Michael Friis

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Michael Friis's personal blog at friism.com covers programming and business. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Running .NET on Heroku”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?

3HN people?

2009–2020first – last linked?

Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2014

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Why HN links it

Only one comment, in a Delphi compiler thread, appears here. It lists Danish and Canadian creators of programming languages and tools, and does not mention or discuss this blog's writing.

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This week I moved the networking in our condo from ASUS AiMesh to Ubiquiti UniFi, and UniFi is a lot better. Some observations: For context, we live in a rambling 2000 sqft victorian condo in a dense neighborhood in San Francisco with lots of other WiFi transmitters close by. The walls are lath-and-

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friism · 2,745 karma · member since 2008

https://friism.com/ friism@gmail.com

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Most-linked posts?

Running .NET on Heroku
2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-26

What Hacker News says?

friism · 2014-05-13
> I wonder whether we will be seeing a .NET web server for mac and linux. The Mono guys already [have such a server][1], although I'm really looking forward to be able to use the Microsoft one to run on Linux and Mono. [1]: http://friism.com/running-net-on-heroku
Comment linking /running-net-on-heroku
on “Introducing ASP.NET vNext”
friism · 2014-02-19
Submitted Running .NET apps in Docker containers as a story · 56 points
HN discussion
wenc · 2020-10-10
Danes have been disproportionately successful at creating high impact languages and tools. (Canadians too) Here’s a list. Anders Hejlsberg (came up with Turbo Pascal, lead architect for C#) Bjarne Stoustrup (came up with C++) David Heinemeier Hansson (created Ruby on Rails) Lars Bak (created V8 Javascript VM for Google Chrome) Peter Naur (Turing Award winner, contributed to ALGOL 60) Rasmus Lerdorf (created PHP, bor…
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on “Delphi 2 can compile large .pas files at 1.2M lines per second”
friism · 2010-06-02
Submitted Google sampled my voice and all I got was this lousy T-shirt as a story · 23 points
HN discussion
friism · 2014-02-26
You can run OWIN apps self-hosted on Mono/*nix. Here's my write-up for doing that on Heroku: http://friism.com/running-owin-katana-apps-on-heroku
Comment linking /running-owin-katana-apps-on-heroku
on “Mono 3.2.7 is out”
friism · 2014-01-16
Submitted Faster ASP.NET web apps with WebP images as a story · 4 points
HN discussion
friism · 2013-08-20
I've got a buildpack working for running ASP.NET apps (including MVC, and also straight-up .NET apps) on Heroku, running on Mono and Linux: http://friism.com/running-net-on-heroku You can even experiment with the new OWIN/Katana stuff if you like: http://friism.com/running-owin-katana-apps-on-heroku
Comment linking /running-owin-katana-apps-on-heroku
on “Where to host .NET applications?”
friism · 2009-03-09
Submitted Found your starup in Hong Kong? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
johns · 2013-07-26
Submitted Running .NET on Heroku as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
friism · 2010-05-30
Submitted Screen scraping flight data from checkmytrip.com as a story · 1 points
HN discussion

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