It's time for the Hacker News Bonus Round! It's that time of day where we all get the stand around and laugh at internets! Now with more characters because Mastodon!

> I know the point of this article is to demonstrate how to solve a problem but the premise is a bad one and must not be confused with sound software architecture at all. In fact it's slightly painful reading it and I really wish people would stop writing articles like this.

This means I'm doing it correctly. Like really. I'm presenting a bad idea. I'm explaining why I did it. If you walk into my blog expecting that everything be crystalline towers of absolute perfection, you are in error. Sometimes I have bad ideas and explain why they are bad. If you don't like that, not commenting is free.

> What we have here is a Rube Goldberg machine, not a cleanly solved engineering problem.

YES AND IT IS GLORIOUS! DONT YOU SEE? IT'S PERFECTLY STUPID! The best kinds of hacks are the ones that look ludicrous but are actually somewhat fine in practice.

> People have been using linked libraries to re-use code across languages since forever, it's fine.

People have been bloodletting since forever but that doesn't mean it's fine. Losing your blood juice tends to kill you unless you're careful.

> Give us a real use case not manufacture a problem for it.

Pay me then. My blog is an effort in giving people bad ideas and understanding they they work, down to the philosophy level.

> Is the definition of "how do I get promoted in a company where I don't care if it survives the next five years", not "a cleanly solved engineering problem".

I thought you people liked bad, unviable ideas. That's half of what you internets upvote. Why should you treat this any different? Is it because I have my website CSS as queer-coded and present myself as nonbinary? Subconscious bias much?

> What's more interesting is if you use same method for app plugins, now you can compile anything in WASM and as long as it have right hooks it can be used in your app as a plugin

This person gets it! This is the idea I'm trying to meme into people's subconsciouses! My evil witch powers work again! My mission of being a viral force of good continues to proceed! Trust the plan!

> I can only imagine what that person's house is like, everything plugged into a string of four-way extensions with adaptors and transformers and converters in some massive herniated tangle that would make any firefighter gasp and run for the biggest dry powder extinguisher ever manufactured.

Oh man wait until this internet sees my homelab. It's got like 7 tower computers in one room with a 15 amp breaker. I've had to balance the hardware choices with that in mind. I'd love to fill out each machine with a 5950x or something but oh god that would not work with my breaker. I made a hard rule against daisy-chaining power strips though. I've not managed to break that yet.

> This. I'd rather have to defend all my ideas than have the bad ones blindly promoted.

Tell me you're a white cis male without telling me you're a white cis male.

> I feel bad that I can't get over the fact that a Mastodon message is called a "toot".

It's because HBomberGuy nerd sniped Gargamel at the right time. They are since trying to backtrack on that, but mastodon posts will always be toots to me and you can't take that from me. I know enough about linguistics to know how language evolution works. By calling a thing a thing, I can subconsciously influence your perception of that word! I mean the alternative is calling it a "tweet" and making one of Elon Musk's trademarks less useful. Choose your pain I guess lol.

> As sad as Slack changing it’s iconic first logo

Yeah it looks like a cocktothorpe or a duckalingus circle now.

> Do you think the same people who call a question an “ask” have any problems calling a published thing a “publish”?

Sure, why not?

> Okay, can you please give me a hint as to where that is? As googling "trump fart" just leads to a lot of terrible Youtube videos.

WHAT. HOW IS THIS AN ACTUAL HACKER NEWS COMMENT. WHAT.

> The same glue that IBM and Unisys mainframes and micros have been enjoying for decades, .NET since 2002, among other examples.

I don't know why this was downvoted on Hacker News, but this is actually completely correct! This is what mainframes do! Customer code is compiled to some intermediate byte code and customers never actually compiler their code for the native CPU architecture of the mainframe. This sounds insane, but it also lets the mainframe manufacturer make radical CPU architecture changes while at the same time offering 100% compatibility so that you could hook up the new mainframe to the old one and gradually move things over WHILE THEY ARE RUNNING. Mainframes are cool shit and it's sad that they are dying out.

Then again, it was probably downvoted because it was correct.