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Sophomore Dev

Personal blog · sophomoredev.comprogrammingweb

Sophomore Dev is a personal blog at sophomoredev.com about programming and web. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “How I use Django, Virtualenv and Buildout together”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
4HN people?
2012–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link these posts on setting up Django projects with buildout and virtual environments, cited in a Django best practices thread. The comment itself recommends buildout, not the posts.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How I use Django, Virtualenv and Buildout together
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-14
  2. A different approach to rendering Backbone sub-views
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. e12e · 2013-03-11
    If you're working with python, I would recommend looking at buildout first. The best part of working with plone lately has been learning bootstrap. For working with Django and buildoout see eg: http://www.slideshare.net/zerok/django-buildout-en-presentat... http://www.sophomoredev.com/2012/06/how-i-use-django-virtual... As for managing deployments and general devops, I am currently looking at ansible.

    Comment linking /2012/06/how-i-use-django-virtualenv-and-buildout-together/

    on “Django Best Practices”
  2. babeKnuth · 2012-06-15

    Submitted How I deploy with Fabric as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. bialecki · 2012-06-14

    Submitted How I use Django, Virtualenv and Buildout together as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. bialecki · 2012-07-13

    Submitted Hacking stubborn APIs: getting paginated results when there’s no paging option as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. bialecki · 2012-06-15

    Submitted A different approach to rendering Backbone sub-views as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. vijayanThiru · 2012-07-16

    Submitted A different approach to rendering Backbone sub-views as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. bialecki · 2012-06-17

    Submitted Using Fabric to deploy on AWS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. bialecki · 2012-06-16

    Submitted Extending Backbone views to configure non-DOM events as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. bialecki · 2012-06-15

    Submitted Surprising JavaScript rendering benchmark as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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