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Kevin Highwater
Personal blog · kevinkuchta.com · on HN as fishtoasterprogramming
Kevin Highwater's personal blog at kevinkuchta.com covers programming. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Building a url-shortener with Lambda – JUST Lambda”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Building a url-shortener with Lambda – JUST Lambda4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-16
- Disguising Ruby as JavaScript3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-07-21
What Hacker News says?
Haha, I’m glad to see people enjoy this (author here)! If you like this sort of thing, some other terrible proof-of-concepts I’ve done: A ruby dsl that’s indistinguishable from JavaScript. http://kevinkuchta.com/_site/2017/07/disguising-ruby-as-java... ^ and in talk form: http://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2018-ruby-is-the-best-jav... A url-shortener using AWS lambda - JUST lambda. No data store. http://kevinkuchta.…
Comment linking /_site/2018/03/lambda-only-url-shortener/
on “Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end”Submitted Down with Craftsmanship as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA URL shortener can be done with no database - I did it using only Lambda functions once, but I wouldn't recommend it. :) https://kevinkuchta.com/2018/03/lambda-only-url-shortener/
Comment linking /2018/03/lambda-only-url-shortener/
on “Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages”Submitted Building a url-shortener with just AWS Lambda as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://kevinkuchta.com/ - mostly silly projects that try to combine humor and "that shouldn't be possible" technical hacks.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Building a url-shortener with Lambda – JUST Lambda as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a url-shortener with Lambda – JUST Lambda as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scarr: S3 and Cloudfront and ACM and Route53 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disguising Ruby as JavaScript (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disguising Ruby as JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disguising Ruby as JavaScript (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing JavaScript in Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Use Time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startups are Rockets as a story · 1 points
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