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Tim Ruffles

Personal blog · timr.co · on HN as timrufflesprogrammingweb

Tim Ruffles's personal blog at timr.co covers programming and web. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Server-Side Rendering Is a Thiel Truth”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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8HN people?
2019–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

Linked for a post about learning Go and becoming familiar with it, drawing on the author's background in Java. The only comment discusses which new concepts Go adds, such as pointers.

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.

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The author on HN?

timruffles · 1,614 karma · member since 2010

timr.co

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Server-Side Rendering Is a Thiel Truth
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. Trying to find something I agree with in this post. I programmed in Java for decades and found that there were plenty of new concepts to learn in Go. Not sure asking myself what concepts I knew would help me in learning Go, especially since I know the concepts, I don't need to ask myself whether I know them. Some concepts not in Java - Pointers. These take a while to understand and use effectively. https://www.timr.…

    Comment linking /go-interfaces-the-tricky-parts

    on “Learning a new language, or how I gained familiarity with Go”
  2. Submitted Go Interfaces, the Tricky Parts as a story · 135 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Architecture for a JavaScript to C compiler as a story · 90 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Server-Side Rendering Is a Thiel Truth as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Server-Side Rendering Is a Thiel Truth (2020) as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted When is a slice of any not a slice of any? as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Server-side rendering is a Thiel truth as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted A Pandemic of Bubble Maps as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Weirdest JavaScript Syntax as a story · 2 points

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