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a.blog.about.code is a personal blog at ablogaboutcode.com about programming and web. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “The & Operator in Ruby”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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26mentions?
6HN people?
2011–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 15 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for explanations of Ruby's GIL during I/O and for language design posts, including Python blocks and Ruby ports of JavaScript promises.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. The & Operator in Ruby
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-04
  2. Clarifying The Ruby GIL
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-06
  3. Understanding the Law of Demeter
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. It's been a while, but I thought that MRI basically slept during IO and released the GIL so that other threads could do work. In that case, you'd still be handling more requests while the IO was performed. I could be wrong. This kind of thing: http://ablogaboutcode.com/2012/02/06/the-ruby-global-interpr...

    Comment linking /2012/02/06/the-ruby-global-interpreter-lock

    on “Why we switched from Python to Go”
  2. Submitted ActiveRecord 3.1 - Mass-Assignment Roles as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  3. pizza234 · 2014-09-25Recommends
    The GIL doesn't always kick in! Here's a nice post with a couple of examples: http://ablogaboutcode.com/2012/02/06/the-ruby-global-interpr...

    Comment linking /2012/02/06/the-ruby-global-interpreter-lock/

    on “From Ruby to Go: a rewrite for the future”
  4. Submitted Avoiding Nested Callbacks in JavaScript as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  5. > Promises/A has been ported to Ruby, with basically the same API… This is, to me, the core of the problem. > The Promises/A spec from CommonJS defines Promise.then as taking three (optional) callbacks: fulfilledHandler, errorHandler, and progressHandler. The code above is passing two of them at once. Shoehorning things from different realms (e.g desperately trying to write JS in Ruby or vice-versa) is not a good id…

    Comment linking /2012/01/04/the-ampersand-operator-in-ruby/

    on “Why Python doesn't need blocks”
  6. Submitted Rails - Respect the Active Record as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted After_create bug in Rails 3 as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted (Ruby/Rails) Benchmark Your Bundle as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted A Simple Rails Boot Time Improvement as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How Javascript Loading Works – DOMContentLoaded and OnLoad as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Thoughts on the Facebook deploy and push process as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Overwriting Console Output in Ruby as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Clarifying The Ruby GIL as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Courteous Meta-Programming in Ruby as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Recap and Thoughts on Facebook Deploy/Push Process as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Proper Git Commit Messages and an Elegant Git History as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Understanding The Law of Demeter in Ruby as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Understanding the Law of Demeter as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted The & Operator in Ruby as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Object Oriented Ruby and Rails in the Complex World of Gems as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Using Rails Observers to write Faster Tests and Simpler Models as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Dynamic Rescue Clause in Ruby as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted New Version of Sham Ruby Gem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted A Faster YARD Documentation Server with Guard-Yard as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Spork, RSpec, Sham and Caching Classes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Spork Testing Tip - Caching Classes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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