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Railsware
Company blog · railsware.com/blogprogrammingstartups
Railsware is the company blog at railsware.com, writing about programming and startups. Since 2012, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Touch Bar interface for Slack”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Railsware's blog posts on Swift BDD testing, Touch Bar interface design, CouchDB couchapps, and PostgreSQL-based recommender systems. Comments are mostly bare links or a typo report.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Damn good at building products. Happy customers can prove that.
Most-linked posts?
- Touch Bar interface for Slack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-07
- Google Apps Script Gotchas You Should Know to Develop an Add‑on2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-22
What Hacker News says?
Typo in the page title of "BDD-style framerwork for swift http://railsware.com/blog/2014/07/04/bdd-style-testing-in-sw... Should be "BDD-style framework for swift http://railsware.com/blog/2014/07/04/bdd-style-testing-in-sw...
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/04/bdd-style-testing-in-swift-with-sleipnir/%22
on “Sleipnir: BDD-style framework for Swift”Submitted PostgreSQL most useful extensions as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHave you seen this? http://railsware.com/blog/2016/11/07/touch-bar-interface-for...
Comment linking /blog/2016/11/07/touch-bar-interface-for-slack-railsware-vision/
on “New MacBook Pro is selling like crazy”Submitted API with Ruby on Rails: useful tricks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionnee: couchapps https://railsware.com/blog/couchdb-and-couchapp-part-1/amp/#... https://couchapp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/couchapp/gettingst... https://couchapp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/list-of-couch...
Comment linking /blog/couchdb-and-couchapp-part-1/amp/
on “Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette”Submitted Slow-Fast Request Balancer. Haproxy. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionsmlar extension for pg "Simple Recommender System" section: http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/talks/pgcon-2012.pdf http://railsware.com/blog/2012/05/10/effective-similarity-se... http://blog.databasepatterns.com/2014/07/postgresql-install-...
Comment linking /blog/2012/05/10/effective-similarity-search-in-postgresql/
on “Ask HN: Recommend a recommendation system”Submitted Rails 3.2.9 through associations issues as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL Most Useful Extensions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Apps Script Gotchas You Should Know to Develop an Add‑on as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maps with React Native, Rails, and PostgreSQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build a Successful Tech Product with Minimum Marketing Budget as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git housekeeping tutorial as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dependency Injection in Objective-C with Blood and Magic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby 2.0 Lazy Enumerator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Using Forward Declaration In Your Objective-C Projects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heroku Queuing Time, Part2: Solution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heroku Queuing Time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chef: DOs and DON’Ts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes Product Development Lean? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build a great product roadmap? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MoSCoW Method: How to Make the Best of Prioritization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Product Discovery – Do's and Dont's as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Apps Script Gotchas You Should Know to Develop an Add‑on as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Touch Bar interface for Slack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we use custom emoji for Slack to quick poll groups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creation of pure Swift module as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Global Variables in Apple's Swift are not Variables as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Relic SaaS Platform Launch With Railsware Extensions Included as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inception as an effective way to start web app development as a story · 1 points
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