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Saturn Flyer

Personal blog · saturnflyer.com/blogprogramming

Saturn Flyer is a personal blog at saturnflyer.com about programming. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “The Gang of Four book is wrong about delegation (2012)”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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39mentions?
13HN people?
2012–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2013

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Most-linked posts?

  1. The Gang of Four book is wrong about delegation (2012)
    2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-02-03
  2. The Gang of Four is wrong and you don't understand delegation (2012)
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. bradpauly · 2012-09-19

    Submitted $15,000 In Income From An EBook, How I Did It as a story · 132 points

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  2. angelbob · 2012-08-14

    Submitted The Gang of Four is Wrong and You Don't Understand Delegation as a story · 47 points

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  3. saturnflyer · 2013-10-21

    Submitted How to make your code imply responsibilities as a story · 38 points

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  4. Tomte · 2017-06-29

    Submitted The Gang of Four book is wrong about delegation (2012) as a story · 34 points

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  5. saturnflyer · 2013-10-23

    Submitted Easy Metaprogramming For Making Your Code Habitable as a story · 34 points

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  6. saturnflyer · 2013-03-21

    Submitted Ruby delegate.rb secrets as a story · 32 points

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  7. Tomte · 2025-03-26

    Submitted The Gang of Four is wrong and you don't understand delegation (2012) as a story · 28 points

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  8. nonrecursive · 2012-12-18

    Submitted Chubby Models Are Still Fat With Concerns as a story · 5 points

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  9. Tomte · 2016-01-30

    Submitted The Gang of Four Is Wrong and You Don't Understand Delegation (2012) as a story · 4 points

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  10. saturnflyer · 2013-10-22

    Submitted What to code (in Ruby) when you know what you want as a story · 4 points

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  11. Tomte · 2021-02-11

    Submitted The Gang of Four Is Wrong and You Don't Understand Delegation (2012) as a story · 3 points

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  12. petercooper · 2017-05-18

    Submitted What if we organized code by features? as a story · 3 points

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  13. saturnflyer · 2015-04-22

    Submitted Ruby: the difference between instance_eval and instance_exec as a story · 3 points

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  14. saturnflyer · 2013-11-13

    Submitted How abstractions encourage good thinking as a story · 3 points

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  15. b3morales · 2021-07-12

    Submitted East-Oriented Code (2014) as a story · 2 points

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  16. saturnflyer · 2019-07-24

    Submitted Reading Ruby Metaprogramming Inside Devise as a story · 2 points

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  17. golergka · 2019-04-02

    Submitted The Gang of Four is wrong and you don't understand delegation (2012) as a story · 2 points

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  18. saturnflyer · 2017-05-31

    Submitted Why write code when more dependencies will do? as a story · 2 points

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  19. saturnflyer · 2017-02-22

    Submitted Building a Ruby tool that's easy for your team to use as a story · 2 points

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  20. Tomte · 2016-11-16

    Submitted The Gang of Four Is Wrong and You Don't Understand Delegation (2012) as a story · 2 points

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  21. lobo_tuerto · 2015-01-21

    Submitted Ruby Forwardable Deep Dive as a story · 2 points

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  22. saturnflyer · 2014-12-02

    Submitted Forwarding Messages with Tell, Don't Ask as a story · 2 points

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  23. saturnflyer · 2013-11-19

    Submitted Delegation Is Everything And Inheritance Does Not Exist as a story · 2 points

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  24. andreiursan · 2012-08-31

    Submitted The Gang Of Four Is Wrong And You Don't Understand Delegation as a story · 2 points

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  25. Tomte · 2022-05-11

    Submitted The Gang of Four Is Wrong and You Don't Understand Delegation (2012) as a story · 1 points

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  26. Tomte · 2021-09-02

    Submitted The Gang of Four Is Wrong and You Don't Understand Delegation (2012) as a story · 1 points

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  27. saturnflyer · 2017-08-09

    Submitted Fix it now as a story · 1 points

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  28. saturnflyer · 2017-06-13

    Submitted 7 ways to evaluate Ruby gems, and 1 crazy idea as a story · 1 points

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  29. saturnflyer · 2017-05-16

    Submitted Building tools and building teams as a story · 1 points

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  30. Tomte · 2017-03-27

    Submitted The Gang of Four Is Wrong and You Don't Understand Delegation (2012) as a story · 1 points

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