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Justin Carmony

Personal blog · justincarmony.com/blogprogrammingweb

Justin Carmony's personal blog at justincarmony.com covers programming and web. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “PHP Design - Biggest Database Oversights”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2008–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2008

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Justin Carmony's posts on PHP with nginx and WordPress performance, and on learning PHP. The comments only cite them as references and do not judge the writing.

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.

Justin Carmony — engineering leadership, web development, and assorted opinions.

Most-linked posts?

  1. PHP Design - Biggest Database Oversights
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-11-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. Isn't there a known fix for this for like a year or so? ( http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2011/01/24/php-nginx-and-o... )

    Comment linking /blog/2011/01/24/php-nginx-and-output-flushing/

    on “Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx”
  2. Submitted PHP Design - Biggest Database Oversights as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  3. First of all: Programming is learned by practicing, get off HN, books and just do it. If you are a person who can master a practical subject (typing code) by just reading specifications, I'd recommend stop using PHP and maybe switch to a more thoretical language; LISP, prolog, mathematica why not? If you are a "mechanic" type of person why learn by experience, just start programming, don't worry, you'll learn! I rec…

    Comment linking /blog/2008/10/25/php-design-biggest-database-oversights/

    on “Ask HN: What resources did you use to learn PHP?”
  4. Submitted OS X Lion /etc/hosts bugs & DNS Resolution as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Thoughts on Learning React and Flux as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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