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Depfu
Company blog · depfu.com/blogprogrammingbusiness
Depfu is the company blog at depfu.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Gemfile's new clothes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Depfu's blog for posts about dependency security alerts in Ruby projects, such as its feature flagging security updates, which one commenter links while describing the same approach.
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.
Get the great feeling of up-to-date dependencies and secure software without all the boring manual work
Most-linked posts?
- Gemfile's new clothes3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-07
What Hacker News says?
We do exactly that at Depfu (for Ruby): https://depfu.com/blog/2017/09/28/depfu-now-flags-security-u... But I'm also pretty sure Github is going to do that soon, it's an obvious next step.
Comment linking /blog/2017/09/28/depfu-now-flags-security-updates
on “Security alerts on GitHub”Submitted Gemfile's new clothes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A brief history of dependency management as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gemfile's new clothes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Depfu: Continuous automated dependency updates for Ruby as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rethinking the dependencies badge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gemfile's new clothes as a story · 1 points
HN discussion