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on.code && such
Personal blog · ylan.segal-family.com/blogprogrammingcareer
on.code && such is a personal blog at ylan.segal-family.com about programming and career. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Ruby app server comparison of Unicorn and Puma, with comments applying it to Heroku and JRuby setups. Its numbers are questioned as possibly out of date.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on Software Engineering
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2013/05/20/unicorn-vs-puma-redux/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-02
What Hacker News says?
I did some performance analysis on puma vs unicorn vs thin a while ago: http://ylan.segal-family.com/blog/2012/08/20/better-performa... Although as noted in the comments, I neglected to run threadsafe! and should have probably tried rubinius or jruby. I have been meaning to redo. Take with a grain of salt
Comment linking /blog/2012/08/20/better-performance-on-heroku-thins-vs-unicorn-vs-puma/
on “Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails”Submitted Deployments with Schema Migrations as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAre these numbers still accurate? http://ylan.segal-family.com/blog/2013/05/20/unicorn-vs-puma... At any rate, Unicorn would still be better than the default Heroku server.
Comment linking /blog/2013/05/20/unicorn-vs-puma-redux/
on “Ruby Garbage Collection: Still Not Ready for Production”Submitted I Also Built a CLI Application in Crystal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPuma on JRuby, apparently. http://ylan.segal-family.com/blog/2013/05/20/unicorn-vs-puma...
Comment linking /blog/2013/05/20/unicorn-vs-puma-redux/
on “Github major service outage”Submitted I've Disallowed LLMs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://ylan.segal-family.com/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted I Review My Agents' Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forget Vim: Learn Your OS’ Shortcuts for Productivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tale Of jRuby Profiling as a story · 1 points
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