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litanyagainstfear.com
Personal blog · litanyagainstfear.com/blogprogramming
litanyagainstfear.com is a personal blog at litanyagainstfear.com about programming. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link a 2009 post on forking Ruby gems and using them on servers, and cite it again when discussing gem sources and trust via signing. Both comments only cite the post; none 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.
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Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2009/10/09/on-gem-forking/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-11
What Hacker News says?
That's really a bummer... I loved being able to fork a ruby lib, make some changes and have the gem available for any servers I used... You still can. See: http://litanyagainstfear.com/blog/2009/10/09/on-gem-forking/
Comment linking /blog/2009/10/09/on-gem-forking/
on “GitHub discontinues building gems”Submitted The Rails Module (in Rails 3) as a story · 57 points
HN discussionTo be honest, the same problem exists for RubyForge, since you could build/release a gem with a user name prefix and it doesn't check. The short answer is: be explicit with what source you're looking at, and start looking into gem signing/certs since it's the way we can trust gems. More info here: http://litanyagainstfear.com/blog/2009/10/09/on-gem-forking/ *Edit: Looks like rufo already cleared this up...thanks man!
Comment linking /blog/2009/10/09/on-gem-forking/
on “Gemcutter.org as a RubyGem source scares me”Submitted Gem Bundler is the Future as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted RailsConf 2009 Notes and Liveblogging as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Load Rails conditionally with Rack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What killed Smalltalk and could it kill Ruby? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Gem Forking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Railsconf 2009 Keynote Summary as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub Rebase #1 as a story · 1 points
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