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Matt Wright

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Matt Wright's personal blog at mattupstate.com covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “How I Structure My Flask Applications”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2013–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Matt Wright's blog on Python and Flask. HN readers link his posts on structuring Flask and Python projects and on avoiding import side-effects, and recommend it as a Flask learning resource.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Matt 'Upstate' Wright (He/him). Engineering team leader. Open source author and contributor. Aging hardcore punk enthusiast. LFC supporter.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How I Structure My Flask Applications
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-06-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. Flask Security isn't my work, that would be Matt Wright [1], though coincidentally I did link to an article by Matt on here a few days ago. http://mattupstate.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Erlang/OTP 21's new logger”
  2. Submitted How I Structure My Flask Applications as a story · 266 points

    HN discussion
  3. Location: New York City Remote: Sure, but not required Willing to relocate: no Technologies: See website Resume/CV: https://mattupstate.com Email: hello at mattupstate dot com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)”
  4. Submitted How I Structure My Flask Application as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. TronPaul_ · 2014-04-05Recommends
    I started running into that problem quickly as well. One of the examples I crib off of is Overholt ( http://mattupstate.com/python/2013/06/26/how-i-structure-my-... ). It still feels strange in places, but it's the best I've seen so far.

    Comment linking /python/2013/06/26/how-i-structure-my-flask-applications.html

    on “Say “no” to import side‐effects in Python”
  6. Submitted Deploying Flask Apps with Ubuntu, Ansible, Nginx, Supervisor and uWSGI as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. drcongo · 2018-11-19Recommends
    Personally I much prefer the lack of magic in Flask and would far rather make a crud app in Flask than Django. Whenever I have to use Django I'm endlessly frustrated by the fact that everything is so abstracted and there's so much magic that most of my stack traces show only ~30 lines of Django internals and none of my own code. Another (old but still excellent) resource for anyone learning Flask: http://mattupstate…

    Comment linking /blog/how-i-structure-my-flask-applications/

    on “The Flask Mega-Tutorial (2012)”
  8. Submitted Automating Vault on Kubernetes in Your Local Development Environment as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. I am still trying to wrap my head around microservers and maybe someone can help me. Say we are building a blog platform. 1. Would it be separated into the following services: user, post, and comments? 2. If I was designing this in flask or django, would each service be running on localhost with different ports, e.g. user is localhost:8080, post is localhost:8081, etc? For my personal flask project, I am currently f…

    Comment linking /python/2013/06/26/how-i-structure-my-flask-applications.html

    on “Microservices for the Grumpy Neckbeard”
  10. Submitted Deploying a Consul cluster in a VPC as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. superchan · 2013-11-10Recommends
    Try these for starters: http://mattupstate.com/python/2013/06/26/how-i-structure-my-... http://maximebf.com/blog/2012/11/getting-bigger-with-flask/#... https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/wiki/Large-app-how-to

    Comment linking /python/2013/06/26/how-i-structure-my-flask-applications.html

    on “Flaskr: Intro to Flask, Test-Driven Development, and jQuery”

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