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Aaron Lebo
Personal blog · lebo.io · on HN as aaron-leboprogrammingculture
Aaron Lebo's personal blog at lebo.io covers programming and culture. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The Unix Philosophy and Elixir as an Alternative to Go”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked once in a thread on Elixir exercises, with only a bare link to a post titled around the Unix philosophy and Elixir. The comments say nothing about the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Unix Philosophy and Elixir as an Alternative to Go3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-06-22
- Why Javascript Has Become Steve Yegge's Next Big Language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-03
What Hacker News says?
Elixir, in my experience, is a much more productive and powerful language. If you are a one-man-show I'd pick Elixir any day. Here I am pimping my own stuff but I wrote a related article on this: http://lebo.io/2015/06/22/the-unix-philosophy-and-elixir-as-...
Comment linking /2015/06/22/the-unix-philosophy-and-elixir-as-an-alternative-to-go.html
on “Phoenix 1.0”Submitted The Unix Philosophy and Elixir as an Alternative to Go as a story · 305 points
HN discussionhttp://lebo.io/2015/06/22/the-unix-philosophy-and-elixir-as-...
Comment linking /2015/06/22/the-unix-philosophy-and-elixir-as-an-alternative-to-go.html
on “The Little Schemer Exercises in Elixir”Submitted Why Javascript Has Become Steve Yegge's Next Big Language as a story · 45 points
HN discussionI have OCD. It is almost entirely under control now, but it derailed me for a good five years and put me in a depression so deep that I wanted to die. Last week I actually wrote a very personal blog post about it if anyone is interested in understanding the disorder and what it means. It also talks about how I've personally tried to find meaning in life after dealing with it. Kind of navel-gazey. Sometimes my feathe…
Comment linking /2015/03/26/worth-the-fighting-for.html
on “Obsessive Efficiency Disorder”Submitted The Unix Philosophy and Elixir as an Alternative to Go as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHey HN, I've been inspired by Michael Fogelman's Craft [1] and other links around here over the years to learn more about 3d graphics programming. comanche has been my path to learning. It can currently render 30 different maps - 29 of them were reverse engineered by Sebastian Macke [2] from the game Comanche (1992). There's no actual relation to the game, I just remember playing it as a kid and the file format is c…
Comment linking /2018/04/03/a-webgl-renderer.html
on “Show HN: An open source WebGL renderer in 300 lines of JavaScript with 30 maps”Submitted Musings on Depression, David Foster Wallace, and The End of the Tour as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Steve Yegge's Next Big Language Revisited as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bradley Cooper, Ernest Hemingway, and Realistic Optimism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How New Politics in Texas Can Change the World as a story · 1 points
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