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codefol.io
Personal blog · codefol.io/posts · on HN as angelbobprogrammingbusiness
codefol.io is a personal blog at codefol.io about programming and business. Since 2012, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “The forty-year programmer”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link codefol.io for posts on Ruby, metaprogramming and language design, such as the "every toddler a chainsaw" essay and whether Ruby has a metaobject protocol. One commenter calls the author's book Rebuilding HTTP interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The forty-year programmer5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-09-02
- The Urban Legend of the 10x Developer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-04
- The Hundred-Year Programming Language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-01
- Is Ruby 3 Three Times Faster?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-09
What Hacker News says?
There's a saying that Ruby gives "Every toddler a chainsaw" ( https://codefol.io/posts/ruby-python-and-freedom/ ). You can use it and it's metaprogramming to write some really elegant APIs. You can also write entirely the wrong abstractions, and it will not stop you. You can even extract private variables from lambdas if you're willing. Now, imagine that in the hands of someone with poor taste, or, even, just rather…
Comment linking /posts/ruby-python-and-freedom/
on “Ruby 3.0”Submitted The forty-year programmer as a story · 491 points
HN discussionHis book "Rebuilding HTTP" is interesting ( https://codefol.io/portfolio/#writing )
Comment linking /portfolio/
on “In Memoriam: Noah Gibbs”Submitted When Should You Not Use Rails? as a story · 142 points
HN discussionit seems that Ruby doesnt have a MOP http://codefol.io/posts/Does-Ruby-Have-a-Metaobject-Protocol
Comment linking /posts/Does-Ruby-Have-a-Metaobject-Protocol
on “In Praise of Perl 5”Submitted There's No Such Thing as Knowing Your Computer 'All the Way to the Bottom' as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted My First $1000 in Product Revenue, with Graphs as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Use Rails instead of Sinatra or Node.js? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Forty-Year Programmer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Forty-Year Programmer (2022) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Ruby 3 Three Times Faster? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Urban Legend of the 10x Developer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Do They Say Rails Doesn't Scale? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Forty-Year Programmer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Forty-Year Programmer (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hundred-Year Programming Language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Urban Legend of the 10x Developer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rubyists: Mock Time.now for Faster Tests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hundred-Year Programming Language as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Ruby 3 Three Times Faster? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Kinds of Marketing for Tiny Web Businesses as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted BigCo New Employee Training (Inside Voice) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep dive into Rails/Rack parameter parsing as a story · 1 points
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