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tommorris.org
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tommorris.org is a personal blog at tommorris.org about programming and culture. Since 2007, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tom Morris's posts for his arguments against open-plan offices, against app-download prompts, and on same-sex marriage and the Mozilla CEO appointment. One commenter called one post 'another winner'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-02-04
- Open plan offices are basically terrible in every way3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-02-27
- Introducing awfulness.js3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-10-03
- Hart contracts, not smart contracts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-06
- /posts/25502 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-24
- Programmers don't necessarily want to be entrepreneurs 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-31
- How many software developers would it take to change a lightbulb?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-08
What Hacker News says?
Because switching to a system where everybody has to get unmarried in order to satisfy the ideological preferences of people who want to get the government out of the marriage business is something that's going to be a really hard sell to all the existing straight married people. I wrote a long post about it a while back: https://tommorris.org/posts/2555
Comment linking /posts/2555
on “Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules”Submitted No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app as a story · 799 points
HN discussionIntroducing: awfulness.js http://tommorris.org/posts/2547
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on “The next version of DuckDuckGo”Submitted Testing the Firefox Alternatives as a story · 85 points
HN discussionI guess 2 years is long enough for most people to have forgotten the brief storm about his homophobic political activities. I wonder if this appointment would have been made 18 months ago when that was still fresh in people's minds. I can't help thinking that it doesn't really fit with the image Mozilla tries to present of themselves. http://tommorris.org/posts/2550
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on “Brendan Eich becomes Mozilla CEO”Submitted Scala for Hackers as a story · 63 points
HN discussionAlso, doctors who specialise in hearing loss (given the volume we pump into our ears to block out the noise in open plan offices), as well as pharmaceutical companies making any drugs that deal with increases in stress (another fun side-effect of open plan nonsense). See https://tommorris.org/posts/9403
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on “Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques”Submitted Ruby 1.9 doesn't implement ISO 8601 properly as a story · 47 points
HN discussionThat's been my experience. Bugs reported and then either ignored or closed as duplicates of ancient bugs. See https://tommorris.org/posts/9491 (not my post, but similar experience).
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on “3D engine made of MS Excel formulae”Submitted Why I'm turning JavaScript off by default as a story · 45 points
HN discussionYour "simple solution" would require the invalidation of all straight people's marriages. Politically, that's about as toxic as proudly saying you are going to be building a pre-school on top of a nuclear waste dump. I wrote a long rant about this a while back: http://tommorris.org/posts/2555
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on “OkCupid/IAC Employees Donated Thousands to Anti-Gay Marriage Politicians”Submitted Google Docs vs manual typewriter as a story · 29 points
HN discussionFollowing your breadcrumbs. I found another winner: https://tommorris.org/posts/8070 Thanks for this.
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on “API”Submitted 50 Lies Programmers Believe as a story · 24 points
HN discussion> I'm not sure why some people find open office plans so unpleasant. Funnily enough, I recently outlined the reasons here (applicable specifically to those with hearing loss as well as everybody else), with reference to a whole range of scientific studies. https://tommorris.org/posts/9403
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on “Is Blind Hiring the Best Hiring?”Submitted Open plan offices are basically terrible in every way as a story · 23 points
HN discussionOn a related note: "No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app": http://tommorris.org/posts/8070
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on “Unraveling HTML5 vs. Native”Submitted Hacking isn't always helping as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSilence is not a non-contribution. You're not getting it, but then, you already told us you don't wish to spend even a second learning more about this issue, so I guess this won't help you either: http://tommorris.org/posts/8084
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on “What's with the silence?”Submitted Open plan offices are basically terrible in every way (2015) as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI think this is a good thing - searching for the n-word on Github reveals a lot of static swear-word lists for filters (which are OK) [1] but also lots of rather strange choices for tests (what's up with weboob's test.py?). We as a community of open source developers have to stop and think about how the outside world perceives us. There's already lots and lots of negative flak in regards to sexism about Silicon Vall…
Comment linking /posts/8053
on “Ethical Code – Let's Clean Up GitHub”Submitted Geeks and privilege as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThe site tells me nothing about the app. "Share and meet new friends", okay well who are they and how does it match me to people? Can I chat with people I already know? How does this differ to all the other chat apps already out there? Another candidate for "No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app" http://tommorris.org/posts/8070
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on “Say Hello on Minus Chat, share and meet new friends.”Submitted An alphabet of shuttered Google services as a story · 15 points
HN discussionWonder if things like this might cause an issue: http://tommorris.org/posts/2550 Mozilla has always stood for freedom of knowledge, and by extension human rights (so people can access that knowledge). I don't know what Brendan's political beliefs currently are, but I hope he doesn't still wish to restrict the human rights of certain people based on their sexual orientation. Not trying to make any assumption and wish…
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on “Brandon Eich new CEO of Mozilla”Submitted No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app (2013) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionUnlikely, as the law is vague and interpreted, this cannot be captured in code. https://tommorris.org/posts/2020/hart-contracts-not-smart-co...
Comment linking /posts/2020/hart-contracts-not-smart-contracts/
on “The future of contracts is code”Submitted That's not what the law says: the coronavirus regulations (United Kingdom) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSimilar post that was on the front page recently: "No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app" http://tommorris.org/posts/8070 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5162841 ) I agree, while the app might provide a better experience for Browsing the site in question is does not provide the information that I am currently seeking. Forums often do the "Download our mobile app" (I assume that they are all running…
Comment linking /posts/8070
on “Redirection, call a link a link”Submitted Why I'm turning JavaScript off by default as a story · 7 points
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