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Sean Cribbs
Personal blog · seancribbs.com/techprogrammingweb
Sean Cribbs's personal blog at seancribbs.com covers programming and web. Since 2009, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Modeling a Tree in a Document Database”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sean Cribbs' posts as references on Riak, comparing it with MongoDB, and on Erlang's abstract syntax tree and parse transforms, which the commenters say get close to Lisp macros.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Modeling a Tree in a Document Database2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-17
- Webmachine vs. Grape2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-16
- MongoDB and Riak, In Context (and an apology)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-07
What Hacker News says?
there you go, from the horse's mouth and fresh off the press: "For better or worse, many people consider MongoDB and Riak to be competitors. In reality, there are very few similarities between the products." http://seancribbs.com/tech/2011/11/07/mongodb-and-riak-in-co...
Comment linking /tech/2011/11/07/mongodb-and-riak-in-context-and-an-apology/
on “MongoDB 2.0 Should Have Been 1.0”Submitted MongoDB and Riak, In Context (and an apology) as a story · 100 points
HN discussionThe end result is relatively similar. Erlang has an underlying representation that uses something akin to prefix notation, albeit more verbose and a lot uglier than what you'd get from lisp. Here's a blog post with an Erlang Abstract Syntax Tree described in it: http://seancribbs.com/tech/2009/06/20/building-a-parser-gene... In essence, this can get close to lisp macros; with parse-transforms, some people have devel…
Comment linking /tech/2009/06/20/building-a-parser-generator-in-erlang-part-4/
on “Joe Armstrong and Simon Peyton Jones discuss Erlang and Haskell”Submitted Why Riak should power your next Rails app as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webmachine vs. Grape as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What do you think and WHY is the best suited tool for true RestFul APIs in Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modeling a Tree in a Document Database as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modeling a Tree in a Document Database as a story · 1 points
HN discussion