of PHP?”Submitted The Uber-truth about the slavery economy as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Ruby the dog and PHP the dogfood? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1500 Lines of Code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted It’s hard for a programmer to give good advice on what language to learn... as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s something very few people know about PHP? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted About gerrymandering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Translation from PR-Speak to English of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings’s E-Mail as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MacPorts vs. HomeBrew (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being Popular – The Woodwork as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TechCrunch dreams as a story · 1 points
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