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Rodrigo Alves Vieira
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Rodrigo Alves Vieira's personal blog at rodrigoalvesvieira.com covers programming. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Developing for The Web With Clojure and Noir”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on writing your own Unix-style tools, which one commenter cites as a way to improve programming skills. It appears in a thread about being ridiculed for open-sourcing a project.
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?
- Developing for The Web With Clojure and Noir2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-08
- Learn a Programming Language Faster by Copying Unix2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-03
- Getting Started With Clojure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-20
- Developing your JSON API in Rails with Rabl2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-15
What Hacker News says?
I see absolutely nothing wrong with this approach of writing your own tools. If a person feels that it's better, why ridicule it? Noone is forcing you to use it. If you feel it's not for you, that's fine. On the other hand, some people are advocating this approach as a way to improve your programming skills: http://www.rodrigoalvesvieira.com/copy-unix/
Comment linking /copy-unix/
on “What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project”Submitted Learn a Programming Language Faster by Copying Unix as a story · 267 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started With Clojure as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A microjs project for simple text processing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failing in College and what to do about it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developing your JSON API in Rails with Rabl as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unix Goodies Part 1 - Cat as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why to support programming user groups as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developing for The Web With Clojure and Noir as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started With Clojure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Going Freelance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cepfacil: Java library for fetching any brazilian address thu a zipCode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Contribute to an Open Source Project with Git and GitHub as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Caching JavaScript Loops as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Instances of TrueClass and FalseClass need to_i, right? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grace as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Industry to Academia, the tale of a young developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Java libs hard to live without as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup idea: inward bicycle transportation service as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Cuba has eradicated poverty as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Add require_relative to IRB as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenStruct for rapid object prototyping in Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Computer Programming is taught at CIn/UFPE as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Controlling access to your JavaScript Objects properties as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comments Are Important to Your Code and Team as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Inspector and Firebug element selection trick as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Four Fours in Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Microsoft and Metro as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Brechoh - Brazilian startup for selling & buying girl stuff as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoid The Legacy Trap as a story · 1 points
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