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Nate Berkopec

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Nate Berkopec's personal blog at nateberkopec.com covers programming and web. Since 2011, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-23, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 18 in 2015

The blog of Nate Berkopec, Ruby on Rails programmer.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails
    4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-03-15
  2. 37signals Isn't Smarter Than You, but They Are Different
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-27
  3. How to Get a Computer Science Degree in a Warzone
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-08-10
  4. Action Cable – Friend or Foe?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-30
  5. 100ms to Glass with Rails and Turbolinks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-01
  6. Rack-Mini-profiler – The Secret Weapon of Ruby and Rails Speed
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-29
  7. Scaling Ruby Apps to 1000 Requests per Minute
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-29
  8. 100ms to Glass with Rails 5 and Turbolinks 3
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-28
  9. I'm Glad I Failed in Front of Millions on Shark Tank
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-04
  10. Hacking Head Tags for Speed and Profit
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. wonder_er · 2021-02-23
    This is super cool! I've only recently discovered that Markdown has footnotes, and I've gone to down adding footnotes everywhere. I use Jekyll + markdown on my website, and I now have lots of fun adding footnotes to my writing. I added a "footnote tutorial" for readers on https://josh.works/turing-backend-prep-01-intro#why-this-rub... , to help them learn how to navigate the footnotes. I _love_ your library, and I l…

    Comment linking /blog/2017/03/10/how-i-made-self-publishing-about-ruby-on-rails.html

    on “Total Cookie Protection”
  2. nateberkopec · 2015-10-07

    Submitted A Guide to Fast Page Loads as a story · 597 points

    HN discussion
  3. some1else · 2015-10-07
    For anyone that's interested, here's a guide on scaling Ruby servers to 1000RPM, written by the same author: http://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/07/29/scaling-ruby-apps-to-... .

    Comment linking /2015/07/29/scaling-ruby-apps-to-1000-rpm.html

    on “A Guide to Fast Page Loads”
  4. nateberkopec · 2017-03-15

    Submitted How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails as a story · 539 points

    HN discussion
  5. jsmith0295 · 2016-06-01
    The new TurboLinks is one of the best things about Rails 5, though. You can basically get UX comparable to an SPA with mostly server code. As for coffeescript, you can just remove the gem and it'll use regular JS. https://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/05/27/100-ms-to-glass-with...

    Comment linking /2015/05/27/100-ms-to-glass-with-rails-and-turbolinks.html

    on “Drop jQuery as a dependency from Rails”
  6. nateberkopec · 2015-07-15

    Submitted A Complete Guide to Rails Caching as a story · 171 points

    HN discussion
  7. ploggingdev · 2017-03-27
    No. Getting page views for well written and original content (especially tech topics) is not hard, in fact there is a severe dearth of good technical writing. How often you post, how many sharing options you provide should not be what you optimize for. Optimize for writing original, well informed content that shows domain expertise. Such content has no problem attracting an audience. But the problem with writing suc…

    Comment linking /blog/2017/03/10/how-i-made-self-publishing-about-ruby-on-rails.html

    on “Ask HN: Has attracting a blog audience become harder?”
  8. rtcoms · 2016-03-07

    Submitted How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster as a story · 159 points

    HN discussion
  9. geoffroy · 2016-01-01
    A very good article comparing SSE, Websockets, polling, long polling was posted a few months ago, still relevant : https://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/09/30/action-cable.html

    Comment linking /2015/09/30/action-cable.html

    on “WebSockets: caution required”
  10. aaronbrethorst · 2016-01-01

    Submitted Rack-Mini-profiler – The Secret Weapon of Ruby and Rails Speed as a story · 90 points

    HN discussion
  11. schneems · 2015-08-07
    Whooops responded with old account. If you run `$ env RAILS_ENV=production rake middleware` you'll see that your final app that gets mounted is actually the "routes" of your app. run CodeTriage::Application.routes Essentially that RouteSet#call wraps every piece of code you've ever written for your app. I think that newrelic is reporting that is the entry point to your app code which makes sense that it takes the lo…

    Comment linking /2015/08/05/rack-mini-profiler-the-secret-weapon.html

    on “Patching Rails Performance”
  12. nateberkopec · 2011-09-11

    Submitted Are you solving a NASA problem or a LEGO problem? as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  13. a-saleh · 2018-11-15
    I would like to go on a similar path one day, with following differences: * not quitting a job, change job, negotiate higher pay, long weekends (done ;) * figure out what side project I actually want to pour myself into Based on what I hear, B2B is easier than B2C, and info-products (book/course/e.t.c.) are easier than SaaS. Bonus points if the problem solved by the course could be turned into a SaaS later on. After…

    Comment linking /blog/2017/03/10/how-i-made-self-publishing-about-ruby-on-rails.html

    on “Ask HN: How to bootstrap my own business?”
  14. vbsteven · 2015-10-22

    Submitted Hacking Head Tags for Speed and Profit as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  15. a-saleh · 2018-05-29
    I am of two minds. First, if you want to earn money, choose the stack you know best already. Figuring out how to do business will probably be tricky enough. Talk to your prospects. Maybe start consulting first, and then convert recuring painpoint of your customers to a product. I have seen an advice to write a book/guide before you start with something that requires maintainance and few success stories about that [1…

    Comment linking /blog/2017/03/10/how-i-made-self-publishing-about-ruby-on-rails.html

    on “Ask HN: Which tool stack do you use to build a web based SaaS app”
  16. nateberkopec · 2016-01-07

    Submitted What HTTP/2 Means for Ruby Developers as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  17. nateberkopec · 2015-07-22

    Submitted Secrets to Speedy Ruby Apps on Heroku as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  18. nateberkopec · 2017-08-10

    Submitted How to Get a Computer Science Degree in a Warzone as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  19. nateberkopec · 2015-07-29

    Submitted Scaling Ruby Apps to 1000 Requests per Minute as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  20. nateberkopec · 2015-05-28

    Submitted 100ms to Glass with Rails 5 and Turbolinks 3 as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  21. nateberkopec · 2011-09-23

    Submitted Dont have a startup that's "built to fund" as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  22. yanis_t · 2015-07-29

    Submitted Rack-Mini-profiler – The Secret Weapon of Ruby and Rails Speed as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  23. nateberkopec · 2011-06-14

    Submitted Startup founders: stop asking questions as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  24. ferdy · 2016-01-08

    Submitted What HTTP/2 Means for Ruby Developers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  25. nateberkopec · 2015-11-30

    Submitted How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  26. nateberkopec · 2015-11-05

    Submitted Page Weight Doesn't Matter as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  27. nateberkopec · 2015-09-30

    Submitted Action Cable – Friend or Foe? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  28. nateberkopec · 2011-10-12

    Submitted Focus, and other startup broscience as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  29. mooreds · 2025-02-15

    Submitted Moving to More Ethical Software as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  30. nateberkopec · 2019-10-04

    Submitted I'm Glad I Failed in Front of Millions on Shark Tank as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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