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err.the_blog is a personal blog at errtheblog.com about programming and web. Since 2007, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2007–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link err.the_blog, Chris Wanstrath's Rails blog, for its Memcached and Rails caching material. Comments are brief, with one nostalgic remark and one pointer to a Memcached presentation.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Err the Blog: Ruby and Rails from the front.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /post/4872
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-05-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. This takes me back. http://errtheblog.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “The New Three-Tier Application”
  2. Submitted Who Needs an API? as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  3. inklesspen · 2007-05-22Recommends
    Chris Wanstrath had a great presentation on Memcached at railsconf: http://errtheblog.com/post/4872

    Comment linking /post/4872

    on “The Secret to Memcached”
  4. Submitted Huba Huba — overlooked but tasty GitHub tidbits. as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. I agree - someone could prove me wrong but this article just kills the whole point of using rails with a bunch of bad practices. If someone wants to improve their rails app performance, it's better to use cache_fu and memcached: http://errtheblog.com/post/4872 to me it makes a lot more sense to cache your db calls instead of the view layer

    Comment linking /post/4872

    on “Making Rails Wicked Fast: Pagecaching Highly Personalized Web Pages”
  6. Submitted _why's classic content_for post, still applies today as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Actions Are Methods as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The jSkinny on jQuery as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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