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Company blog · redbooth.com/engineeringprogrammingproductivity

Redbooth is the company blog at redbooth.com, writing about programming and productivity. Since 2014, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “The hamburger menu is definitely bad for your app”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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26mentions?
19HN people?
2014–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters cite Redbooth's blog posts on handwriting and memory as support for their own points. Other comments are a job ad, a sponsorship note, and bare links, with no judgement of the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Project management software for teams: Kanban, Gantt charts, workload reports, team chat and AI. Free for 2 users; try every Business feature for 14 days.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The hamburger menu is definitely bad for your app
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-13
  2. Remote Teams: Best Practices and Culture Lessons
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-07
  3. When do we actually get work done?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. Redbooth | Frontend, Backend, Android, Software Engineers | San Francisco | Onsite or Remote (US/Canada only) | Full-Time https://www.redbooth.com is a collaboration platform providing tasks, chat, video, file share, and timeline. More than 3,000 organizations organize their work through Redbooth. Tech: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, Memcached, React.js, Backbone.js Check out the positions at https…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)”
  2. Submitted Show HN: We just open sourced our Scrum planning poker cards as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  3. There are also many cloud-hosted SaaS companies that offer an installable version of their products: GitHub: https://enterprise.github.com/home NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/onsite Travis CI: https://enterprise.travis-ci.com/ Circle CI: https://circleci.com/enterprise Sysdig: https://sysdig.com/pricing/ CodeClimate: https://codeclimate.com/enterprise Waffle.io: https://takeout.waffle.io Coveralls: https://enterprise.co…

    Comment linking /en/enterprise/

    on “Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services”
  4. Submitted RSpec testing guidelines as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  5. Top of the post says it’s a sponsored article based on https://redbooth.com/blog/your-most-productive-time

    Comment linking /blog/your-most-productive-time

    on “When Does Work Actually Get Done?”
  6. Submitted The hamburger menu is definitely bad for your app as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  7. > writing something down burns it more into your brain Yes, and the recall effect is much stronger if you use handwriting vs typing[0] [0] see for example https://redbooth.com/blog/handwriting-and-memory/amp

    Comment linking /blog/handwriting-and-memory/amp

    on “Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base?”
  8. Submitted Using events to decouple Rails applications as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  9. There’s plenty of scientific evidence that handwriting is good for you https://redbooth.com/blog/handwriting-and-memory

    Comment linking /blog/handwriting-and-memory

    on “Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools”
  10. Submitted The Coordinator pattern as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  11. https://redbooth.com/ (formerly teambox)

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Recommend a team work site with file sharing and a chatroom?”
  12. Submitted RealmResultsController: The iOS NSFetchedResultsController for Realm in Swift as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted On Banishing the Hamburger Menu from iPhone Apps as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Dry with Ruby metaprogramming as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Top Tips for Fine-Tuning Your Virtual Team as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted When do we actually get work done? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Remote Teams: Best Practices and Culture Lessons as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Teambox is now Redbooth as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Remote teams: Best practices and culture lessons from Redbooth as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Why We Banished the Hamburger Menu from Our iPhone App as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Why We Banished the Hamburger Menu from Our iPhone App as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Valid? valid valid as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Default Browser Content Security Policy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Redefine CTO as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Teambox rebrands as RedBooth as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Teambox is now Redbooth as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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