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Alex Marandon

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Alex Marandon's personal blog at alexmarandon.com covers programming and web. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “A practical introduction to MochiWeb”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9mentions?
5HN people?
2011–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Alex Marandon's articles on Python mock gotchas and a MochiWeb tutorial in Erlang. The comments cite them as resources on mocking in unit tests and on Erlang web servers.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A practical introduction to MochiWeb
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-22
  2. Python Mock Gotchas
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. rhizome31 · 2016-01-01
    SEEKING WORK - Toulouse, France. Remote only. - Frontend: JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone - Backend: Python, Django, Pyramid, Tornado, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch - Automated testing - Niche skill: third-party JavaScript, cross-domain widgets - Currently employed but seeking freelance work on the side - Experienced with remote work, good communication skills - Would love to work with Elixir, played a bit with it b…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2016)”
  2. rhizome31 · 2011-07-22

    Submitted A practical introduction to MochiWeb as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  3. rhizome31 · 2012-06-02
    SEEKING WORK - Remote Full-stack web developer based in France. Seeking work with distributed teams in Europe or US/Canada East Coast. Main skills: Python, Django, Pyramid, SQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Linux, command-line. Prior experience with Java, Ruby and Perl. Some knowledge of Erlang. http://alexmarandon.com/ https://github.com/amarandon contact@alexmarandon.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2012)”
  4. rhizome31 · 2015-02-01

    Submitted Testing Phoenix controllers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. drawkbox · 2014-03-15
    2 weeks is very short notice for a service that has been around for a decade and integrated into thousands of games. This is a tell on flash web games I guess, no longer a market there for them (mochi) apparently. Mochi had lots of cool technology contributions ( http://mochi.github.io/mochikit/ ) including some interesting Erlang work ( http://alexmarandon.com/articles/mochiweb_tutorial/ - MochiWeb) and it really i…

    Comment linking /articles/mochiweb_tutorial/

    on “Mochi Media Shutting Down March 31st”
  6. admp · 2011-01-14

    Submitted Notes on repoze.bfg (now Pyramid) and ZODB as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. vivekchand19 · 2014-05-05Recommends
    Unit testing is all about abstracting / mocking out all the modules connected to the unit you are testing & just test your unit. If you are programming in python, http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/ would be the most preferred way of mocking out other external units connected to your unit under test. http://alexmarandon.com/articles/python_mock_gotchas/ should make you an expert on mocking

    Comment linking /articles/python_mock_gotchas/

    on “[Ask HN] Teach me how to unit test”
  8. zikohh · 2021-08-15

    Submitted Python unit testing common gotchas as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. rhizome31 · 2012-11-19

    Submitted Python Mock Gotchas as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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