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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.

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35mentions?
10HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 19 in 2012

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.

The author on HN?

10char · 2,009 karma · member since 2010

http://clayallsopp.com twitter: @clayallsopp

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. RubyMotion: Year One
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-05
  2. How A Pull Request Rocked My World
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-02-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted How A Pull Request Rocked My World as a story · 320 points

    HN discussion
  3. spartango · 2013-06-27Recommends
    If 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”
  4. Submitted Give A Damn as a story · 132 points

    HN discussion
  5. > 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…

    Comment linking /posts/the-story-of-pull-request/

    on “Why we stopped using Drupal for our platform”
  6. Submitted The RubyMotion Way as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  7. Apart 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 :)

    Comment linking /posts/rubymotion-year-one/

    on “Show HN: Pagoda, a Zen-mode Jekyll blog editor”
  8. Submitted The Purple Crayon as a story · 65 points

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  9. Submitted We're Better At Design, And That's Not Good as a story · 49 points

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  10. Submitted Google Reader: A Product vs. A Symbol as a story · 45 points

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  11. Submitted Where The Puck Is Going as a story · 45 points

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  12. Submitted Billboards Are Like Facebook as a story · 41 points

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  13. Submitted BlinkLink Post-Mortem: 50k pageviews, 700 blinks as a story · 40 points

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  14. Submitted The Problem With Kickstarter And Software as a story · 39 points

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  15. Submitted The Shape of Mobile Development To Come as a story · 38 points

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  16. Submitted Growing Old on Facebook as a story · 37 points

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  17. Submitted Why There Are No Game Console App Stores as a story · 34 points

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  18. Submitted Mobile at Scale as a story · 33 points

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  19. Submitted Square's culture: "That makes us look really bad." as a story · 33 points

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  20. Submitted Metaprogramming in RubyMotion as a story · 32 points

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  21. Submitted Don't Say Startup as a story · 22 points

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  22. Submitted Mixing Objective-C and Ruby as a story · 18 points

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  23. Submitted RubyMotion: Year One as a story · 16 points

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  24. Submitted How It Feels To Build as a story · 14 points

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  25. Submitted What Excites Me About RubyMotion as a story · 12 points

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  26. Submitted Let Me Tell You A Story as a story · 9 points

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  27. Submitted Writing a Programming Book as a story · 8 points

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  28. Submitted Empathy In The Time Of Twitter as a story · 7 points

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  29. Submitted Now Is The Time For Real-Time as a story · 7 points

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  30. Submitted How a Pull Request Rocked My World as a story · 5 points

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