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Jamie Gaskins

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Jamie Gaskins's personal blog at jgaskins.org covers programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Clearwater, a Front-End Web Framework in Ruby”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Jamie Gaskins' blog for a post on the warts of Ruby and a write-up on the motivation behind the Clearwater Ruby front-end MVC framework.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Clearwater, a Front-End Web Framework in Ruby
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. Python has its own wiki about them for one (first Google hit): http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts Here is one of the first Google hits for Ruby: http://jgaskins.org/blog/2012/05/16/ruby-warts/ Every languages has warts. Lots of them.

    Comment linking /blog/2012/05/16/ruby-warts/

    on “Perl 5.18.0 is now available”
  2. Submitted Clearwater, a Front-End Web Framework in Ruby as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. vais · 2015-01-20Recommends
    The author has a nice write-up on the motivation behind it here: http://jgaskins.org/blog/2015/1/17/clearwater-a-front-end-we...

    Comment linking /blog/2015/1/17/clearwater-a-front-end-web-framework-in-ruby

    on “Ruby front-end MVC framework”

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