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East5th

Company blog · east5th.co/blogprogrammingweb

East5th is the company blog at east5th.co, writing about programming and web. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 79 times, most often “GenServers and Memory Images: A Match Made in Heaven”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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79mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 51 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link East5th for posts on deployment and tooling, such as whether containers suit deploy-as-source languages, and a 2015 post on scanning Meteor projects for vulnerable packages. The comments only cite these posts.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

High-quality Meteor development.

Most-linked posts?

  1. GenServers and Memory Images: A Match Made in Heaven
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-22
  2. Deploying Elixir Applications with Distillery
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-25
  3. GraphQL – Using Apollo Client with Elixir's Absinthe
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. > "If you develop on linux and run on linux and you’re in a deploy-as-source language, you may not care that much about repeatable builds." If you develop in Elixir or Erlang, there's an additional issue that containers (such as docker) tend to interfere with hot code reload. There are work-in-progress solutions (such as Elixir Distillery) that emphasize turning your app into a single package which can be deployed a…

    Comment linking /blog/2016/12/26/deploying-elixir-applications-with-distillery/

    on “Instead of containers, give me strong config and deploy primitives”
  2. Submitted Building Code Posters with Elixir as a story · 206 points

    HN discussion
  3. Related in nneteor land eksists this: http://www.east5th.co/blog/2015/12/07/scanning-meteor-projec... .

    Comment linking /blog/2015/12/07/scanning-meteor-projects-for-node-vulnerabilities/

    on “The Frequency of Known Vulnerabilities in JavaScript”
  4. Submitted Exploring the Bitcoin Blockchain with Elixir and Phoenix as a story · 76 points

    HN discussion
  5. PSA: Passwordless authentication is a valid and easy-to-implement authentication technique: http://www.east5th.co/blog/2017/04/24/passwordless-authentic... https://auth0.com/passwordless

    Comment linking /blog/2017/04/24/passwordless-authentication-with-phoenix-tokens/

    on “Welcome to password creation hell”
  6. Submitted Offline GraphQL Queries with Redux Offline and Apollo as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Using Create React App with Phoenix as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Using Apollo Client with Elixir's Absinthe as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted A Five Minute Introduction to NoSQL Injection as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Phoenix Todos – Static Assets as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Grokking the Y Combinator with Elixir as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Formatting with Vim Scripts as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Learning to Crawl – Building a Bare Bones Web Crawler with Elixir as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Advanced MongoDB Query Batching with DataLoader and Sift as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted What is NoSQL Injection? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted GenServers and Memory Images: A Match Made in Heaven as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Behold the Power of GraphQL as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted GraphQL – Using Apollo Client with Elixir's Absinthe as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted How to Use MongoDB with Elixir as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Assessing Mobile Meteor Applications as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Literate Commits as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted User Authentication Kata with Elixir and Phoenix as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Using GraphQL Schema Types with Apollo Server as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Controlling a Bitcoin Node with Elixir as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Offline GraphQL Mutations with Redux Offline and Apollo as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Distributed Systems are Hard as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted GenServers and Memory Images: A Match Made in Heaven as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted GraphQL NoSQL Injection Through JSON Types as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted GraphQL Authentication with Elixir and Absinthe as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Intercepting All Queries in a Meteor Application as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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