Ask HN: Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language?

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Last I heard a book was in the works. I'm not yet sure if it's surfaced yet, but these posts make for a good few hours' reading. They're great.

The secondary suggestion here is that finding a forum that will appreciate the posts and give feedback - note the upvotes and sheer quantity of gold - can be incredibly encouraging. This format also benefits from the fact that there are so many posts on a daily basis all the readers have plenty to keep busy with while they wait, so each writer can establish a lazy pace of writing and submitting that isn't pressured or hectic.

As for continued inspiration, https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport features some great technical writing. Sort by top/week or top/month to find quality examples and the latest top authors (top/all is also awesome, but changes there are months apart) - just try not to drown in the firehose of cringe-inducing idiocy reporting! xD

The idea here would be that the subreddit's sentiment is grokked, inspiration happens, and a new writer appears :D

(Stop by Reddit's TOS and overview, and do NOT skip installing Reddit Enhancement Suite if you decide you like this particular site.)

Wherever the content ends up - a subreddit like TFTS, another messageboard or forum, or a blog - definitely please do link it. :D

The Archive.org crawl is way too old to be of any use. And the Common Crawl corpus is only marginally bigger than what I crawl myself. There are currently just over a billion pages in my search-index and I can recrawl those about every 45 days. Crawling right now at about 650 URLs/s and 200mbit/s. Only about 60% of URLs crawled end up in the index. The rest are errors, timeouts, redirections, etc.

I have been thinking about adding an API. Rate-limiting is a must as you have correctly said. I'm already in a constant fight against SEOs who try to scrape the search-results and who apparently don't see anything wrong in making 10+ queries/second.

The API would definitly not be a free-for-all, but sort of like "send me an email and describe what you want to do with it, and if I like it I'll give you an API-key".Together with a primer on what not to do of course. :) If people do more than a certain amount of queries/month, then it would also have to be paid.

I love making these, because they can be edited and iterated directly from the terminal prompt, and you can just paste them from the clipboard to see if you like them and want to keep them.

For example, the URL this oneliner spits out is actually real. The technique works almost nowhere now thanks to HTTPS (it's one of my poorest oneliners), but it's hilarious to show people who don't know about networking.

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