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Ruby Fleebie is a personal blog at rubyfleebie.com about programming and web. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Ruby and C (Part 1)”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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19mentions?
6HN people?
2009–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2010

Most-linked posts?

  1. Ruby and C (Part 1)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-02-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. There is a difference between static typing and strong typing. Ruby is a dynamic language that is strongly typed. This will explain it better than I can: http://www.rubyfleebie.com/ruby-is-dynamically-and-strongly-...

    Comment linking /ruby-is-dynamically-and-strongly-typed/

    on “Dynamic Languages are Unmaintainable”
  2. Submitted Testing Rails applications in the life of a freelancer as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion
  3. You can take a look at this : http://www.rubyfleebie.com/encryption-with-alphanumeric-outp... It cares more about readability than security but I guess it is safe enough.

    Comment linking /encryption-with-alphanumeric-output/

    on “Ask HN: Best practices for creating unique IDs”
  4. Submitted Ruby 1.9 made me remember how I hate the concept of encodings as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Ruby and C (Part 1) as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted XMPP4r: A real world example as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted How to setup a password-less “cap deploy” with Capistrano as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Ruby and C : Part 1 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Should ruby go the haml route and uses significant whitespaces? » Ruby Fleebie as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How to backup your postgres database on SpiderOak using Dokku as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Top 5 testing tools for ruby as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Generate round-robin sport schedules with RRSchedule (weekend project) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Remain professional even after your death (for freelancers) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Rails isn’t trendy anymore. Horray for Rails as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted How to use Dokku on DigitalOcean and deploy Rails applications like a pro as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted My brief rant against SPA as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Rails: Keeping secrets secret without using .gitignore as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Every Little Things Capistrano Does Is Magic as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted 5 Plugins Or Gems You Could Not Live Without as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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