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Ross Kaffenberger
Personal blog · rossta.net/blogprogrammingweb
Ross Kaffenberger's personal blog at rossta.net covers programming and web. Since 2015, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “How we switched from Sprockets to Webpack”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ross Kaffenberger's blog for posts on Elixir, Rails and Ruby, including Elixir deployment and interop, Rails N+1 queries and caching, and making a Rails app a progressive web app.
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.
Ross Kaffenberger writes about software engineering, computer programming, and web development in Ruby, Javascript, and Elixir
Most-linked posts?
- How we switched from Sprockets to Webpack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-12
- Infinite Sequences in Ruby (like Clojure)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-23
What Hacker News says?
That was a nice article. Thanks. I'm curious about the first table in the "Interop with other systems" part. It seems to say that an Erlang deployment doesn't need Nginx or a HTTPServer, anybody knows how that works? EDIT: I read the cited source ( https://rossta.net/blog/why-i-am-betting-on-elixir.html ) and it seems that is the case. It looks too good to be true, yet. It would be nice, if somebody with Erlang depl…
Comment linking /blog/why-i-am-betting-on-elixir.html
on “Elixir in Depth – Reading and personal notes”Submitted 3 Ways Webpack Surprises Web Developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSince Rails 7.1 we've had https://www.rubydoc.info/github/rails/rails/ActiveRecord%2FR... which actaully does run queries in parallel. There's also Rails' russian doll caching, which can actaully results in pages with n+1 queries running quicker than ones with preloaded queries. https://rossta.net/blog/n-1-is-a-rails-feature.html
Comment linking /blog/n-1-is-a-rails-feature.html
on “Ruby Video – On a mission to index all Ruby conferences”Submitted Vue.js is omakase as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBuild your first Progressive Web App courtesy of the big G: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/codelabs/your... I wonder if Rails support could be added for PWAs? I found a guide here: https://rossta.net/blog/make-your-rails-app-a-progressive-we... but I'm only midway through testing it. Getting Puma (Rails dev web server) to speak SSL without throwing errors is a stumbling block :/
Comment linking /blog/make-your-rails-app-a-progressive-web-app.html
on “Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section”Submitted Recurring events in Ruby as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: New York Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: to Washington DC Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/ECMAScript/CoffeeScript, Node.js, Ember/React/Backbone (interested: Elixir, Clojure, Golang) Résumé/CV: https://rossta.net/resume.pdf Email: ross@rossta.net
Comment linking /resume.pdf
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2016)”Submitted Pascal's Triangle with Ruby's Enumerator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why does Rails 6 include both Webpacker and Sprockets? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Switched from Sprockets to Webpack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overpacking: A Common Webpacker Mistake – Rossta.net as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we switched from Sprockets to Webpack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted N+1 is a Rails feature, not a bug as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned building an app in Hanami as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infinite Sequences in Ruby (like Clojure) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infinite Sequences in Ruby as a story · 1 points
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