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Skuunk Works
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Skuunk Works is a personal blog at skuunk.com about programming and web. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in comments as supporting examples: one post covers Elixir destructuring of map values in function definitions, another describes a team git workflow with an integration branch and a business-owner review step.
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.
This is my technical blog where I note things I have developed that I want to remember.
What Hacker News says?
I’m a bit of an elixir noob, but Enum functions like slice let you cut up lists in various ways, and you can pattern match values in maps in function definitions: http://www.skuunk.com/2020/01/elixir-destructuring-function.... Which can let you unroll function preambles, or apply different rules if for instance an admin user runs a function versus a regular user.
Comment linking /2020/01/elixir-destructuring-function.html
on “Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP”Submitted JQuery: When does a library become a language? as a story · 23 points
HN discussionInterestingly enough, I was just documenting my team's workflow in my blog... http://www.skuunk.com/2014/01/our-git-workflow.html Very similar to this, but we add a couple of steps to allow a business owner to examine a feature before it gets accepted and also we use an integration branch to deal with merge conflicts before creating a releasable master branch.
Comment linking /2014/01/our-git-workflow.html
on “Simple git workflow is simple”Submitted Reading AJAX XHR File Uploads in Sinatra as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails file uploads: Limiting a user's uploads by space available as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted EBay's Browser Highlighter Firefox extension / plug in as a story · 1 points
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