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Dylan Paulus
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Dylan Paulus's personal blog at dylanpaulus.com covers programming and web. Since 2017, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-03-29
- Advice for New Software Engineers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-04
- Easily Generate Mock Data with PostgreSQL2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-10
- How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-03
- Start with “No”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-14
What Hacker News says?
The submission link should be https://www.dylanpaulus.com/tips-for-new-software-engineers/ . I am not sure why it's linked to the homepage of the site.
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on “Advice for New Software Engineers”Submitted How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers as a story · 395 points
HN discussionhttps://dylanpaulus.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Advice for New Software Engineers as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThis same technique - WITH RECURSIVE - is also supported by SQLite. I ported the example in this tutorial to SQLite here - now you can play with it in Datasette Lite: https://lite.datasette.io/?sql=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.githubuser... Amusingly I ported the sample PostgreSQL code using the new ChatGPT "Browsing" alpha, with the following prompt: > Read this tutorial and then output equivalent create table and insert sta…
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on “Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had”Submitted Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had as a story · 9 points
HN discussionMost websites use 3rd-party ad networks. To prevent ad fraud, these 3rd-party ad networks require that the ads are served from their own 3rd-party server. This makes it easy for adblockers to distinguish between ad-traffic and content. > “1.) Making all ad traffic route through the origin website.” AFAIK, ad networks don’t want to do this because it would allow the origin website to tamper with the traffic and commi…
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on “Ask HN: Why are ad-blockers so effective”Submitted Introduction to Functional Programming as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttps://www.dylanpaulus.com/posts Programming topics ~1 a month with some big gaps in there. I got inspired by Hanselman's "save your keystrokes" ( https://www.hanselman.com/blog/do-they-deserve-the-gift-of-y... ), and most posts revolve around questions I get.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Write Software that Evolves as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had (2023) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted React: Introduction to Higher Order Components as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easily Generate Mock Data with PostgreSQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easily Generate Mock Data with PostgreSQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Reduce Your PostgreSQL Database Size as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unraveling Graph Structures: Exploring Adjacency Matrices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improve Your Prompts for LLMs: Simple and Effective Techniques as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improve Your Prompts for LLMs: Simple and Effective Techniques as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Worktree: Enhance Your Git Workflow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advice for New Software Engineers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Start with “No” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS: The Important Stuff (Box Model) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips on Improving FabricJS Speed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reactjs: Factory Components as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted React Patterns: Global Component Registration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ReactJs: Encapsulating State with Functional Children as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted React: Tips on Creating Reusable Components as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easily Generate Mock Data with PostgreSQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unraveling Graph Structures: Exploring Adjacency Matrices as a story · 1 points
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