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Will Jessop
Personal blog · willj.netprogrammingwebdata
Will Jessop's personal blog at willj.net covers programming, web and data. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Use the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-29, and you can follow it by feed.
I write about Ruby on Rails and Postgres scaling, performance and upgrade work, Ruby, Go and other programming topics, as well as sailing and cooking.
Most-linked posts?
- Use the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-05
- Finding Postgres rows too large for BTree indexes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-19
What Hacker News says?
I graphed the old and new prices so you can see how they compare: http://willj.net/static/amazon_s3_old_and_new_price_comparis...
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on “Amazon S3 Price Reduction”Submitted Cloud email service price comparison as a story · 57 points
HN discussionI've got a number of YouTube channel recommendations if you weren't aware of them already ( https://willj.net/posts/youtube-sailing-channel-recommendati... ). A large number of those channels have done a lot of off-shore sailing, and many have done multiple ocean crossings.
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on “Breaking transatlantic sailing record by more than a day (2016)”Submitted Should I switch from Sendgrid to Amazon SES? as a story · 45 points
HN discussionAll computers are NAS if you stick S on them and A them to an N, the Raspberry pi is no different, but it's got a great advantage in that it's small and relatively power efficient. I turned a Dell Optiplex USFF into a NAS ( https://willj.net/posts/fitting-two-hard-drives-and-an-ssd-i... ) but in the same space I could easily fit 4+1 disks instead of the 2+1 if I was using a far smaller motherboard. As for being unde…
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on “NVMe SSD boot with the Raspberry Pi 5”Submitted Setting up PostgreSQL for Ruby on Rails development on OS X as a story · 41 points
HN discussionIt's just a motherboard with the CPU soldered on, it's not really /that/ much different from my Intel desktop in the sense that it's a general purpose computer that you can plug other things into. Focussing on the S bit of SBC isn't really helpful. Ultimately a Pi or other SBC is a pretty nice size for using as a dedicated and specialised device for lots of things. I've got one plugged into my boat to monitor boat r…
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on “NVMe SSD boot with the Raspberry Pi 5”Submitted Show HN: Introducing Sendcat: I'm working on a side-project, what do you think? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby's Queue class and ordered processing as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding Postgres rows too large for BTree indexes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding Postgres rows too large for BTree indexes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Buffer analysis when using EXPLAIN ANALYSE in Postgres as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Protecting yourself against the Wordpress login page exploit as a story · 1 points
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