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urbanautomaton.com
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urbanautomaton.com is a personal blog at urbanautomaton.com about programming. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “PlePuProPro: The Pledge to Put Prolog in Production”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link the author's posts on Prolog and on Git's diff and grep handling of language files via .gitattributes. The comments only cite or link the posts and do not judge the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- PlePuProPro: The Pledge to Put Prolog in Production3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-13
- Rails autoloading – how it works and when it doesn't2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-27
What Hacker News says?
Definitive reference: https://www.urbanautomaton.com/blog/2015/08/10/the-pledge-to...
Comment linking /blog/2015/08/10/the-pledge-to-put-prolog-in-production/
on “Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?”Submitted Rails autoloading – how it works and when it doesn't as a story · 21 points
HN discussionDoes anybody know if the new diff heuristic engine takes info from a .gitattributes file in to account? When using git diff to view changes it already makes a difference, see http://urbanautomaton.com/blog/2011/07/28/git-grep-and-langu...
Comment linking /blog/2011/07/28/git-grep-and-language-specific-diffs/
on “Git 2.9 released”Submitted Rails autoloading – now it works, and how as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRails is the epitome of the magic philosophy. Stuff "happens" through inference because you touched some part of the code (check out routes, foo_{url,path} methods, url_for , and passing some models as argument to those), or the database schema (defining accessors from DB fields or adding features when magic-imbued names are used, such as type , version or foo_id / foo_type ). This makes one feel fast and powerful a…
Comment linking /blog/2013/08/27/rails-autoloading-hell/
on “3.5 Years, 500k Lines of Go”Submitted PlePuProPro: The Pledge to Put Prolog in Production as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PlePuProPro: The Pledge to Put Prolog in Production as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PlePuProPro: The Pledge to Put Prolog in Production as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
