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Re:Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server by arcticbull on Friday February 26, 2021 @10:13PM (#26282271)
I absolutely love reading Justine's code. It comes up from time to time here and it just makes me happy. It reminds me of the passage from "Programming Sucks" by Still Drinking [1]

  Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It’s a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world.

  This file is Good Code. It has sensible and consistent names for functions and variables. It’s concise. It doesn’t do anything obviously stupid. It has never had to live in the wild, or answer to a sales team. It does exactly one, mundane, specific thing, and it does it well. It was written by a single person, and never touched by another. It reads like poetry written by someone over thirty.
Her work is always just a little bit trippy in a good way haha.

[1] http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

Re:Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server by erikpukinskis on Saturday February 27, 2021 @11:25AM (#26285816)
This is too real. Except at this point, after 25 years I have probably ten of these.
Re:Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server by arcticbull on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:37PM (#26287497)
I've been thinking of putting together github repo which is just an index out to people's snowflakes. If I do, I'll reach out.
Re:Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server by christophilus on Saturday February 27, 2021 @07:24PM (#26289505)
Do it. I’d enjoy perusing it.
Re:Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server by themantri on Sunday March 07, 2021 @10:05AM (#26376336)
Yes, please.