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flexport.engineering is the company blog at flexport.engineering, writing about programming and business. Since 2017, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Adding Sorbet to a Rails Monolith”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

39mentions?
29HN people?
2017–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Engineering blog of Flexport, a San Francisco freight and global trade company. On HN it is mostly linked in hiring threads and recruiting comments pointing to what engineering work involves there.

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?

  1. Adding Sorbet to a Rails Monolith
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-13
  2. Approximating “Prettier for Ruby” with RuboCop
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-10
  3. Upgrading Prettier on a Large Codebase
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-14
  4. Writing custom ESLint rules for your picky developers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-09
  5. Kent Beck's TCR: A pulverizer for coding tasks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-11
  6. Optimizing React Rendering
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-23
  7. Six security vulnerabilities from a year of HackerOne
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Flexport | Software Engineers, Staff Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers and Product Designers | San Francisco | flexport.com / flexport.engineering Flexport's mission is to fix the user experience in global trade and bring the world free trade through technology. Here at Flexport, we share a vision where any two businesses can trade with each other without regard for geographic distance, logistical complex…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”
  2. Submitted Using mixed integer programming to assign air cargo to flights as a story · 199 points

    HN discussion
  3. Flexport | Software Engineers, Staff Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers and Product Designers | San Francisco | flexport.com / flexport.engineering Flexport's mission is to fix the user experience in global trade and bring the world free trade through technology. Here at Flexport, we share a vision where any two businesses can trade with each other without regard for geographic distance, logistical complex…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”
  4. Submitted Optimizing React Rendering as a story · 128 points

    HN discussion
  5. Flexport is also hiring engineering interns! Contact me via my profile here, or apply directly: https://www.flexport.com/careers/job/221999 You can learn more about what's involved on our engineering blog at https://flexport.engineering .

    Comment linking /

    on “Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation”
  6. Submitted Building Accurate Shipment Timelines – A Sorted Affair as a story · 100 points

    HN discussion
  7. The semantic formatting seems better to me, but I feel like I'll get used to almost any reasonable formatting. If you spend enough time with a consistently formatted codebase, your eye will be drawn to the important parts when you review code. In a tiny way, you develop "expertise" with the formatting, and when you look at other code there is an ever-so-subtle friction to understanding it. Manually reindenting code…

    Comment linking /approximating-prettier-for-ruby-with-rubocop-8b863bd64dc6

    on “Semantic Clojure Formatting”
  8. Submitted Isolating Rails Engines with RuboCop as a story · 88 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Six security vulnerabilities from a year of HackerOne as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Writing custom ESLint rules for your picky developers as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Flexport relocates trucking headquarters to Chicago as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Six Vulnerabilities from a Year of HackerOne as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Ending the debate on inline functions in React as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Flexport is brutally disrupting global trade and international shipping as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Approximating “Prettier for Ruby” with RuboCop as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Upgrading Prettier on a Large Codebase as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted How to serve web clients in China: an experiment with Cloudflare's China service as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Flexport Engineering Blog - Index Selectivity: A Key to High Performance SQL as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Encouraging Inclusive Code with RuboCop as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Adding Sorbet to a Rails Monolith as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Air cargo supply and demand at Flexport as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Kent Beck's TCR: A pulverizer for coding tasks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Optimizing React Rendering as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Writing Custom Lint Rules for Your Picky Developers as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted What It’s Like to Work as an Infra Engineer at Flexport as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Moving to a Static Site with Gatsby, Netlify and Contentful as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Optimizing React Rendering – Mutation Detection with ES6 Proxy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Optimizing React Rendering (Part 2) – Mutation Sentinel as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Writing Custom Lint Rules for Your Picky Developers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Test and Commit or Revert as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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