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The Devel!
Personal blog · blog.choonkeat.com/weblogprogrammingweb
The Devel! is a personal blog at blog.choonkeat.com about programming and web. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “TDD for Those Who Don't Need It”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts on TDD and testing, on templating engines (hquery for Rails), and on file uploads in Ruby, cited in threads about Airbnb testing, templating and Shrine.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
choonkeat on programming & software
Most-linked posts?
- TDD for Those Who Don't Need It2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-01
What Hacker News says?
A public service announcement: There’s still a lot of pretty good programmers who don’t write tests… and programmers who write tests are not necessarily any good - http://blog.choonkeat.com/weblog/2012/06/tdd-for-those-who-d...
Comment linking /weblog/2012/06/tdd-for-those-who-dont-need-it.html
on “Testing at Airbnb”Submitted File Uploads 2015 – Another day, another monolith Ruby gem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis approach reminds me of hquery (for Ruby on Rails) by choonkeat: http://blog.choonkeat.com/weblog/2008/10/hquery-an-unobtrusi... https://github.com/choonkeat/hquery
Comment linking /weblog/2008/10/hquery-an-unobtrusive-server-script-implementation.html
on “Your templating engine sucks and everything you've ever written is spaghetti”Submitted TDD for Those Who Don't Need It as a story · 3 points
HN discussionsorry didn't see this reply. i'll copy-paste my reply http://blog.choonkeat.com/weblog/2015/10/file-uploads-2015.h... for posterity ;-) > If you're using an image server, you still need to do... yes and we should move towards solving issues in the image server, not yet another client gem > File validations (most notably preventing big files) big file upload can equally be prevented on image server as on a rails serv…
Comment linking /weblog/2015/10/file-uploads-2015.html
on “Shrine – A new solution for handling file uploads in Ruby”Submitted No Template is the Best Template as a story · 1 points
HN discussion