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Compound Thinking

Personal blog · compoundthinking.com/blogprogrammingweb

Compound Thinking is a personal blog at compoundthinking.com about programming and web. Since 2007, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Sourceforge relaunches, now using TurboGears 2 and MongoDB”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-06, and you can follow it by feed.

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8mentions?
7HN people?
2007–2010first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a MongoDB 0.9.9 release thread, where one commenter cites a post on SourceForge's heavy production use of the database. The comment does not judge the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Sourceforge relaunches, now using TurboGears 2 and MongoDB
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. SourceForge are using it heavily in production: http://compoundthinking.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/16/turbog...

    Comment linking /blog/index.php/2009/07/16/turbogears-on-sourceforge/

    on “MongoDB 0.9.9 Released”
  2. Submitted TurboGears joins the Pylons Project as a story · 65 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Sourceforge relaunches, now using TurboGears 2 and MongoDB as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Focusing on removing “technical debt” is a dead end as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Coupling Django Style as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted TurboGears 2.0 to be based on Pylons as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted A Peek at the New Sourceforge.net as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted TurboGears 2.0 is out as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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