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Giles Bowkett
Personal blog · gilesbowkett.com/blogprogrammingeconomics
Giles Bowkett writes giles bowkett, a personal blog at gilesbowkett.com about programming and economics. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mention Giles Bowkett as a paid mentor, his older blog that often reached the HN front page, and a secret music-hacking blog. No comment judges the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-25
What Hacker News says?
For those who lack colleagues sitting by and ready to help you getting involved into open source will provide you a kind of mentoring. Then there are people who will mentor you for money. Giles Bowkett ( http://gilesbowkett.com ) did this a while a go. Not bad option at all. I'd see paying for someone way smarter than my self to teach me as an amazing investment.
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on “How to grow into your best developer self”Submitted Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem as a story · 159 points
HN discussionhi! I made Fork Freshness. that alternative is much faster, but it relies on the `pushed_at` attribute from the GitHub REST API. I was unable to find documentation for that attribute, but I rejected the GraphQL equivalent, `pushedAt`, because if Dependabot pushes to an otherwise dead repo with a PR to auto-update some dependency, `pushedAt` treats that as recent work. I didn't want to write a robot which chased anot…
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on “Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem”Submitted Vector Capitalism and Vector Protest as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI had a blog that got to the top of HN on a regular basis — gilesbowkett.blogspot.com — but I shut it down. then I made a small, secret blog about music hacking called https://truthindustri.es now I have a barely-used blog at https://gilesbowkett.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”