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Pat Allan
Personal blog · freelancing-gods.comprogrammingcareerweb
Pat Allan writes Freelancing Gods, a personal blog at freelancing-gods.com about programming, career and web. Since 2009, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Freelancing Tips via Rails Camp 4”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts by Pat Allan on freelancing and Ruby, including a follow-up on the future of Ruby and California tech culture. One commenter linked the follow-up and called it the best.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Freelancing Tips via Rails Camp 42 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-01-02
What Hacker News says?
Pat Allan had the best follow up, which kicked off some interesting discussion. You can find it here: http://freelancing-gods.com/posts/future_ruby_and_california...
Comment linking /posts/future_ruby_and_californian_conflict
on “Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology”Submitted Pat's Guide to Running Events as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Versioning Rails APIs with Accept Headers as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Freelancing Tips via Rails Camp 4 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Is Bad as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technology and (In)Humanity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Freelancing Tips via Rails Camp 4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Test Rails Engines in Isolation with Combustion as a story · 1 points
HN discussion