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Carl Alexander writes The Man in the Arena, a personal blog at carlalexander.ca about programming and web. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-07, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2013

A place to learn about advanced programming topics using WordPress

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  1. Submitted Polymorphism and WordPress: Abstract classes as a story · 9 points

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  2. Submitted Harnessing your superpower with DRY as a story · 6 points

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  3. Submitted Wordpress is broken as a story · 4 points

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  4. Submitted Polymorphism and WordPress: Interfaces as a story · 4 points

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  5. Submitted The one tool I wish I had in PHP as a story · 4 points

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  6. Submitted How to Write a Book in Markdown as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted Using inheritance with WordPress as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Why object-oriented programming is your next step as a WordPress developer as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted An introduction to configuration management as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted What is software complexity and how can you manage it? (2018) as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted A plugin for a rainy day as a story · 1 points

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  12. Submitted Diving into WordPress errors as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted WordPress core as a gateway to better coding as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Why I am so bullish on health technology as a story · 1 points

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