Top all-time · #13573
Stonecharioteer on Tech
Personal blog · tech.stonecharioteer.com/postsprogrammingcareer
Stonecharioteer on Tech is a personal blog at tech.stonecharioteer.com about programming and career. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Learning Ruby as a Pythonista”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Readers link this blog's Ruby series, which a Python developer learning Ruby says resonates with them. The commenter asks the author to continue the series and praises its Ruby loops post.
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?
- Learning Ruby as a Pythonista3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-10-04
- Ruby Symbols2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-11-03
- Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-20
- Merrilin – We built an app to read books2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-27
- Love's Labour Lost – Building a Reading App2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-01
What Hacker News says?
I'm the guy you hire when you want to squeeze your application's performance. I have worked in Fintech, defence, FMCG, retail and AI. Ex-Visa, ex-Flipkart, Ex-Composio. Location: Bengaluru, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Rust, Postgresql, Javascript, Distributed Systems Résumé/CV: https://github.com/stonecharioteer/resume/releases/latest | https://tech.stonecharioteer.com Email: ktvk…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)”Submitted Ruby Blocks as a story · 193 points
HN discussionI was on that hill too. For years I used Sphinx and Furo to render my blog, which you can still access at https://old.stonecharioteer.com I like the framework, but it ended up being too in the way. I am not an RST maintainer. I want to blog and get my thoughts out in the world. I split my website to use different subdomains, and most of the posts in that old blog are now in https://tech.stonecharioteer.com which is…
Comment linking /
on “I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024)”Submitted Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops as a story · 97 points
HN discussion> but the implementation details (messaging passing or not) are irrelevant. I'm the author here. While I agree that the implementation details do not matter for _most_ developers, I wanted to learn Ruby with an understand of how things are implemented. In my previous post[1], I go into why I've always felt I didn't need Ruby since I knew Python, and I spent time learning Rust instead. It felt redundant to learn a se…
Comment linking /posts/2025/ruby/
on “Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops”Submitted The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience as a story · 64 points
HN discussionYou might like my other post too https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/ruby-blocks/
Comment linking /posts/2025/ruby-blocks/
on “Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops”Submitted Ruby Symbols as a story · 64 points
HN discussionI've been learning Ruby for my job at Chatwoot. Its been really fun. I've been blogging about it as well[1][2][3] and I've hit the HN Front page twice already. I'm super psyched about it. My next article is about Symbols in Ruby. [1] https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/ruby/ [2] https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/ruby-blocks/ [3] https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/ruby-loops/
Comment linking /posts/2025/ruby-loops/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on?”Submitted Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops as a story · 18 points
HN discussionHello, I wrote the next post: https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/ruby-symbols/
Comment linking /posts/2025/ruby-symbols/
on “Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops”Submitted A Soiree into Symbols in Ruby as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHey OP, please continue this series! I'm in the same ship with you. I've been a Python developer for years, but recently start learning Ruby after I discovered its elegance. Your post here well resonates with me: https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/ruby/
Comment linking /posts/2025/ruby/
on “Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops”Submitted Learning Ruby as a Pythonista as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI wanted to follow up from my post about ruby blocks[1] and I thought I should talk about loops and how they work. [1] https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/ruby-blocks/
Comment linking /posts/2025/ruby-blocks/
on “Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops”Submitted Publishing KOReader Highlights as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://stonecharioteer.com and https://tech.stonecharioteer.com I hit the HN Front page thrice for my posts on Ruby last year. Going to write way more soon. I write about Python, Rust, Linux and some tooling. I'll also write about concurrency next.
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Show HN: Read the RFCs That Built the Internet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLocation: Bengaluru, India Remote: Yes Remote Preferred: Yes. Willing to relocate: No Email: mail at stonecharioteer.com I'm the one you throw at repetitive problems, tough engineering problems related to latency and performance. I've previously worked at Visa, Flipkart, GKN Aerospace, and I've consulted for startups the last year. I have been building https://merrilin.ai and my posts hit the HN Frontpage 5 times in…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)”Submitted Love's Labour Lost – Building a Reading App as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've always written my blog for myself. I keep it as a record of what I'm working on, I suppose, or what I'm interested in. I was mildly surprise to find I had 279 blog posts on https://tech.stonecharioteer.com . I only ever write for myself. Whenever I try to write for an audience, I am not satisfied.
Comment linking /
on “Write for One Person”Submitted I Rebuilt Traceroute in Rust and It Was Simpler Than I Expected as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLocation: Bengaluru, India Remote: Yes Will to relocate: no Technologies: Python, Rust, PostgreSQL, Systems Engineering, DevTooling, Agentic Systems Resume: http://github.com/stonecharioteer/resume/releases/latest email: mail@stonecharioteer.com Hello! I'm a software developer who's got an eye for performant and intuitive systems. I've worked at companies in the defense, finance, ecommerce, SaaS and security space.…
Comment linking /posts/2026/merrilin/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)”Submitted A Soiree into Symbols in Ruby as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Traced My Traffic Through a Home Tailscale Exit Node as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GoForGo Updates – Rustlings Style TUI to Learn Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Merrilin – We built an app to read books as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using a local DNS namespace for local service discovery as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Primer on Control Charts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CAP theorem for Careers as a story · 2 points
HN discussion