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Herman J. Radtke III

Personal blog · hermanradtke.com · on HN as hermanradtkeprogramming

Herman J. Radtke III's personal blog at hermanradtke.com covers programming. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Why Your Rails-Like Framework Is Not Widely Used”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-07, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
10HN people?
2012–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2015

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hermanradtke · 989 karma · member since 2013

CTO of Trove. I continue to write software both professionally and in my personal time. My personal work uses Rust and focuses on the HTTP networking stack. Blog - http://hermanradtke.com Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/hermanradtke.com Github - https://github.com/hjr3

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Why Your Rails-Like Framework Is Not Widely Used
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-09-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Rails clones in modern languages don’t get wide adoption. I wrote about why I think that is: https://hermanradtke.com/why-your-rails-like-framework-is-no...

    Comment linking /why-your-rails-like-framework-is-not-widely-used/

    on “Rust needs a web framework”
  2. Submitted Sending UDP Messages in Node.js Without DNS Lookups as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Working with C unions in Rust FFI as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Introduction to nom: a parsing framework written in Rust as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Why Your Rails-Like Framework Is Not Widely Used as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Managing Connection State with mio as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Why Your Rails-Like Framework Is Not Widely Used as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Webhook Failure Scenarios as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Send UDP Messages in Node.js Without Dns.lookup as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Managing Connection State with mio as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Get Data from a URL in Rust as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted PHP: The Good Parts as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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