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BigBinary
Company blog · blog.bigbinary.comprogrammingweb
BigBinary is the company blog at blog.bigbinary.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2011, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Understanding bind and bindAll in Backbone.js”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link BigBinary's Rails posts, such as Rails 5 coverage, Ruby's Integer unification and Rails 6 Zeitwerk, as guides to new framework releases. One commenter found the Rails 5 series more useful than the official release notes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Understanding bind and bindAll in Backbone.js3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-08-18
- Ask Matz: why the id of nil is 4?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-02
- Phone Number Verification Using SMS via Twilio2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-12
What Hacker News says?
I'm happy to see the new way to render views outside the request cycle: http://blog.bigbinary.com/2016/01/08/rendering-views-outside... This will be great for, eg, creating reports or receipts in background jobs.
Comment linking /2016/01/08/rendering-views-outside-of-controllers-in-rails-5.html
on “Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more”Submitted Ask Matz: why the id of nil is 4? as a story · 58 points
HN discussionI've been following along with Rails 5 for many months now and I've been tracking progress on updating GitLab in our issue tracker[1]. Feel free to look at the relevant merge requests and use them as guides to upgrade your own apps :) We're still on 4.2.6 since we have a few gems we're waiting on, but I hope to change that in a month or two! Favorite features are probably the various performance improvements and und…
Comment linking /categories/Rails-5/
on “Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more”Submitted Test runner in Rails 5 as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIncidentally, this id is why we call wycats the "gate to enlightenment" -- it's proof that he's the "Mu" programmer. A monk once asked, does JavaScript have a Buddha-nature or not? Wycats said, "nil". The monk said, "Above to all the Haskells, below to all the crawling Javas, all have Buddha-nature. Why is it that JavaScript has not?" Wycats said, "Because it has the nature of karmic delusions." ( http://blog.bigbin…
Comment linking /2008/06/23/why-the-id-of-nil-is-4-in-ruby.html
on “Github turns five”Submitted Migrating rails app from postgresql to sql server as a story · 8 points
HN discussionRails 6 has a totally new code loader that was built specifically to address those issues called Zeitwerk. Some details here if you're interested https://blog.bigbinary.com/2019/10/08/rails-6-introduces-new...
Comment linking /2019/10/08/rails-6-introduces-new-code-loader-called-zeitwerk.html
on “Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith”Submitted Phone Number Verification Using SMS via Twilio as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI found Big Binary's Rails 5 blog more useful than the Rails 5 readme/release notes. Hoping they do the same for 5.1. http://blog.bigbinary.com/categories/Rails-5
Comment linking /categories/Rails-5
on “Rails 5.1.0 Beta 1”Submitted Rails 5 allows setting custom HTTP Headers for assets as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI blogged about it at http://blog.bigbinary.com/2012/05/10/csrf-and-rails.html .
Comment linking /2012/05/10/csrf-and-rails.html
on “Understanding Rails' protect_from_forgery”Submitted Using Stripe API in React Native with Fetch as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> In Ruby, the Bignum and Fixnum apis are also the same, with only the internal representation, as well as a few specific differences in how you handle a Bignum, as differences. In current Ruby, "Fixnum" and "Bignum" are legacy-support aliases for the unified "Integer" class. http://blog.bigbinary.com/2016/11/18/ruby-2-4-unifies-fixnum... > Integer as the name of an arbitrarily large number is going to be confusing.…
Comment linking /2016/11/18/ruby-2-4-unifies-fixnum-and-bignum-into-integer.html
on “ES proposal: arbitrary precision integers”Submitted DRYing Up Rails Views with View Carriers and Services as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt still use sequential matching[0]. What i meant is something like AST implementation in routing algorithm, which is obviously faster than sequential algorithm [1] [2] [0]: https://github.com/jmathai/epiphany/blob/master/src/EpiRoute... [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm [2]: http://blog.bigbinary.com/2013/01/29/journey-into-rails-rout...
Comment linking /2013/01/29/journey-into-rails-routing.html
on “Macaw - A Simple PHP Router”Submitted Tricks and Tips for Using Fixtures Effectively in Rails as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using ReactJS with Rails 5 Action Cable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Voice based phone verification using Twilio in Rails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding .bind and .bindall in Backbone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted XSS and Rails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tsort in ruby as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding bind and bindAll in Backbone.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Phone verification using SMS via Twilio as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Classes are for designers. data-behavior is for JavaScript developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript debugging in WebKit inspector as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pjax on rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Bind and bindAll in Backbone.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jquery-ujs and jquery trigger as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSRF and Rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby Pack Unpack as a story · 1 points
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