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Chris Oliver

Personal blog · excid3.com/blog · on HN as excid3programmingcareer

Chris Oliver's personal blog at excid3.com covers programming and career. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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2010–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Chris Oliver's personal site, linked as a pointer to its author, a Rails community member who also maintains Jumpstart Rails. The comments do not discuss the posts themselves.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Chris Oliver specializes in web development with Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML5, and CSS3

The author on HN?

excid3 · 714 karma · member since 2010

I'm a Rails developer from St. Louis, MO. http://excid3.com | chris@excid3.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://jumpstartrails.com/ It's very polished. Kept up to date. Follows best practices for RoR. The author is one of the most active RoR community members. https://excid3.com/ edit: If you like PHP then https://spark.laravel.com/ is an official Laravel project. I haven't used it but I've seen discussions where folks recommend it.

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    on “What's the best SaaS starter kit?”
  2. Submitted Ideas For Beginning Web Developers as a story · 99 points

    HN discussion
  3. Are there ruby or rails user groups/meetups around you? If not, there's a bunch of mentor groups, or reddit seems pretty supportive. Stackoverflow is pretty good but there aren't enought people answering questions for the volume they're getting http://www.railsmentors.org/ https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/Available-mentors http://www.reddit.com/r/rails/ http://installfest.railsbridge.org/installfest/ (Rail…

    Comment linking /blog/setting-up-ubuntu-12-04-with-ruby-1-9-3-nginx-passenger-and-postgresql-or-mysql/

    on “Help with Rails?”
  4. Submitted You Don’t Truly Understand It Until You Think It’s Obvious as a story · 60 points

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  5. Submitted Looking Back At What I Learned At College as a story · 47 points

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  6. Submitted Want Something? Make It Easy To Say Yes as a story · 46 points

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  7. Submitted Finishing Is All That Matters as a story · 16 points

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  8. Submitted Dont tell me you want to change the world. Show me. as a story · 14 points

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  9. Submitted The Customers You Really Want as a story · 14 points

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  10. Submitted You're just making excuses as a story · 11 points

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  11. Submitted Give Things Away as a story · 10 points

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  12. Submitted Change Should Be Progressive as a story · 8 points

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  13. Submitted How I Find Motivation as a story · 6 points

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  14. Submitted Too Engrained as a story · 5 points

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  15. Submitted How Do You Become Memorable? By Being A Little Weird as a story · 5 points

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  16. Submitted Custom Twitter Bootstrap Button Colors as a story · 3 points

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  17. Submitted Buy less. Create more. as a story · 3 points

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  18. Submitted How To Contribute To Open Source On Github as a story · 3 points

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  19. Submitted Teach whether you know what you're doing or not as a story · 3 points

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  20. Submitted Have A Higher Purpose as a story · 3 points

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  21. Submitted Simplicity Is Definitely Complicated as a story · 3 points

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  22. Submitted How to get a sweet job before you graduate as a story · 3 points

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  23. Submitted Review: Logitech Revue with GoogleTV as a story · 3 points

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  24. Submitted Practice Like An Athlete as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted 3 Rules For Becoming A Better Developer In 2013 as a story · 2 points

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  26. Submitted How To Learn Quickly as a story · 2 points

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  27. Submitted Rails Security in the Wild as a story · 2 points

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  28. Submitted Just Get To The Point as a story · 2 points

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  29. Submitted Small Comparison of Ruby And Python Syntax as a story · 2 points

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  30. Submitted Don't Be Ashamed as a story · 2 points

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