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Joseph Wilk

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Joseph Wilk's personal blog at blog.josephwilk.net covers programming and writing. Since 2008, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Building Clojure services at scale”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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2008–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2012

Exploring patterns as a means of documenting Clojure functions to aid recall and understanding. Whats the difference in Clojure between: partition …

Most-linked posts?

  1. Building Clojure services at scale
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-03-21
  2. A developer's guide to creating presentations
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-19
  3. Animations with Emacs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-30
  4. Latent Semantic Analysis in Ruby
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-12-14
  5. Sets in Elixir
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-06
  6. Functions Explained Through Patterns
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-24
  7. Clojure and Overtone Driving Minecraft
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. reilly3000 · 2019-09-13
    There is an item called a structure block that consists of a 2d array of block types and their relative positions. Once you've defined a structure block in-game you can place copies of it into the world. That can really help with some of these larger projects to have some boilerplate. Additionally, there are some really interesting ways to build minecraft content with various programming languages. I'm aware of a Py…

    Comment linking /clojure/overtone-driving-minecraft.html

    on “Wintergatan's Marble Machine in Minecraft [video]”
  2. r4vik · 2013-09-13

    Submitted Building Clojure Services at Scale as a story · 149 points

    HN discussion
  3. puredanger · 2014-11-03
    Here's a few: - Walmart Labs - http://jobs.walmart.com/san-bruno/ecommerce/mobile-instore-s... - Staples - http://careers.staples.com/sanmateo/ - Climate Corp (now owned by Monsanto) - https://github.com/TheClimateCorporation - RoomKey http://www.colinsteele.org/post/27929539434/60-000-growth-in... - Puppet Labs - http://puppetlabs.com/blog/new-era-application-services-pupp... - Soundcloud - http://blog.josephwilk.n…

    Comment linking /clojure/building-clojure-services-at-scale.html

    on “Ask HN: Who's using Clojure in production?”
  4. erkose · 2014-08-29

    Submitted Building Clojure services at scale as a story · 137 points

    HN discussion
  5. zupatol · 2008-12-14
    Latent semantic analysis can be used to measure the similarity of two documents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis I found examples in ruby and python in this blog, which is unfortunately down just at the moment http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/latent-semantic-analysis-in-...

    Comment linking /ruby/latent-semantic-analysis-in-ruby.html

    on “Links between Paul Graham's essays - revisited”
  6. michaelsbradley · 2015-03-01

    Submitted Clojure and Overtone Driving Minecraft as a story · 71 points

    HN discussion
  7. neolefty · 2014-03-21
    Piotr's article is a brief tutorial and includes sample code. Here's another article about micro-services with Clojure at SoundCloud, with much more depth and industrial scale, by Joseph Wilk: http://blog.josephwilk.net/clojure/building-clojure-services...

    Comment linking /clojure/building-clojure-services-at-scale.html

    on “Developing micro-services using Clojure, with REST+JSON – Piotr Jagielski”
  8. jcla1 · 2012-10-14

    Submitted Latent Semantic Analysis in Ruby as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  9. platz · 2013-03-13

    Submitted A developer's guide to creating presentations as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  10. fs111 · 2013-12-02

    Submitted Sounds of the Human Brain as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  11. tosh · 2017-05-29

    Submitted Sets in Elixir as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. josephwilk · 2012-12-14

    Submitted The aesthetics of density as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. mantlepro · 2020-12-12

    Submitted Emacs as a Musical Instrument (2018) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. tosh · 2017-05-29

    Submitted Building Clojure Services at Scale as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. tosh · 2017-05-24

    Submitted Functions Explained Through Patterns as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. blymphony · 2015-10-30

    Submitted Animations with Emacs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. josephwilk · 2013-06-10

    Submitted Isolating External Dependencies in Clojure as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. josephwilk · 2012-11-12

    Submitted Recurrent neural networks in Ruby as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. antirez · 2012-06-20

    Submitted Conferences and the cult of celebrity as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. signa11 · 2023-02-26

    Submitted Animations with Emacs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. pmoriarty · 2020-09-13

    Submitted Emacs as a Musical Instrument as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. yogthos · 2017-11-09

    Submitted Functions Explained Through Patterns as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. agonzalezro · 2015-10-10

    Submitted A Developers Guide to Creating Presentations as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. josephwilk · 2013-08-27

    Submitted Creating sampled instruments in Overtone as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. josephwilk · 2013-07-06

    Submitted How Sets are implemented in Elixir as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. josephwilk · 2012-12-19

    Submitted A developers guide to creating presentations as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. josephwilk · 2012-11-19

    Submitted Why are you SHOUTING programmer? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. josephwilk · 2012-11-11

    Submitted Rhetoric for programmers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. ph0rque · 2011-07-26

    Submitted Mining Cucumber Features as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. robeastham · 2010-10-13

    Submitted Smellycast: Uncover code smells & target features using Limited Red & Cucumber as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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