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Moncef Belyamani
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Moncef Belyamani's personal blog at moncefbelyamani.com covers programming and career. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Moncef Belyamani's posts on setting up a Rails development environment on a Mac (Xcode, Homebrew, Git, RVM) and on creating bash aliases. Comments cite them as setup references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Moncef Belyamani writes guides to help you become a more confident coder.
What Hacker News says?
probably just an alias in .bash_profile, here's the first thing I found in google: https://www.moncefbelyamani.com/create-aliases-in-bash-profi...
Comment linking /create-aliases-in-bash-profile-to-assign-shortcuts-for-common-terminal-commands/
on “Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories”Submitted I made $15k so far helping people fix Ruby issues on Mac as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis looks fantastic. I'm currently writing my first practical Rails app and using APIs for the first time (the Tumblr API specifically). The app works, but I need to move the API calls to a background process and I haven't been able to get that to work yet. Does your book cover background processes? Also, I wanted to let you know about my detailed and thorough tutorial for installing Xcode, Homebrew, Git, RVM and R…
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on “The Bastards Book of Ruby”Submitted How to install & configure Octopress on a Mac and host it on Amazon S3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy tutorial ( http://www.moncefbelyamani.com/how-to-install-xcode-homebrew... ) is mentioned in the article, and at the time I wrote it (back in March), those were the steps necessary to install all of those tools. I published it to help others avoid the pain I went through, and to share what I've learned so far. Given that it has had over 15,000 views so far (mostly search traffic), I'd say it's doing its job. A fe…
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on “Installing Rails on a Mac Shouldn't Be As Hard As It Is”Submitted Characters That Could Bring Down Your Rails App as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: iOS Automated Testing With Calabash, Cucumber, and Ruby as a story · 1 points
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