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Justin Weiss
Personal blog · justinweiss.com · on HN as justinweissprogramming
Justin Weiss's personal blog at justinweiss.com covers programming. Since 2014, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's post on monkey patching in Ruby, cited as an example of a language's patching culture. The thread links it only as a reference, with no judgement of 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.
What Hacker News says?
Ruby has a culture around it too: https://www.justinweiss.com/articles/3-ways-to-monkey-patch-... And you can get some of the patching effect in any language with uniform function/method calls, though typically with a little more scoping and thus less ability to inflict unexpected side effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax
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on “BigInt Shipping in Firefox”Submitted Show HN: Practicing Rails, a book about learning Rails without being overwhelmed as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI've been writing posts about Rails on http://www.justinweiss.com for a little over a year now, and I've heard from so many people that are excited about Rails, that have bought all kinds of videos and tutorials and courses and bootcamps, but just can't build their own projects. So, I wrote a book to help. It's not so much a Rails tutorial as it is a guide to programming, project management, and motivation, using Ra…
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on “Show HN: Practicing Rails, a book about learning Rails without being overwhelmed”Submitted Show HN: Practicing Rails: Learn Rails without being overwhelmed as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHey! I actually posted a short snippet from the testing chapter to the blog yesterday: http://www.justinweiss.com/blog/2014/10/20/writing-better-te... That snippet is just a page or two, but should be a good representation of the kind of information in that chapter.
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on “Show HN: Practicing Rails: Learn Rails without being overwhelmed”Submitted How Much Time Does Rendering a Partial in Rails Really Take? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI just opened up beta book sales today! If you'd like to learn more about the reason behind the book, you can read more here: http://www.justinweiss.com/blog/2014/10/21/learn-rails-witho... And I'd be happy to do my best to answer any questions you have!
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on “Show HN: Practicing Rails: Learn Rails without being overwhelmed”Submitted When Edge Cases Poke Holes in Your Perfect Solution as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted How do gems work? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where are all the intermediate Rails resources? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted When is an ActiveRecord model too fat? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shaking off your TDD fatigue as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Each or else as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The lesser-known features in Rails 4.2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 ways to monkey-patch without making a mess as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Preload Rails Scopes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Much Testing Is Too Much? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to debug Ruby performance problems in production – Weissblog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails 5, Module#prepend, and the end of alias_method_chain as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Memoization Patterns in Ruby as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Untangle Spaghetti Code With a Simple Change of Perspective as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debug a stuck cache with a simple code change as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get from They†Re to They’re as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Steps to Fix Encoding Problems in Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby: How Do Gems Work? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Rails Sessions Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby – 3 Ways to Monkey-patch Without Making a Mess as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 ways to monkey-patch without making a mess as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How does Rails handle gems? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails internationalization: 3 quick tips and 1 crazy abuse as a story · 1 points
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