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Luke Kanies
Personal blog · madstop.comprogrammingsystems
Luke Kanies's personal blog at madstop.com covers programming and systems. Since 2007, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Ruby has a distribution problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a disagreement in a Pinax thread about PHP versus Django, arguing PHP's weakness is a lack of reusable libraries. It says nothing about the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Ruby has a distribution problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-06
What Hacker News says?
I couldn't disagree more with the idea that it's embarrassing that PHP apps tend to run with just a simple untar and Django projects don't. For me, this highlights some of the weaknesses of PHP - that there is a lack of pre-built libraries out there, and the difficulties in reusing code. When I first started using PHP god knows how long ago (IIRC PHP 4 was still in beta), one of the things that shocked me was that t…
Comment linking /ruby/ruby_has_a_distribution_problem.html
on “Pinax, rapid web-app development on top of django / python”Submitted Ruby has a distribution problem as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does News.YC think of distributed version control? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Golden Image or Foil Ball? (VM maintenance issues) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Crab's Madstop (Development books) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I’m keeping my Google Phone as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
