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You Give REST a Bad Name

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

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

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5 comments from Hacker News

@thunderbong2021-01 · in “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

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@scrollaway2023-01 · in “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

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@swyx2025-01 · in “Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022)”

any dylan beattie post must be accompanied with a recommendation for his hit single, You Give REST a Bad Name ▶ this video

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@0823498723498722024-08 · in “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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@0823498723498722020-09 · in “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

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