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Clay Allsopp
Personal blog · clayallsopp.com/posts · on HN as 10charprogrammingdesignstartups
Clay Allsopp's personal blog at clayallsopp.com covers programming, design and startups. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “RubyMotion: Year One”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Clay Allsopp's posts on RubyMotion, including his year-one post, as a view from a startup using it in production. The blog also covers writing a programming book.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- RubyMotion: Year One3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-05
- How A Pull Request Rocked My World3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-02-02
What Hacker News says?
It's scary to think that this guy who was just shocked to discover a very basic concept of object oriented programming (polymorphism) has written his own book on iOS programming: http://clayallsopp.com/posts/writing-a-programming-book
Comment linking /posts/writing-a-programming-book
on “How A Pull Request Rocked My World”Submitted How A Pull Request Rocked My World as a story · 320 points
HN discussionIf you're curious to hear more perspectives on using RubyMotion in production, you might check out Clay Allsopp's blog posts (e.g. http://clayallsopp.com/posts/rubymotion-year-one/ ). His startup has been using RubyMotion for a while and he's written tutorial and a book for it as well.
Comment linking /posts/rubymotion-year-one/
on “Why I'm Not Using RubyMotion in Production”Submitted Give A Damn as a story · 132 points
HN discussion> Tell me more about how you read the GoF book, and applied the patterns in a language that does not even have interfaces or type-hinting. What a joke. I don't see any joke. Jokes are of the type "Knock knock, who's there", etc. Using GoF patterns in a language without interfaces or type hinting? Not so much. Most of the design patterns can be applied in any language, some languages even have inherent support for so…
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on “Why we stopped using Drupal for our platform”Submitted The RubyMotion Way as a story · 82 points
HN discussionApart from svbtle, there are lot of themes that are unique and beautiful (of course with jekyll as backend): - http://clayallsopp.com/posts/rubymotion-year-one/ - http://paulstamatiou.com/responsive-retina-blog-design - http://zachholman.com/posts/left/ I think dcurtis should be already pissed off that I ripped his design. So not sure about doing it again :)
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on “Show HN: Pagoda, a Zen-mode Jekyll blog editor”Submitted The Purple Crayon as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're Better At Design, And That's Not Good as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Reader: A Product vs. A Symbol as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where The Puck Is Going as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Billboards Are Like Facebook as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted BlinkLink Post-Mortem: 50k pageviews, 700 blinks as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem With Kickstarter And Software as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Shape of Mobile Development To Come as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Growing Old on Facebook as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why There Are No Game Console App Stores as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mobile at Scale as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Square's culture: "That makes us look really bad." as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metaprogramming in RubyMotion as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Say Startup as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mixing Objective-C and Ruby as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted RubyMotion: Year One as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted How It Feels To Build as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Excites Me About RubyMotion as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let Me Tell You A Story as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a Programming Book as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Empathy In The Time Of Twitter as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Now Is The Time For Real-Time as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted How a Pull Request Rocked My World as a story · 5 points
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