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W. Jason Gilmore
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W. Jason Gilmore's personal blog at wjgilmore.com covers programming, career and business. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “How I published Easy PHP Websiteswith the Zend Framework Using Open Source Tools”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link W. Jason Gilmore's posts on a 10,000-push-up yearly challenge, which led at least one reader to build a tracking app, and on publishing a book with DocBook and git. One commenter calls the latter interesting.
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My name is Jason Gilmore, and I am a technologist, entrepreneur, and bestselling author.
Most-linked posts?
- How I published Easy PHP Websiteswith the Zend Framework Using Open Source Tools2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-17
- 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-02
What Hacker News says?
After reading an article about doing 10,000 pushups in a year ( https://wjgilmore.com/articles/10000-pushups ), I created "push10k", an iOS app to help me keep track and stay motivated. It's free (no money, no ads) in the iOS app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/push10k/id6754811078 .
Comment linking /articles/10000-pushups
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)”Submitted 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life as a story · 209 points
HN discussionI've written 9 technical books, including 4 for a major publisher (Apress), and 5 independently ( https://wjgilmore.com/ ). One of these books (Beginning PHP and MySQL) has incredibly reached its 20th year in print[1], and has been translated into a bunch of languages. Many years ago I also wound up editing ~70 or so books for Apress plus a few for Wiley. In summary I know this business pretty well, and still follow…
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on “The economics of writing technical books”Submitted Model Context Protocol, Product Demos, and the New App Store as a story · 27 points
HN discussionJason Gilmore (@wjgilmore) has an interesting article on publishing a book using DocBook, and git for version control. http://www.wjgilmore.com/blog/entry/why_i_published_easy_php... -- Also, I just bought Ed's book ... Really great commentary in there. Somewhat sad I've only been a member of the HN community for such a short time.
Comment linking /blog/entry/why_i_published_easy_php_websites_with_the_zend_framework_using_docboo
on “Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments”Submitted A Career Spent Struggling with Web Design and Why the Future Looks Bright as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNextJS + Tailwind CSS and the TailwindUI (apparently now Tailwind Plus) Spotlight template. Code managed on GitHub and auto-deployed to Netlify free tier. No database, nothing to manage. Just write, commit, and push to deploy. https://wjgilmore.com
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on “Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack?”Submitted Thirteen Zend Framework Tutorials as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've also written 1,000+ page books https://wjgilmore.com/books so if a book is defined by its length then I think I have that down pat. In any case, feel free to call it what you will, I'm happy with the information and experiences shared within this slim volume and think readers will find it useful too. And as is typical of all my books I will continue updating and expanding it over time and always provide those u…
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on “Show HN: I wrote a book about running great SaaS technical sales calls”Submitted How I published Easy PHP Websiteswith the Zend Framework Using Open Source Tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI recently used NextJS by way of a TailwindUI.com template to relaunch my personal website https://wjgilmore.com . NextJS was actually pretty fun and surprisingly easy considering I never used it prior to this project. Hosted on Netlify free tier. For everything else I use Laravel.
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on “Ask HN: What tools are you using to quickly build websites/apps?”Submitted Opening Files Faster in Vim with Fzf as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://wjgilmore.com - My personal site. Have built and rebuilt this site many, many times over the past 20 years or so.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Overanalyzing My Poor 1/2 Marathon Performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussion10K Pushup challenge 3 Key take a ways: Use a spreadsheet to track Start simple - if you can only do one pushup that is enough Do it multiple times a day I am past 1000, and feel great and my body shows it. <Long Story> Saw this article, https://wjgilmore.com/articles/10000-pushups?utm_source=hack... From a newletter, oddly called Hacker Newsletter https://buttondown.com/hacker-newsletter/archive/hacker-news...
Comment linking /articles/10000-pushups?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=fav
on “Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?”Submitted From Software Guilds to Software Factories as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimum Viable Expectations for Developers and AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimal SaaS Technical Due Diligence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploying PHP and Zend Framework Websites with Capistrano as a story · 1 points
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