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Matt Segal
Personal blog · mattsegal.dev · on HN as The_Amp_Walrusprogrammingweb
Matt Segal's personal blog at mattsegal.dev covers programming and web. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “A tour of Django server setups”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on how to read the Django documentation, describing a documentation structure they find straightforward to apply to their own docs.
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.
Matt's blog on backend web development
Most-linked posts?
- A tour of Django server setups3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-25
What Hacker News says?
I'm working with some researches on about ~40k lines of Python disease modelling code and these are the things that helped us becomes more productive: - tests (unit, smoke, acceptance) (eg. https://mattsegal.dev/alternate-test-styles.html , https://understandlegacycode.com/approval-tests/ ) - continuous integration (via GitHub actions eg: https://mattsegal.dev/pytest-on-github-actions.html ) - 10x performance improv…
Comment linking /cerberus-config-validation.html
on “Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular programming language”Submitted How I hunt down and fix errors in production as a story · 64 points
HN discussionLocation: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AI/LLMs, Django, FastAPI, Pandas, React/TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres Résumé/CV: https://mattsegal.github.io/resume/ Email: mattdsegal@gmail.com I'm a Melbourne-based software dev with 9 years of experience. I've worked all over the stack: on backend, frontend, DevOps and scientific computing. I'm looking to work with an organise…
Comment linking /devops-academic-research.html
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)”Submitted DevOps in Academic Research as a story · 41 points
HN discussionNand 2 Tetris: https://www.nand2tetris.org/ In which you, more or less, build a computer from scratch. The course takes you through 12 projects, about 1 week each, where you incrementally build: a CPU a RAM chip a full von Neumann computer an assembly language a virtual machine a high-level language an operating system ... using NAND gates. All of this is done on your computer using tools provided by the course. Onc…
Comment linking /nand-to-tetris.html
on “Ask HN: Which MOOCs in Math/CS are worth still worth taking in 2022?”Submitted My (free) Django monitoring stack for 2022 as a story · 16 points
HN discussionHesitant though I am to recommend an approach to structuring documentation which needs its own documentation, the structure followed by the Django docs is straightforward to apply: https://mattsegal.dev/how-to-read-django-docs.html
Comment linking /how-to-read-django-docs.html
on “The Surprising Power of Documentation”Submitted There's no one right way to test your code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tour of Django Server Setups as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Setup Django with React as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A breakdown of how Nginx is configured with Django as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A tour of Django server setups as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A tour of Django server setups as a story · 1 points
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