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Noel Rappin

Personal blog · noelrappin.com/blogprogramming

Noel Rappin's personal blog at noelrappin.com covers programming. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “What About Static Typing in Ruby?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.

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2012–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2024

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Most-linked posts?

  1. What About Static Typing in Ruby?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-17
  2. Better Know a Ruby Thing: Methods and Access Control (Part 1)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-30
  3. Better Know a Ruby Thing: On the Use of Private Methods
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-27
  4. Ruby and Its Neighbors: Perl
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk as a story · 229 points

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  2. Submitted Better Know a Ruby Thing: Singleton Classes as a story · 130 points

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  3. Submitted Ruby and Its Neighbors: Lisp as a story · 32 points

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  4. Submitted Ruby and Its Neighbors: Perl as a story · 8 points

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  5. Submitted Ruby and Its Neighbors: Perl as a story · 4 points

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  6. Submitted Better Know a Ruby Thing: Method Lookup as a story · 4 points

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  7. Submitted What About Static Typing in Ruby? as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted Better Know a Ruby Thing: On the Use of Private Methods as a story · 4 points

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  9. Submitted What About Static Typing in Ruby? as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted Rails, Objects, Tests, and Other Useful Things as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted Better Know a Ruby Thing: On the Use of Private Methods as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Better Know a Ruby Thing: Methods and Access Control (Part 1) as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Rails 7 and JavaScript as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Functions that return functions are the luckiest functions in the world as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Master Time and Space with JavaScript as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Better Know a Ruby Thing: Methods and Access Control (Part 1) as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted A Brief Hello to Hotwire and Turbo (2020) as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted New Beta Book on Ember.js Available as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted New Beta book on Backbone.js with Rails integration as a story · 1 points

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