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jorin.me
Personal blog · jorin.meprogrammingdata
jorin.me is a personal blog at jorin.me about programming and data. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Experiments with Ruby and Go”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked once in a thread on compilers, where a commenter cites it as an example of implementing tasks in Go and Ruby to see what the computer actually does. The comment does not judge the writing.
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.
Jorin's personal blog on building data and communication systems
Most-linked posts?
- Experiments with Ruby and Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-14
What Hacker News says?
You're correct, but I think the utility of knowing about compilers is underrated. There have been a few front page posts recently that demonstrate very naive machine models. E.g. a few days ago there was this post > Writing Go took me a little longer since I had to implement a lot of functionality provided for me in Ruby. However, for every task it also made me think about what the computer actually does. http://jor…
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on “Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 1”Submitted Crux as General-Purpose Database as a story · 83 points
HN discussionThe discussion nicely points out all the things I also ran into over the last 5 years. This motivated me to summarize my experience: https://jorin.me/gettting-started-building-a-data-driven-bus... Thought it might be relevant to others here.
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on “Ask HN: Lessons learned from implementing user-facing analytics / dashboards?”Submitted Experiments with Ruby and Go as a story · 61 points
HN discussionhttps://jorin.me I build communication tools and write about data and technology. Latest post: Problem Solving Software creates value by solving problems. But effectively solving problems is hard. How can we get better at it? https://jorin.me/problem-solving/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Miniflux – Introduction to interesting ideas in React world as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Only HTTPS for one month as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Edit Images on the Command Line with GraphicsMagick as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What are your most used shell commands? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Script to edit encrypted files (Improvments welcome) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Go for Node.js Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Problem Solving as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating Data When You Never Erase History as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A subway ride home as a story · 1 points
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