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Rui Figueiredo

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Rui Figueiredo writes The Blinking Caret, a personal blog at blinkingcaret.com about programming and web. Since 2016, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 71 times, most often “Hack your brain to learn more, faster and better”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 31 in 2016

Rui Figueiredo's personal blog. You'll find posts here about .Net, JavaScript and any other thing that I might be interested in. Enjoy

Most-linked posts?

  1. Hack your brain to learn more, faster and better
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-08-08
  2. Microservices, but with Benefits
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-05
  3. Why composition is superior to inheritance as a way of sharing code
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-13
  4. What inverts in the dependency inversion principle?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-27
  5. Create Cross-Platform GUIs Apps with .Net Core and ElectronCGI
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-27
  6. I created a way to port Windows Apps to Linux
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. I've been doing spaced repetition with Anki since 2013. I wrote about my experience here: https://www.blinkingcaret.com/2016/05/04/hack-your-brain-lea... If I could only give one advice to someone about improving their learning skills, it would be to learn about spaced repetition

    Comment linking /2016/05/04/hack-your-brain-learn-faster-better/

    on “To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)”
  2. Submitted Everyone is watching what you do online. How user tracking with cookies works as a story · 131 points

    HN discussion
  3. I've been using Anki since 2013 (almost 5 years). One really nice thing about Anki is that it has analytics. I currently have 4532 cards and my numbers are 99.18% correct answers for "Learning" (very young) cards, 98.44% for Young cards and 92.52% for Mature cards. No way I would be able to remember over 4000 pieces of information without spaced repetition. I truly believe this is the best learning "hack" there is.…

    Comment linking /2016/05/04/hack-your-brain-learn-faster-better/

    on “Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning”
  4. Submitted Rethinking email confirmation as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  5. Been using space repetition since 2013. It's unbelievably useful. Wrote about it in my blog with examples: https://www.blinkingcaret.com/2016/05/04/hack-your-brain-lea...

    Comment linking /2016/05/04/hack-your-brain-learn-faster-better/

    on “Spaced Repetition”
  6. Submitted ElectronCGI – A Solution to Cross-Platform GUIs for .NET Core as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Software Development as an Emergent System as a story · 58 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Road to Modern JavaScript as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Why composition is superior to inheritance as a way of sharing code as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted I created a way to port Windows Apps to Linux as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How to make a web page that looks like a desktop app as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Why composition is superior to inheritance as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted What inverts in the dependency inversion principle? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Hack your brain to learn more, faster and better as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Keeping secrets in ASP.NET Core as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted HTTPS in ASP.NET Core from Scratch as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Electron is Amazing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Principle of Reasonable Expectations as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Why composition is superior to inheritance as a way of sharing code as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted WCF Security Survival Guide as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted What does it mean to be authenticated in ASP.NET MVC as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted The Power of Native as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted I created a way to port Windows Apps to Linux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted ElectronCGI 1.0 – Cross-Platform GUIs for .NET Core as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Concurrency with No Locks: TPL Dataflow in .Net Core, in Depth (Part 2/2) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted ElectronCGI – Cross Platform .Net Core GUIs with Electron as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Create Cross-Platform GUIs Apps with .Net Core and ElectronCGI as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Dependency Injection Without Referencing Implementations as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Secure an ASP.NET Core Web Api Using Cookies as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted ORM-Less Data Access in .Net Core as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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