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majesticseacreature.com is a personal blog at majesticseacreature.com about culture and economics. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this site for 'Ruby Best Practices', a book by Gregory Brown that is available as a free PDF, and for background on the Ruby Mendicant project and the Prawn PDF library.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Yes, I started Prawn via the "Ruby Mendicant" project: http://majesticseacreature.com/mendicant/ I'm still active in the project as a maintainer. But really, these days you have Brad Ediger, James Healy, and Daniel Nelson, along with about 60+ contributors to thank for where Prawn is heading. My job is mostly to sit around naming things, and warning people about the fragility of the early code I wrote. But we will h…
Comment linking /mendicant/
on “Ruby Best Practices (full book available for download)”Submitted Staying home for a change as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnother invaluable resource is 'Ruby Best Practices' by Gregory Brown. You can download the pdf for free ( http://majesticseacreature.com/rbp-book/pdfs/rbp_1-0.pdf ).
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on “Ruby Tips Part 4”Submitted The power of free beer as a story · 1 points
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