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Dan Mayer
Personal blog · mayerdan.comprogrammingweb
Dan Mayer writes Continuously Deployed, a personal blog at mayerdan.com about programming and web. Since 2009, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Ruby Caches – Rails Cache Comparisons”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Dan Mayer's blog, linked in one comment on a thread about the IRS's 60-year-old tax system failing on tax day. The comment does not assess the writing.
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?
- Ruby Caches – Rails Cache Comparisons2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-24
- Investigating API Developer Tooling2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-31
- Feature Branch Staging Servers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-16
What Hacker News says?
> Fun (scary) fact – significant portions of the IRS tax system is still written in assembly. Why is that scary? It has decades of real life testing applied to it if there were any obvious bugs they would have been found by now. Assembly is just another language, it is slower to develop in but there are many examples of high level language issues that are at least as scary as what you could do in assembly. In the en…
Comment linking /ruby/2012/11/11/bugs-per-line-of-code-ratio
on “IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware”Submitted Ruby Caches – Rails Cache Comparisons as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote up a bunch of pros/cons on continuous deployment about 3 months ago http://mayerdan.com/programming/2013/08/04/thoughts-on-conti... I am pro continuous integration, continuous delivery to staging. I think it takes extra care to do continuous deployment to production. There needs to be a number of systems in place some of which @mattjaynes mentioned others really depend on having a very solid and accessible d…
Comment linking /programming/2013/08/04/thoughts-on-continuous-deployment/
on “What is Continuous Deployment?”Submitted Introducing Churn Site to measure code churn as a story · 3 points
HN discussionfollowing up, finished reading it awhile ago, but finally wrote up a review... So here were my thoughts http://www.mayerdan.com/2009/01/cryptonomicon_book_review_1.... up next Snowcrash
Comment linking /2009/01/cryptonomicon_book_review_1.php
on “New Neal Stephenson Book Out - Anathem”Submitted Ruby Caches – Rails Cache Comparisons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Impacts of Micro-Service Request Depth on Availability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feature Branch Staging Servers (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feature Branch Staging Servers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Investigating API Developer Tooling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Investigating API dev tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guitar Hero, Grand Theft Auto, and the Effects of Video Games as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub Organization Repositories by Ruby Version as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning and Teaching with Game Days as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Benchmarking JSON Parsers (OJ vs. SimdJson), 2x Faster Than StdLib as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Safely Removing Image Assets from Rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Restoration of a Ruby Test Suite as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributed Team Tips as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A look at learning to program self-learning to bootcamps. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Markdown to create a resume & deploy to Heroku in multiple formats quickly as a story · 1 points
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