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Josh Symonds

Personal blog · joshsymonds.com/blogprogrammingweb

Josh Symonds's personal blog at joshsymonds.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Existing Rails API Solutions Suck”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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30mentions?
7HN people?
2012–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 15 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

Post questioning whether RubyMotion's Ruby implementation is worth using, citing its block and GC problems. One commenter links it to ask whether a new RubyMotion release fixes those issues.

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.

Personal site of Josh Symonds - software engineer, consultant, and creator

Most-linked posts?

  1. Existing Rails API Solutions Suck
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-02-22
  2. Why I'm Not Using RubyMotion in Production
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-26
  3. The Numbers Behind Consulting in 2014
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. duaneb · 2013-07-23
    Do the GC changes address the problems outlined here?: http://joshsymonds.com/blog/2013/06/26/why-im-not-using-ruby... EDIT: Looks like it, great! :D (Also: it was the block changes, not GC changes).

    Comment linking /blog/2013/06/26/why-im-not-using-rubymotion-in-production/

    on “New in RubyMotion: Blocks Rewrite, Retain Cycle Detection, Better Crash Reports”
  2. Veraticus · 2013-06-26

    Submitted Why I'm Not Using RubyMotion in Production as a story · 146 points

    HN discussion
  3. Veraticus · 2014-01-14

    Submitted Rails Consulting for Fun and Profit as a story · 121 points

    HN discussion
  4. Veraticus · 2012-05-04

    Submitted Why RubyMotion Is Better Than Objective-C as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  5. Veraticus · 2013-11-03

    Submitted What Makes a Good Programmer Good? as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  6. Veraticus · 2013-03-19

    Submitted Why I'm Not Applying to 37signals (But Why You Should) as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  7. Veraticus · 2014-06-15

    Submitted Your Job Is To Code as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  8. Veraticus · 2012-06-21

    Submitted How Not to Apply for a Job as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Veraticus · 2014-07-29

    Submitted How to Turn Yourself Into a Programmer as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. niallsmart · 2013-05-16

    Submitted Existing Rails API Solutions Suck as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Veraticus · 2014-01-16

    Submitted Programming the New Family Business as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. scmoore · 2015-06-08

    Submitted The Numbers Behind Consulting in 2014 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. edward · 2015-05-19

    Submitted Shell Awesomeness with Prezto as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Veraticus · 2015-02-05

    Submitted Chef Cookbook Continuous Integration as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Veraticus · 2013-06-11

    Submitted IOS 7: Impressions & Thoughts as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Veraticus · 2013-06-11

    Submitted Big Brother Is Both Savvy and Incompetent as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Veraticus · 2013-06-03

    Submitted Gistify 1.1.0: Visibility & Accounts as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Veraticus · 2013-05-29

    Submitted Gistify: A Mac App for Easy Gists as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Veraticus · 2013-02-22

    Submitted Existing Rails API Solutions Suck as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Veraticus · 2012-09-01

    Submitted Show HN: Kinotify, a RubyMotion app for movie release notifications as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Veraticus · 2026-08-04

    Submitted I wasted four months waiting for Anthropic to review my MCP as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Veraticus · 2026-03-29

    Submitted Dashboards Are Already Dead as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Veraticus · 2015-01-26

    Submitted The Numbers Behind Consulting in 2014 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Veraticus · 2013-12-26

    Submitted Cryptolalia, for creating Cicada 3301 ciphertext puzzles as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Veraticus · 2013-08-07

    Submitted RubyMotion Update: One Month Later as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. vinnyglennon · 2013-06-24

    Submitted Nice summary of Rails Api Options as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Veraticus · 2013-04-30

    Submitted Why Your Startup Is Failing (and How to Fix It) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Veraticus · 2013-04-23

    Submitted The Perils of Overengineering as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. aaronbrethorst · 2012-12-18

    Submitted Making your Web Pages Ridiculously Fast (Without Breaking Them) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. aaronbrethorst · 2012-06-18

    Submitted Designing Sites for Users as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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