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Pure Danger Tech

Personal blog · tech.puredanger.com · on HN as puredangerprogramming

Pure Danger Tech is a personal blog at tech.puredanger.com about programming. Since 2008, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “Real world Clojure”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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55mentions?
24HN people?
2008–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 19 in 2010

The author on HN?

puredanger · 4,983 karma · member since 2010

Name: Alex Miller Tweets: @puredanger Blog: http://tech.puredanger.com Job: Nubank - Clojure dev I made: Strange Loop conference - https://thestrangeloop.com Nachos: yes, have some

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Real world Clojure
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-10-20
  2. Clojure and Testing
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. This is an example of Peter Norvig's spellchecker written with core.async by Stuart Sierra (@stuartsierra): https://gist.github.com/stuartsierra/5954022 This is an example of Rock Paper Scissors by Alex Miller (@puredanger): http://tech.puredanger.com/2013/07/10/rps-core-async/

    Comment linking /2013/07/10/rps-core-async/

    on “Communicating Sequential Processes”
  2. Submitted Real world Clojure as a story · 97 points

    HN discussion
  3. Sadly, one must investigate original sources, otherwise we get soundbite-knowledge. Here's a blogpost written by a core Clojure contributor that starts: "Occasionally I hear someone say that the Clojure community is against testing." ( http://tech.puredanger.com/2013/08/31/clojure-and-testing/ ) Or take this discussion on testing: "Finally, testing is greatly facilitated by design. Ideal testing takes some design co…

    Comment linking /2013/08/31/clojure-and-testing/

    on “Clojure at a Real Estate Portal”
  4. Submitted Real World Clojure as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  5. Yes! I know the guy who started Lambda Lounge (Alex Miller http://tech.puredanger.com/about ) and heartily supported its founding; I spoke at it every once in a while; and my firm (Oasis Digital http://oasisdigital.com/ ) sponsors Lambda Lounge by paying for travel expenses for out-of-town speakers. Lambda Lounge is the best software dev user group ever.

    Comment linking /about

    on “Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video”
  6. Submitted 2 is a code smell as a story · 73 points

    HN discussion
  7. I started writing a comment but it went Yegge on me so I put it here: http://tech.puredanger.com/2011/10/20/real-world-clojure/

    Comment linking /2011/10/20/real-world-clojure/

    on “Up and Running with Clojure”
  8. Submitted Clojure and Testing as a story · 69 points

    HN discussion
  9. http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/09/18/spelunking/ http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/06/code-reading-for-fun-a... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/05/post.html (section about "making Mongrels stable and secure" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483824 http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/gregory/005-code-rea...

    Comment linking /2007/09/18/spelunking/

    on “How to read code”
  10. Submitted Clojure Hills of Abstraction as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  11. Obligatory, the maven adoption curve: http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/01/28/maven-adoption-curve

    Comment linking /2009/01/28/maven-adoption-curve

    on “Maven builds are an infinite cycle of despair”
  12. Submitted Clojure vs Java, pt. 1 as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  13. I wrote a response to this ( http://tech.puredanger.com/2012/07/12/conference-expectation... ) but I think mikeal's comment here gets at the heart of it better: https://gist.github.com/3098860#gistcomment-370439

    Comment linking /2012/07/12/conference-expectations-from-speakers/

    on “Open Conference Expectations”
  14. Submitted A Year of Clojure as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  15. Obligatory: http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/01/28/maven-adoption-curve/

    Comment linking /2009/01/28/maven-adoption-curve/

    on “Maven 3.0 released”
  16. Submitted Clojure multi-methods as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Playing with fork/join from Clojure as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Comparing concurrent frameworks as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Clojure-conj: Present and future as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Using Clojure and clj-plaza to play with RDF data as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Clojure Inspector as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted How about a functional programming conference? as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Clojure-conj: Composable abstractions as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted State of Clojure, problem areas as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Clojure-conj: Parallel programming and fork-join as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted The Maven Adoption Curve as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Questions from an 8-year-old as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Clojure-conj: Fighting for Clojure as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted What is the Java 7 plan? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Java 7 Prediction Update as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion

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