Top all-time · #3403
drnicwilliams.com
Personal blog · drnicwilliams.comprogrammingproductivity
drnicwilliams.com is a personal blog at drnicwilliams.com about programming and productivity. Since 2007, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Zero Sign On - 1 better or Infinitely better than Single Sign On?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link drnicwilliams.com for posts on Ruby and Rails tooling, including gem hosting, Rails app templates and the bosh deployment tool. Comments mostly cite the posts as examples rather than judge the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Zero Sign On - 1 better or Infinitely better than Single Sign On?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-02-22
- Reliable & Repeatable Development Environments with Continuous Integration2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-09
- Dr Nic's Instant new Rails applications with the App Scrolls2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-11
- Hacking someone’s gem with github and gemcutter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-08
What Hacker News says?
> Also: FWIW, I never notice folks' names on github. The important thing for me is that the code is right there front and center. If I want to download it, I click the clipboard button and then go clone it. Boom. Yeah, I think "BOOM!" is right. If you can't see the flaw in stuff like this: http://drnicwilliams.com/2009/11/04/hacking-someones-gem-wit... http://groups.google.com/group/gemcutter/browse_thread/threa...…
Comment linking /2009/11/04/hacking-someones-gem-with-github-and-gemcutter/
on “Zed Shaw: Launchpad vs. Github/SysAdmin vs. Coder”Submitted Zero Sign On - 1 better or Infinitely better than Single Sign On? as a story · 26 points
HN discussionalso there is another very nice solution for creating rails apps (using templates, too): http://appscrolls.org/ http://drnicwilliams.com/2012/04/10/instant-new-rails-applic...
Comment linking /2012/04/10/instant-new-rails-applications-with-the-app-scrolls/
on “Show HN: Ruby on Rails Bootstraping”Submitted Gitjour: share git repositories with bonjour (zeroconf) as a story · 24 points
HN discussionI can think of several reasons it won't work. Off the top of my head: 1) There are just so many shitty links and LOLcats out there that the chances a shitty submission to YC is also on the frontpage of reddit is very small 2) The problem with reddit is that the signal/noise ratio is so high, not that there are no good submissions that make it to the frontpage. For instance this http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/02/22/ze…
Comment linking /2008/02/22/zero-sign-on-with-client-certificates/
on “How about this idea to save Hacker News from fluff?”Submitted Install any HTML theme/template into your Rails app as a story · 16 points
HN discussionTake a look at bosh: http://drnicwilliams.com/2012/05/15/bosh-what-how-when/ . It has its own problems, but it does exactly what you want, and is used for large scale deployments.
Comment linking /2012/05/15/bosh-what-how-when/
on “Puppet 4 is now production-ready”Submitted Dr. Nic, Rails luminary, moves from Australia to SF to join Engine Yard as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Closing in on The Dream: “one-click-to-deploy Rails apps” as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking someone’s gem with github and gemcutter as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted First look at Rails 3.0.pre as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted One App, One User Account and Multiple OpenIDs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unit Testing iPhone apps with Ruby: rbiphonetest as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to stop killing people with your public speeches as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reliable & Repeatable Development Environments with Continuous Integration as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dr Nic's Instant new Rails applications with the App Scrolls as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making CI easier to do than not to with Hudson CI and Vagrant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 8 steps for fixing other people's code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a BOSH from scratch on AWS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Validate ruby files in Textmate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dr Nic ’s Customized Google Forms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Need rails developers? Hire Australians as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChocTop - packaging and deployment of Cocoa applications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub Badge for your Blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Git within a project (forking around) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autotesting Javascript in Rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussion