THE VIDEO SHELF · programming parody songs
You Give REST a Bad Name
Dylan Beattie's parody of 'You Give Love a Bad Name' about hypermedia APIs and REST, performed with his band at developer conferences.
Why HN readers recommended it
Shared as developer humor, with commenters insisting any Dylan Beattie mention must come with this song.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Dylan Beattie
- Topic
- programming parody songs
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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 - [VIDEO] We're Gonna Build a Framework - [LINK] Enterprise Waterfall - [LINK]
thunderbong on Hacker News · 2021-01
In Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?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) [VIDEO]
scrollaway on Hacker News · 2023-01
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