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Mehdi El Gueddari

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Mehdi El Gueddari's personal blog at mehdi.me covers programming and web. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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2014–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

Principal software engineer - Dublin/London

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MehdiEG · 404 karma · member since 2011

French guy living in London. Full-stack software developer with a sweet spot for backend work and distributed systems. Smartphone geek since the Sendo X days. Co-founder of Talk Irish and Shhmooze. I also love eating cheese, baking cakes and urban exploration. Blog: http://mehdi.me Everything else: http://about.me/mehdime

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  1. My anecdotal evidence: tried it when I was looking for my first contracting gig in Jan 2014. Got one serious lead (short-term contract for native iOS app development with immediate start required and a very tight deadline). Initial discussion by email went well. Moved onto a telephone conversation, which also went well. Although the deadline was tight, the project appeared to be well-managed and they seemed to know…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Where is it OK on the Net to say “I'm a developer looking for work?””
  2. Submitted Managing DbContext the right way with Entity Framework 6: an in-depth guide as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. I hadn't actually heard of Pelican until now but it looks like Ghost and Pelican aren't really comparable - they're two very different approaches to a blogging platform. Pelican looks more comparable to Jekyll. Personally I've just moved to Ghost and I have to say that I love it. I wrote a longish post [1] on all the blogging platforms I've tried and how Ghost compares. The post also explains why I didn't go with so…

    Comment linking /ghost-io-the-first-blogging-platform-that-makes-me-happy/

    on “Ask HN: Which platform do you prefer and why, Ghost or Pelican?”
  4. Submitted Managing DbContext the right way with Entity Framework 6: an in-depth guide as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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