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Astrails
Company blog · astrails.com/blog · on HN as Vitalyprogrammingweb
Astrails is the company blog at astrails.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Writing Markdown With Style in Vim”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Astrails Ltd. is a web and mobile consultancy based in Tel Aviv, Israel and Berlin, Germany. We make things work. We use Node.js, React, Ruby on Rails, Elixir and machine/deep learning.
Most-linked posts?
- Writing Markdown With Style in Vim2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-12
What Hacker News says?
indeed astrails safe ( http://astrails.com/astrails-safe ) is missing :) and it is the most popular on ruby-toolbox: http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/backups.html it can dump: * mysql * postgres * filesystem * subversion storage: * local * sftp * s3 * rackspace cloudfiles extra: * backups can be encrypted with gpg * backups can be rotated oh, and all this is configured with a very simple ruby dsl!
Comment linking /astrails-safe
on “Ruby on Rails Backup Solutions”Submitted The Engineering Perspective: A Brief History of Web Development in 4 Parts as a story · 6 points
HN discussionwe've been offering "prototype in a week" for years at http://astrails.com/ Didn't get much demand for it. Its rare a customer will agree to the minimal enough feature-set for it to be viable.
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on “We'll build *any* webapp in 7 days”Submitted Writing Markdown With Style in Vim as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Markdown With Style in Vim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leap Years and Testing - Rails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted YAML, encodings and binary strings in Ruby as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to fix rdebug missing requests when using pow as a story · 1 points
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