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hack.write() is a personal blog at hackwrite.com about programming and writing. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Python and Django vs. Ruby and Rails”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2016

Writing about writing about development.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Python and Django vs. Ruby and Rails
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. So your argument against technical writers is that you've had bad experiences with FAANG technical writers? And you think developers always have the time and skill for writing proper documentation? I wish that was true. For certain types of documentation you need technical technical writers - for example, see http://hackwrite.com/posts/enough-to-be-dangerous/ . And you need a proper content strategy / information ar…

    Comment linking /posts/enough-to-be-dangerous/

    on “The Grand Unified Theory of Documentation”
  2. Submitted Python and Django vs. Ruby and Rails as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Object-Oriented vs. Functional Modelling of Musical Arithmetic in Python as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The Problem with GitHub Pages as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Python and Django vs. Ruby and Rails as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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