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Nithin Bekal
Personal blog · nithinbekal.com · on HN as nithinbekalprogramming
Nithin Bekal's personal blog at nithinbekal.com covers programming. Since 2010, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “What's New in Ruby 3.4”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Nithin Bekal's blog covers Ruby, Rails and Phoenix/Elixir. HN commenters link posts on Ruby 3.x releases, Ruby shell and awk-style one-liners, the flip-flop operator, and Phoenix authentication.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nithin Bekal's blog about programming - Ruby, Rails, Vim, Elixir.
Most-linked posts?
- What's New in Ruby 3.42 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-12-18
- What's New in Ruby 4.02 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-17
- What's new in Rails 5?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-04
- Flip Flop Operator in Ruby (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-30
- Flip Flop Operator in Ruby2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-24
- What's New in Ruby 3.32 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-18
- What's New in Ruby 3.22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-11
What Hacker News says?
I haven't done much with Phoenix but I think there are a few libraries out there. I think addict is the front runner: https://github.com/trenpixster/addict https://github.com/opendrops/passport Also here's a nice blog post that was in the elixir newsletter that may help! http://nithinbekal.com/posts/phoenix-authentication/
Comment linking /posts/phoenix-authentication/
on “Phoenix 1.0”Submitted What's new in Ruby 3.1? as a story · 174 points
HN discussionThe replacement for ActiveRecord::Base in Rails 5. All your models will inherit from ApplicationRecord. See http://nithinbekal.com/posts/rails-5-features/
Comment linking /posts/rails-5-features/
on “The Rails Doctrine”Submitted Abstract Methods and NotImplementedError in Ruby as a story · 52 points
HN discussionOne approach that has worked for me so far is: 1) find out if the runtime/framework is supported but Heroku or if there are any buildpacks available. 2) spin up a Dokku instance using Vagrant for local development and testing 3) deploy to a live Dokku server If/when I encounter any issues I add Heroku or Dokku to my search query and 9 times out of 10 I’ll find an answer to my issue. Else I just dig into the Dokku do…
Comment linking /posts/dokku-phoenix-deploy/
on “How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016)”Submitted Long exposure images from videos as a story · 23 points
HN discussionFwiw ruby borrows heavily from perl, and can be coaxed into serving as a driver for other commands. See eg: http://ibmsystemsmag.com/aix/tipstechniques/systemsmanagemen... https://redpanthers.co/different-ways-to-run-shell-commands-... Perl/awk like one-liner/filters in ruby: http://reference.jumpingmonkey.org/programming_languages/rub... https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-sed-awk/ Of note is that ruby allows "backt…
Comment linking /posts/ruby-sed-awk/
on “I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash”Submitted What's New in Ruby 4.0 as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSee also: https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-3-4/
Comment linking /posts/ruby-3-4/
on “Ruby 3.4 Highlights”Submitted A Simple To-do List App Using HTML5 and local storage as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHere's some of my tips for a handwritten HTML site, since the author wished more tips existed: - consider using an HTML boilerplate template like this one if you don't know where to start: https://www.matuzo.at/blog/html-boilerplate/ - consider using a CSS template, or a CSS reset, if you don't know where to start with styling. Pico CSS is a good drop-in: https://picocss.com/ . Frontend devs always blog about their…
Comment linking /posts/vim-search-replace/
on “Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS”Submitted Guide to writing Ruby gems as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe flip-flop operator, I think: https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-flip-flop/
Comment linking /posts/ruby-flip-flop/
on “The case for cities where you’re a sensor, not a thing to be sensed”Submitted What's New in Ruby 4.0 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBlog: https://nithinbekal.com/ Photography: https://photos.nithinbekal.com/ Directory of free technical books: https://devlibrary.org/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted What's New in Ruby 3.3 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://nithinbekal.com/ My random notes about programming, primarily about Ruby and Rails. Built with Jekyll, and hosted on Github pages. Source can be found here: https://github.com/nithinbekal/nithinbekal.github.io/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Flip Flop Operator in Ruby as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI started writing my blog as a devlog for myself refer to later, and didn't expect anyone else to care. However, it eventually let to a job interview that in turn led to my current job. The team I joined worked on a Ruby codebase, and there were people with background in other languages, where method visibility worked differently. A short post I wrote [1] was being shared around in the team, and the manager decided…
Comment linking /posts/ruby-protected-methods/
on “Nobody cares about your blog”Submitted Flip Flop Operator in Ruby as a story · 5 points
HN discussionRuby 3.2 comes with YJIT which is a new JIT compiler Ruby totally rewritten in rust. Also native Ruby extensions can now be written in rust in addition to C. So the ecosystem here lets you write C, Rust or Ruby. https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-3-2/
Comment linking /posts/ruby-3-2/
on “Peplum: F/OSS Parallel Computing and Supercomputing with Ruby Infrastructure”Submitted Review of The Rails 3 Way as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Numeric operations on value objects in Ruby as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to create a Google Chrome extension as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop memoizing Hash lookups in Ruby as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's New in Ruby 3.4 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Ruby instead of sed and awk as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tabs vs spaces for indentation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted SpellingBee - A spelling corrector library for ruby as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's New in Ruby 4.0 as a story · 2 points
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