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Personal blog · schwad.github.ioprogrammingweb

schwad is a personal blog at schwad.github.io about programming and web. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “How I got my first pull request merged on Rails-core”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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12mentions?
3HN people?
2017–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2018

I am a Rubyist enjoying solving challenging problems.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How I got my first pull request merged on Rails-core
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. Location: United Kingdom (US Citizen) Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Postgres, RSpec/Capybara, TravisCi/GitlabCi, Coffeescript, Javascript, Gitlab/Github, Slack/RocketChat Résumé/CV: https://schwad.github.io Email: nicholas.schwaderer@gmail.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2017)”
  2. Submitted You've messed up a migration. Now what? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How Rails and Heroku Saved My Bacon as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Speaking on Ruby and Chronic Pain Management in Sheffield as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Rails: Oligarchical SaaS Using CanCan as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Migrate your apps to the new community-maintained trix gem: 'trix-rails' as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Talking about my first Rails pull request on the Ruby on Rails Podcast as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Take care when using render in Rails as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted New additions to my favorite Ruby community resources as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How I got my first pull request merged on Rails-core as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How I got my first pull request merged on Rails-core as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Coming to Terms with the 'Prima Donna Method' Smell as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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