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Jon Cairns

Personal blog · joncairns.comprogrammingcareer

Jon Cairns's personal blog at joncairns.com covers programming and career. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often ““Fat model, skinny controller” is a load of rubbish”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2012–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

Software engineering leader and musician. Choose where to go next.

Most-linked posts?

  1. “Fat model, skinny controller” is a load of rubbish
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. ktf · 2012-12-27

    Submitted Vdebug: a DBGP debugger client for Vim supporting PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  2. cr4zy · 2014-02-04

    Submitted “Fat model, skinny controller” is a load of rubbish as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. eugenesia · 2013-06-12

    Submitted MVC's "fat model, skinny controller" is a load of rubbish as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. badri · 2013-04-12

    Submitted “Fat model, skinny controller” is a load of rubbish as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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