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Michael Whalen
Personal blog · whalesalad.com · on HN as whalesaladprogrammingweb
Michael Whalen's personal blog at whalesalad.com covers programming and web. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “HTC Incredible vs. Nexus One”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a comparison of the HTC Incredible and Nexus One phones. The one commenter cites it to argue that a phone's usability is debatable, and praises the Peep Twitter client, not the post.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- HTC Incredible vs. Nexus One3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-05-08
- Doing Python Configuration Right (2019)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-09
What Hacker News says?
That’s how I do it. .env files are terrible if you’re using them with a language specific loader. The entire point of env is that it’s an abstraction you can manipulate externally. You can setup the env, then launch the program. It allows for runtime changes. https://whalesalad.com/blog/doing-python-configuration-right You can do it right without packages or external dependencies.
Comment linking /blog/doing-python-configuration-right
on “A guide to organizing settings in Django”Submitted Doing Python Configuration Right (2019) as a story · 92 points
HN discussionhttp://whalesalad.com/tasty Original price was $29, and there was a Premium variant for $49. Eventually the source that was pushing so many customers to my site stopped using the theme herself, and my traffic/sales died substantially. I figured, "It had a good run, time to move on) so lowered the price to capture more of the trailing edge.
Comment linking /tasty
on “Ask HN: Fastest route to $2000/mo. cashflow, worry free and conscience clear”Submitted HTC Incredible vs. Nexus One as a story · 36 points
HN discussionUsable is a bit debatable: http://whalesalad.com/blog/incredible-vs-nexus-one/ With that being said, Peep is fairly awesome. It's one of the best Twitter clients I've ever used.
Comment linking /blog/incredible-vs-nexus-one/
on “How LG Described its Windows 7 Phone to Anandtech”Submitted Doing Python Configuration Right as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe EVO is gigantic and those of us who have had the pleasure of using both Sense UI and the vanilla Android OS for an extended amount of time tend to agree that Sense is a bit too much. As I quoted in a previous article of mine, "It feels a lot like desktop Linux: unpolished, but covered in gloss." Link: http://whalesalad.com/blog/incredible-vs-nexus-one/
Comment linking /blog/incredible-vs-nexus-one/
on “In Death, Nexus One Does What It Couldn’t Do In Life: Sell”Submitted Reduce Rails Boot Time by 30-40% as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've made about $8,000 in sales selling my own theme modeled after the site I built for iJustine (theme link: http://whalesalad.com/tasty ) but that's just a teeny fraction of what you made, let alone Woo! I have more in the pipe... but there's only one of me =/
Comment linking /tasty
on “How WooThemes Quietly Built A $2 Million Per Year Business Selling Themes”Submitted TypeError: PainInTheAss object is not JSON serializable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are few scenarios where url shorteners come in handy... one being Twitter, and the other being times when you get an insanely long and unwieldily querystring moster like earlier when I was sending some directions from Google Maps to a friend. For the former [Twitter], I wrote about what I think could be a simple and effective solution on my blog. Enjoi - http://whalesalad.com/blog/how-twitter-can-eliminate-url…
Comment linking /blog/how-twitter-can-eliminate-url-shorteners/
on “URL Shorteners Make the Web Substantially Slower”Submitted Doing Python Configuration Right as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Redesigning the WMATA Status Display as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Instapaper's Acquisition as a story · 1 points
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