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You Give REST a Bad Name

Dylan Beattie
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2 HN users recommended this music video2 months2020–2025 score 2.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Shared as developer humor, with commenters insisting any Dylan Beattie mention must come with this song.

Dylan Beattie's parody of 'You Give Love a Bad Name' about hypermedia APIs and REST, performed with his band at developer conferences.

“You Give REST a Bad Name" is also excellent.” (HN, 2023)

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@thunderbong Jan 2021 Strongly recommends
on HN thread Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
Man, those Dylan Beattie's videos are out of this world!! I laughed way too hard on a number of them - You give REST a bad name - [this video] We're Gonna Build a Framework - [link] Enterprise Waterfall - [link]
@scrollaway Jan 2023 Recommends
on HN thread Tail Call Optimization: The Musical
I want to highlight Dylan Beattie while we're posting our favorites. [link] His song DMCA is my little favourite, but "You Give REST a Bad Name" is also excellent. And he does perform at conferences! (Mostly .NET ones) [this video]
Dylan Beattie's parody song about REST, performed at conferences.

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@082349872349872 Sep 2020 Makes a joke
on HN thread Tell HN: Happy Programmers' Day to all devs in HN
Good point. In the spirit of [link] I propose we add "european programmer's day", celebrated on 5.12 (Dag Sinterklaasje)? Let's all meet here again. I'll bring a bottle or two of Pastis 512 (unfortunately adjusted with magic marker instead of a hex editor) and we can blast Dylan Beattie and the Linebreakers: [this video]
@082349872349872 Aug 2024 Makes a joke
on HN thread Why does everyone hate Haskell, jazz, and pure math?
Sometimes I wonder if my late-in-life recent appreciation for maths* be just a symptom of having failed to die {in a bizarre gardening accident, driving off Skyline Blvd} while my body could still handle following the childish dream of hex, bugs, and rock&roll. * [link] "Haskell? I was into those guys before they were cool. Miranda, man, that even had diagonal comprehensions... Have you heard of Hope? Kiff this, mec..." Lagniappe: [this video]

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