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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.

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38mentions?
6HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 21 in 2012

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?

  1. Developing for The Web With Clojure and Noir
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-08
  2. Learn a Programming Language Faster by Copying Unix
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-03
  3. Getting Started With Clojure
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-20
  4. Developing your JSON API in Rails with Rabl
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted Learn a Programming Language Faster by Copying Unix as a story · 267 points

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  3. Submitted Getting Started With Clojure as a story · 4 points

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  4. Submitted A microjs project for simple text processing as a story · 3 points

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  5. Submitted Failing in College and what to do about it as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted Developing your JSON API in Rails with Rabl as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted Unix Goodies Part 1 - Cat as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted Why to support programming user groups as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Developing for The Web With Clojure and Noir as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Getting Started With Clojure as a story · 2 points

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  29. Submitted Introducing Brechoh - Brazilian startup for selling & buying girl stuff as a story · 1 points

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