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Adam Hawkins
Personal blog · hawkins.io · on HN as ahawkinsprogrammingcareer
Adam Hawkins writes Software Kaizen, a personal blog at hawkins.io about programming and career. Since 2013, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “The Ruby Community: The Next Version”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Adam Hawkins' personal blog on software development. Commenters connect its posts on software popularity and dependency quality to his earlier essays on Ruby and on open source libraries, and discuss JavaScript frameworks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A newsletter about finding software delivery excellence. Launched 3 years ago.
Most-linked posts?
- The Ruby Community: The Next Version3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-05-18
- Excited About D2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-08
- Rediscovering the Joy of Design2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-03
- Fragmentation in the Ruby Community2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-15
- On Ruby2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-03
What Hacker News says?
> if you want to run your code in a browser, there's no alternative. ^^^^ YES. Although: 1. there was Java in the browser until recently when the Government said not to use it. Eh, it was dead anyway (in the browser at least- very few new projects using it). 2. there are those things called Flash/Flex/Air/etc. that Jobs killed when Apple wouldn't support them- they still live too all over the place though. 3. HTML 5…
Comment linking /2013/07/we-are-pioneers/
on “Javascript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy”Submitted We Are Pioneers: the Journey to Ember.js as a story · 45 points
HN discussionI humbly submit my own work: http://hawkins.io/2014/01/rediscovering-the-joy-of-design/
Comment linking /2014/01/rediscovering-the-joy-of-design/
on “Rails – The Missing Parts”Submitted Using Ember.js and Stripe Checkout as a story · 25 points
HN discussionThis article feels like a follow up on "On Ruby"[1] and related to "It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty"[2]. The common theme I find in all three is the quality and health of a dependency. I agree with OP that stars and latest commit are not clear indicators of quality. I think more useful indicators are tests, documentations and pull requests. * Tests. These are things you can actually run to se…
Comment linking /2015/03/on-ruby/
on “On software popularity”Submitted The Ruby Community: The Next Version as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Excited About D as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Ruby as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ember and Stripe with Custom Forms, Part 2 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ruby Community: The Next Version as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advanced Caching in Rails: Revised as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Development in 3 Principles and 4 Metrics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ruby Community: The Next Version as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fragmentation in the Ruby Community as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fragmentation in the Ruby Community as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rediscovering the Joy of Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Excited about D lang as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advanced Caching in Rails: Revised as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DS.FixtureAdapter Considered Harmful as a story · 1 points
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