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Neil Middleton

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Neil Middleton's personal blog at neilmiddleton.com covers programming and web. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Why Heroku is a game changer”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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25mentions?
7HN people?
2009–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

One commenter links an unsanitised original version of a post about writing being hard, titled "Writing is hard, so do it". The comment does not assess the 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.

The author on HN?

neilmiddleton · 537 karma · member since 2011

http://www.neilmiddleton.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why Heroku is a game changer
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-08
  2. Writing is hard, so do it
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-08
  3. Heroku / Asset Pipeline FAQ
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. Original unsanitised version here: http://neilmiddleton.com/writing-is-hard-do-it/

    Comment linking /writing-is-hard-do-it/

    on “Writing is hard, so do it”
  2. Submitted Users don’t want rich as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Continuous deployment with Heroku as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Deploying to Heroku with Travis CI as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Doing DNS right on Heroku as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The composability of buildpacks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Developing with an environment as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Writing is hard, so do it as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted We need more conferences aimed at beginners as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Using Rack::Timeout with Heroku as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Describing Time as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Creating custom image processors with Dragonfly as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted The wonders of hStore as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Why Heroku is a game changer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Why Heroku is a game changer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Getting more from your Heroku dynos as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted We got spotted by the Google Street View Car as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Introducing attr_secure for Rails as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Describing time as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Why only US East? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Heroku / Asset Pipeline FAQ as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Heroku / Asset Pipeline FAQ as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Internationalisation with Rails 3 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted The dangers of A-records and Heroku as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted All change for Flash as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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