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Ariejan de Vroom
Personal blog · ariejan.netprogrammingsystems
Ariejan de Vroom writes devroom.io, a personal blog at ariejan.net about programming and systems. Since 2007, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ariejan de Vroom's posts as practical how-to guides, such as a short git best-practices tutorial, an S3 public-read bucket policy, and creating git patches.
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.
Ariejan de Vroom's homepage.
What Hacker News says?
I'm still just getting the hang of git, but I've found this best practices[1] tutorial the most handy to just get started. I needed to play around at this basic level before any of these other more complicated comments started to make sense. Check it out, it's very short. [1] http://ariejan.net/2009/06/08/best-practice-the-git-developm...
Comment linking /2009/06/08/best-practice-the-git-development-cycle/
on “Git Is Simpler Than You Think”Submitted Rails 3 + Devise + Uploadify = No Flash Session Hacks as a story · 30 points
HN discussionYou can use a bucket policy e.g. https://ariejan.net/2010/12/24/public-readable-amazon-s3-buc...
Comment linking /2010/12/24/public-readable-amazon-s3-bucket-policy/
on “Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?”Submitted Narf: A Ruby Micro Test Framework as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThank you. Also, info about git patch rather than a git cherrypick, in-case it's useful to anyone: https://ariejan.net/2009/10/26/how-to-create-and-apply-a-pat...
Comment linking /2009/10/26/how-to-create-and-apply-a-patch-with-git
on “ActiveRecord Vulnerability - Circumvention of attr_protected”Submitted Subversion Cheat Sheet as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI was like that myself 6 months ago. I had some cool stuff to work on, and would to it in the evening, getting to bed late, tired the next day. I changed it by planning small chunks of work for each morning, getting up at 5. Doing a bit of work before the rest of the family wakes up. Than at 22:00 you're feeling tired and you go to bed. It takes a bit of getting used to, but after a few days you don't want to do it…
Comment linking /2013/05/21/early-birds/
on “Ask HN: How do you become a morning person? ”Submitted Four unusual uses for Subversion as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI work on my side projects in the early morning - before work: http://ariejan.net/2013/05/21/early-birds/
Comment linking /2013/05/21/early-birds/
on “Ask HN: Managing Side Projects with Full Time Job?”Submitted Eight great ways to use Google for your startup as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lighting fast, zero-downtime deployments with git, capistrano, Nginx and Unicorn as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are you using RSpec+Cucumber+FactoryGirl right now? Read this as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top 28 Startup Resources as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source is a privilege. Not a right. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vows and CoffeeScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Subversion Cheat Sheet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I made 6 figures with Google Adsense in 10 days as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin Mining Anno 2017 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with Technical Debt as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Deploying Rails+Sidekiq with git-deploy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Call to all CI Service Providers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Star Trek has shaped our technology and future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast specs - Run your specs in less than 1 second as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lighting fast, zero-downtime deployments with git, capistrano, nginx and Unicorn as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crowd sourcing your BitCoin mining as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rake with namespaces and default tasks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rake task to sync your assets to Amazon S3/Cloudfront as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Resolve Subversion Conflicts? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ultimate List of Ruby Resources as a story · 2 points
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