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Francis Hwang
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Francis Hwang's personal blog at fhwang.net covers programming, startups and career. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link his posts on early Rails history from RubyConf 2004, a Redis-backed job queue interface, and his Play-by-Play series of screencasts with Ruby experts solving problems.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
I wasn't at RubyConf 2004 (back then I thought Ruby was some weird Perl-ish language from Japan, not worth my attention) but for my RailsConf talk I dug up some old blog posts about what it was like when DDH first spoke about Rails at that conference. Jamis Buck was there: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2004/10/2/rubyconf-day-two Francis Hwang: http://fhwang.net/2004/10/03/RubyConf-2004-Day-2 It's amazing how few peopl…
Comment linking /2004/10/03/RubyConf-2004-Day-2
on “Today Rails turns 10 years old”Submitted Hiring Rubyists at a Large Company as a story · 4 points
HN discussionVery cool, good to know. Yeah, it seems like it was a simple endeavor—Redis makes creating a queueing system quite easy. The Ruby `resque-web` interface works and is beautiful[1] with live polling. [1]: http://fhwang.net/image/image/124/4b0a538a5aa9a3e7dc1ff81bc4...
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on “Kue - redis backed priority job queue for node.js ”Submitted That $2,800 NYC Rails class as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMore from Francis: http://fhwang.net/2011/03/31/Play-by-Play The Play-by-Play series asks a bunch of Ruby experts to solve specific problems while being screencasted and encouraged to talk with really fine-grained detail about how to be productive. It’s less about specific tools and theories, and more about how to incorporate everything into a specific flow that works well for you.
Comment linking /2011/03/31/Play-by-Play
on “Play by Play -- ruby problem solving with Francis Hwang”Submitted Event Sourcing Libraries in Ruby: A Guide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should your web application be rich-client from day one? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Buy-vs-build for an early stage startup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Configuring Resque and resque-web for a production Rails app as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing Rails against a running Redis instance (+ w/ Hydra) as a story · 1 points
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