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Mikel Lindsaar
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Mikel Lindsaar's personal blog at lindsaar.net covers programming and career. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post about deleting 'omg' calls from Rails. The one comment discusses the contributor's motives and background rather than the post's writing.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
Let's see his angle for doing this: From the contributor's website ( http://lindsaar.net/about_mikel ): "I am a Scientologist and work full time as a volunteer for non profit organizations. It keeps me alive and I really enjoy helping people. You can see some of the work I do at the DrugFacts website." I find it funny that the probable lone Scientologist rails-contributer finds this more offensive (or at least annoy…
Comment linking /about_mikel
on “Deleting omgs out of Rails”Submitted Is Rails 3.0 a Game Changer? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Concrete Example of What it Means to "Spec Behavior, Not Implementation" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new protocol for social interaction as a story · 1 points
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