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Matt Aimonetti
Personal blog · matt.aimonetti.net/posts · on HN as mattettiprogrammingcareerweb
Matt Aimonetti's personal blog at matt.aimonetti.net covers programming, career and web. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “What technology should your startup use?”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Matt Aimonetti's 2013 post on choosing technology for a startup or full-stack web project, which overviews the popular options. Comments cite it as a resource for newcomers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What technology should your startup use?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-27
- Engineers suck at finding the right jobs2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-11-15
- Inspecting Rails 4 Using Ruby 2.02 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-06
- Solving Real Time Collaboration Using Eventual Consistency2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-09
What Hacker News says?
☆ Santa Monica, CA (L.A) - Web developer (mainly Go) ☆ Santa Monica, CA (L.A) - Objective-C/Swift developer ☆ Santa Monica, CA (L.A) - .Net developer Splice.com : we treat music like source code. Platform for music creators to backup, collaborate and distribute their music. We interface directly with the DAWs and track music like source code (version control for session files and dependencies, analysis etc..) VC bac…
Comment linking /posts/2012/11/14/engineers-suck-at-finding-right-jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)”Submitted Engineers suck at finding the right jobs as a story · 329 points
HN discussionAdding more context: Fluid uses a mix of CRDT + OT to maintain state across multiple clients. I wrote a quick high level explanation of how Fluid uses eventual consistency and why it matters for real time collaboration: https://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2020-09-solving-real-time-c...
Comment linking /posts/2020-09-solving-real-time-collaboration-using-eventual-consistency/
on “Fluid framework, for building distributed, real-time collaborative web apps”Submitted A Practical guide to StatsD/Graphite monitoring as a story · 136 points
HN discussionThis comment[0] interested me. I've never exposed to erlang. Can someone please explain this a bit to me why she said only erlang can do concurrency? [0]: http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2013/08/27/what-technology-s...
Comment linking /posts/2013/08/27/what-technology-should-my-startup-use/
on “What technology should your startup use?”Submitted Go, robots and refactoring as a story · 98 points
HN discussionI used Lambda with mRuby, the embeddable version of the language. The (subset of) Ruby code is compiled into a bytecode that is linked to a C program that is run in Lambda and interprets it. The downside is that you either write all your Ruby code or use the few Ruby gems that work in mRuby. They must also be compiled and linked to the main C program. https://github.com/mruby/mruby A getting started from 2012 https:…
Comment linking /posts/2012/04/25/getting-started-with-mruby/
on “Traveling Ruby: self-contained, portable Ruby binaries”Submitted What technology should your startup use? as a story · 83 points
HN discussionWhat type of project do you want to work on? What type of company do you want to work for? Here's an article that overviews a lot of he most popular options: http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2013/08/27/what-technology-s... I would personally recommend Node.js (with Express.js). I have found it easy to learn and I feel the community that supports it is great as well.
Comment linking /posts/2013/08/27/what-technology-should-my-startup-use/
on “Fullstack web dev?”Submitted Mruby and MobiRuby as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rethinking web API development as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharing Rails Sessions With Non-Ruby Apps as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting started with mruby as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Real life concurrency in Go as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Golang multipart file upload example as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inspecting Rails 4 Using Ruby 2.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted RubyMotion Review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving Real Time Collaboration Using Eventual Consistency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inspecting Rails 4 using Ruby 2.0 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's Pattern Matching (in Scala) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning From Rails' Failures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineers Suck at Finding the Right Jobs (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Technology Should My Startup Use? as a story · 1 points
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