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Avi Bryant
Personal blog · avibryant.com · on HN as avibryantprogramming
Avi Bryant's personal blog at avibryant.com covers programming. Since 2007, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Avi Bryant: MagLev recap”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Avi Bryant's blog for posts on Smalltalk, GemStone/GLASS, and MagLev, plus early posts on his DabbleDB and Wikipedia-on-iPhone work. Commenters mostly cite posts as background.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The latest on Avi Bryant
Most-linked posts?
- Avi Bryant: MagLev recap3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-06-01
- Gemstone, it's like Rails, but faster and easier3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-04-09
- Life, Changing (Smallthought joining Twitter)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-10
What Hacker News says?
http://www.avibryant.com/2010/06/life-changing.html
Comment linking /2010/06/life-changing.html
on “Twitter Acquires Smallthought Systems (DabbleDB, Trendly)”Submitted Life, Changing (Smallthought joining Twitter) as a story · 34 points
HN discussionWow, this seems to be the end of DabbleDB. It must have been a hard decision to put up such a message for a service they have poured heart and soul into for so long. I guess Trendly wound up the winner of their products though. I wonder if Avi Bryant will make a case for parts of Twitter running on Smalltalk. ;) If interested, here is a post from Avi Bryant, one of the founders. http://www.avibryant.com/
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on “Dabble DB acquired by Twitter”Submitted Avi Bryant: MagLev recap as a story · 30 points
HN discussion> Does the image approach mean that Smalltalk is not really suitable for quick and dirty sys admin type scripts that you would use Perl or Ruby for? No, it's not, but that's what we have Ruby for. :-) > would it be technically feasible to have a different Smalltalk image for every single account that is loaded only when that account is being used, with basically all the account data inside the image? I think that th…
Comment linking /2008/03/ive-had-a-numbe.html
on “Avi Bryant: MagLev recap”- pc · 2008-05-13
Submitted Smalltalker responds to Dynamic Languages Strike Back as a story · 17 points
HN discussion Here a good explanation by Avi Bryant of what is Gemstone Smalltalk: http://www.avibryant.com/2008/03/ive-had-a-numbe.html
Comment linking /2008/03/ive-had-a-numbe.html
on “GLASS is now free up to 16 GB and 2 CPU (formerly $7000/year)”Submitted Avi Bryant: Code as Screenplay as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFrom Avi Bryant http://www.avibryant.com/2008/01/dont-panic.html : It's not perfect yet - there's no images, just text, and the parser is pretty basic and doesn't know about tables and stuff
Comment linking /2008/01/dont-panic.html
on “Christmas hacking project: Wikipedia on the iPhone”Submitted Gemstone, it's like Rails, but faster and easier as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://www.avibryant.com/2008/06/maglev-recap.html http://chadfowler.com/2008/6/5/maglev
Comment linking /2008/06/maglev-recap.html
on “MagLev handles trees like a monkey”I haven't followed Maglev closely beyond some of the links posted here, so the following confused me: There were questions during the demo about ActiveRecord compatibility. To me, building in ActiveRecord compatibility is worse than a waste of time. [...] When you don’t NEED an RDBMS (more often than you think) or you need scalable Ruby servers, I think Maglev is going to be an enticing alternative. My understanding…
Comment linking /2008/06/maglev-recap.html
on “Chad Fowler on Maglev ”
