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Marty Haught

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Marty Haught's personal blog at martyhaught.com covers programming and career. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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4HN people?
2011–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Marty Haught's blog for posts on the Ruby community, such as a 2013 RubyConf call-for-proposals article. The comments do not judge the writing itself.

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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  1. That sounds just like the guy I met at RailsConf in 2006. We were starting Kongregate and I saw Ezra's talk on Rails Deployment. It was amazing and after talking to him I decided to try to use Engineyard for Kongregate hosting. We were one of their first five customers and unfortunately the distributed filesystem didn't work well for us. We switched off to our own colo but Ezra helped us at every step of the way, lo…

    Comment linking /articles/2006/06/25/railsconf-2006---day-two/

    on “Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died”
  2. Submitted Rock Mountain Ruby's stance on charging speakers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. I'm disappointed that some people are disappointed in Matz after just several tweets of his. It's hard to get your point across in 140 chars or less, let alone in text form. Edit: A word from the conf organizer: http://martyhaught.com/articles/2013/09/18/rubyconf-2013-cfp...

    Comment linking /articles/2013/09/18/rubyconf-2013-cfp-and-diversity/

    on “Twitter discussion between Matz and others re diversity and RubyConf”
  4. Submitted Developer Opportunities, the Rest of the Story (2012) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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