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Personal blog · cbui.dev · on HN as 147programmingsystems

Home on cbui.dev is a personal blog at cbui.dev about programming and systems. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

A commenter links a post from this blog introducing Pry, a Ruby REPL, as the tool to use for hot reloading in Ruby, in a thread about Lisp.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

147 · 982 karma · member since 2012

147.at.hn I'm passionate about deployments and tooling for developers. I write at [https://cbui.dev](https://cbui.dev) In the past I've: Saved a company $500k a year in CI infrastructure costs. Worked with a several hundred engineer organization to migrate from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. Introduced configuration as code and GitOps best practices to teams. Built dynamic review environments triggered on pull request. Contact: 147 {at] cbui.dev GitHub: [https://github.com/cbui/](https://github.com…

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What Hacker News says?

  1. twobitshifter · 2021-11-13
    That’s really cool to see. For Ruby, pry is usually the REPL to use for hot reloads. https://www.cbui.dev/an-introduction-to-pry-a-ruby-repl/

    Comment linking /an-introduction-to-pry-a-ruby-repl/

    on “Why Lisp?”
  2. jcubic · 2021-09-18

    Submitted How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016) as a story · 468 points

    HN discussion
  3. 147 · 2021-09-08

    Submitted GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas as a story · 217 points

    HN discussion
  4. dmarto · 2024-02-13

    Submitted Don't Use SSH Keys with AWS EC2 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. 147 · 2022-02-21

    Submitted GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner Observability and Monitoring as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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