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The Management Blog
Company blog · beebole.com/blog · on HN as tchvilprogrammingproductivity
The Management Blog is the company blog at beebole.com, writing about programming and productivity. Since 2008, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Open Source JavaScript Template Engine for HTML”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-17, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Open Source JavaScript Template Engine for HTML13 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2008-08-05
- The true cost of employees: The 101 guide for hiring employers5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-11-30
What Hacker News says?
might be confusing, also called "pure" http://beebole.com/pure/
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on “Pure: a set of small, responsive CSS modules”Submitted Convert HTML to PDF, an OpenSource Alternative Based on Webkit as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThe Google docs team stopped to use contentEditable and developed instead a new "editing surface and layout engine" in Javascript. http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/05/whats-different-about... I don't have an iPad(yet), but I tried a very basic page you can get at http://beebole.com/brol/contentEditable.html Tap the blue screen and start to type. On an android phone it works ok.
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on “Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser”Submitted Install: Ubuntu 8.04 , Erlang, Mochiweb and Nginx as a story · 14 points
HN discussion"spending another $10K to make them even 10% more productive is a bargain." $200K is not a good benchmark for what companies spend. Median salary in the US is about $50K [1] Average overhead per/employee is 18-26% [2] So a $10K spend for 10% increase in productivity on someone earning about $60K ... is not a bargain. But there's a problem with this, because SaaS can be 1) Individual productivity 2) Operational produ…
Comment linking /blog/how-to-calculate-the-real-cost-of-an-employee/
on “Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)”Submitted How to quickly test the performance and scalability of your web applications with Tsung as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSounds a bit like the pure js library but with jquery. http://beebole.com/pure/
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on “Show HN: My new JavaScript MVC framework”Submitted The Dos, Don’ts, and Legalities of Employee Monitoring: The 101 FAQ as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI found this helpful rule of thumb to estimate the cost of benefits: https://beebole.com/blog/how-to-calculate-the-real-cost-of-a... >...the real salary of an employee ends up “being 18% to 26% more than a worker’s base salary.
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on “Feds: IBM did discriminate against older workers in making layoffs”Submitted How we built a Progressive Web App for Android and iOS: tutorial, live example as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBackbone itself doesn't have template support, but there are loads of libraries for that. There is a list in this performance rundown: http://jsperf.com/dom-vs-innerhtml-based-templating/160 Another path is "anti templates" like http://beebole.com/pure/ or https://github.com/hij1nx/weld
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on “Hello Backbone.js - A step-by-step tutorial”Submitted JavaScript templates engine PURE goes 2.0 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAccording to this source [0] the factor is closer to 1.25x - 1.4x or 1.18x - 1.26x depending on which source you listen to. [0] https://beebole.com/blog/how-to-calculate-the-real-cost-of-a...
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on “Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker”Submitted Web Application on Erlang: So Far, So Good, as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNot to be confused with Pure, the JS templating library http://beebole.com/pure/
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on “Purecss.io – A set of small, responsive CSS modules by Yahoo”Submitted Erlang Tutorials For Web Applications as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHiring cheap human labor in the US costs (for minimum wage) $36 to $40k per year. So according to [1] spot costs 1 year of a decent-wage employee or 2 years of a minimum wage employee. And of course that's disregarding that spot will happily pull nighttime duty, work on weekends, Christmas, and will happily walk into a chemical plant risking his life for you ... [1] https://beebole.com/blog/how-to-calculate-the-real…
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on “Roblox raises $520M at $29.5B valuation”Submitted BeeBole: Why we chose Erlang over Python, Ruby, PHP family for our back-end as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIs anyone using pure.js? That's been one on my radar since they use pure HTML templates with JSON models. I don't think it does data binding to update the template automatically after the first render if the model changes, but apart from that, it seems preferable to using custom templates like jQuery or Mustache etc. http://beebole.com/pure/ That having been said, I haven't started using it yet. I'm open to other vi…
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on “How Rails Developers do Ajax in 2011”Submitted Generate HTML from a JSON Without any Template but HTML and Javascript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionreminds me of http://beebole.com/pure/
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on “Show HN: Simulacra.js – one-way data binding for web applications”Submitted Open Source JavaScript Template Engine for HTML as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor anything slightly more involved I really like Pure as a javascript template engine, http://beebole.com/pure/ . Especially when working with something like json data generated elsewhere.
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on “Advanced JavaScript Techniques”Submitted The true cost of employees: The 101 guide for hiring employers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFWIW, GWT's UiBinder takes a similar, absolutely-no-logic approach to templates. No iteration even: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideUiBinde... Takes awhile to get used to, but it's nice to have all your logic in the controller, once you're used to it. Plus being only-static HTML, ui.xml files are amenable to code-generation, e.g. making interfaces for the views (which ends up similar to your con…
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on “Mustache, ERB and the future of templating”Submitted Pure: Simple and ultra-fast templating tool to generate HTML from JSON as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is valid for server side templating. In the browser you will not render thousand times a template. And the tens milliseconds you will save if you pre-compile the template is irrelevant compared to the hundreds milliseconds of network latency and page & js load time. I wrote http://beebole.com/pure another template engine. With the version-2 we dropped the pre-compilation. The small performance gain wasn't worth…
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on “Mustache 2.0 and the Future of Mustache.js”Submitted Pure Javascript templates as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat is the benefit of this style of templating engine compared to for example pure ( http://beebole.com/pure/ ) where you write your html in html, keeping it free from logic and keeping it in a way anyone with html skills can understand?
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on “jade: a node.js template engine”Submitted A video use case of Google Chart Tools in business applications as a story · 2 points
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