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Ted Dziuba
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Ted Dziuba writes widgets and shit, a personal blog at widgetsandshit.com about programming, systems and career. Since 2013, 62 different Hacker News readers have linked it 77 times, most often “Taco Bell Programming”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Taco Bell Programming32 people · 37 mentions · first linked 2014-02-24
- I'm Going to Scale My Foot Up Your Ass (2008)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-07-27
- Node.js Is Cancer (2011)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-04-16
- Taco Bell Programming (2010)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-08-13
- Who Needs Process? (2012)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-05
- Devops Is a Poorly Executed Scam (2011)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-12-05
- /teddziuba/2010/05/the-future-of-apples-curated-computing.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-26
What Hacker News says?
Same experience here. As a small organization, the quotes we got from cloud providers have always been prohibitively expensive compared to running things locally, even when we accounted for geographical redundancy, generous labor costs, etc. Plus, we get to keep know how and avoid lock-in, which are extremely important things in the long term. Besides, running things locally can be refreshingly simple if you are jus…
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on “Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret”Submitted I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die (2010) as a story · 51 points
HN discussionAgree, but you have to be willing to invest your time and effort into a task when you look for it that way. Sometimes you can be better off doing things the simple aka duct tape way, when it just works. Anyone who's not read tacobell programming should take the 2 minutes to do so now because it underlines my point very good. http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra... Incase my point is not clear…
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on “Look for the duct tape”Submitted Taco Bell Programming as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSpreadsheets are awesome , and I think that another thing people are dismissing is grep, awk and friends. I get it that both spreadsheets and unix tools might not be trendy, but they fulfill the Taco Bell Programming idea [1]; they provide simple, scalable, and efficient solutions. Summing data from column B for each unique value in column A would be as easy as `awk -F ',' '{a[$1] += $2} END{for (i in a) print i, a[…
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on “I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)”Submitted Taco Bell Programming as a story · 21 points
HN discussion>> http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra... > Here's a concrete example: suppose you have millions of web pages that you want to download and save to disk for later processing. How do you do it? The cool-kids answer is to write a distributed crawler in Clojure and run it on EC2, handing out jobs with a message queue like SQS or ZeroMQ. > The Taco Bell answer? xargs and wget. In the rare case t…
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on “How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency”Submitted Taco Bell Programming (2010) as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThey've probably subscribed to Taco Bell Programming. http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra...
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on “How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency”Submitted Devops Is a Poorly Executed Scam (2011) as a story · 18 points
HN discussionUnicorn. Somewhat off topic, and speaking of unicorns: http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2011/07/the-craigslist-r...
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on “Marketing is scary for a solo developer”Submitted (2010) Taco Bell Programming as a story · 17 points
HN discussionFor many, the incentive from the gig is a) resume enrichment by way of buzzword addition b) huge budget grants and allocation, purportedly for lofty goals while management is really unaware of real technology needs/options Much has been talked about this already; sharing them again! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14401399 [2] https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html [3] http://widgetsands…
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on “Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Cluster (2014)”Submitted Node.js Is Cancer (2011) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHonorary mention of Taco Bell Programming. (fits this genre). http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra... Someone ought to write - Zen and the art of Unix tools usage.
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on “Why Learn Awk? (2016)”Submitted Who Needs Process? (2012) as a story · 6 points
HN discussion“Node makes it impossible to write blocking code” reminds me of this classic and hilarious piece by Ted Dziuba: http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2011/10/node-js-is-cance...
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on “Ruby 3.4.0”Submitted Taco Bell Programming as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI ran across a great quote that sums up the situation. ...functionality is an asset, but code is a liability. http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra... Don't know if the OP came up with it himself, but he is now a candidate for the California State Senate.
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on “Our Software Dependency Problem”Submitted Taco Bell Programming as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI read similar on HN sometime back, this is call Taco Bell Programming - http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra...
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on “Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)”Submitted Taco Bell Programming as a story · 5 points
HN discussionthis somewhat reminds me of taco bell programming http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra...
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on “Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records”Submitted Taco Bell Programming as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of the famous Taco Bell Programming post [1]. Simple can surprisingly often be good enough. [1] http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra...
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on “Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes”Submitted Taco Bell Programming (2010) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAs to your question of “ how long already ”, I found a blog post (not mine) from 2000 A.D. that considers “ The Future of Apple's Curated Computing ”: http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/05/the-future-of-ap...
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on “Haskell for Mac”Submitted DevOps Is a Poorly Executed Scam (2011) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI recommend starting w/ Gary Bernhardt's excellent "Tar Pipe" blog post. https://web.archive.org/web/20161227222637/http://blog.extra... From there, move on to using the shell as your IDE. How? First, understand the Unix philosophy. I think Ted Dzubia describes this pretty well in his Taco Bell Programming blog posting: http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra... Great, so now you understand that…
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on “Ask HN: How can I get better at bash?”Submitted Taco Bell Programming (2010) as a story · 4 points
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