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Wyatt Greene
Personal blog · techiferous.com · on HN as techiferousprogrammingcareer
Wyatt Greene's personal blog at techiferous.com covers programming and career. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Roadmap for Learning Rails”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Wyatt Greene's posts as beginner guides to learning Ruby and Rails, especially his Rails learning roadmap. Commenters call it an excellent roadmap and a great guide.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Wyatt Greene is a software engineer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Most-linked posts?
- Roadmap for Learning Rails5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-07-24
What Hacker News says?
All you need is color. Your site's design is definitely good but it screams, "We're afraid of color!" ;) I started my blog design with a black-and-white theme thinking it would look sharp and sophisticated but it actually just looked bland. So I threw some saturated colors into my blog and it breathed life into it: http://techiferous.com/ Here's a good tool for choosing color palettes: http://colorschemedesigner.com/
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on “How to become a freelance web developer”Submitted Roadmap for Learning Rails as a story · 107 points
HN discussionIn case you'd like to back up your own blog, I posted a four part series on how to do it with Amazon S3 and cron: http://techiferous.com/2009/11/getting-started-with-amazon-s... This assumes you're running your blog on your own VPS.
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on “Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"”Submitted Please Steal My Startup Idea as a story · 57 points
HN discussionI'm on a Mac and I also rolled my own solution. I hard-coded my most frequently used applications to function keys. It's a great alternative to having multiple monitors (because I'm a nomad freelance developer and do not have a desk). Here are the scripts: http://techiferous.com/2009/12/streamlining-your-workflow-wi...
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on “Solving the Alt-Tab Problem”Submitted Are You a Good Programmer? as a story · 21 points
HN discussionUh, another good post on sharing the joy/pain of learning Ruby. Thanks for sharing. I have spent the past three weeks getting my head into Ruby (on the hopeful way to understanding Rails). With so many different languages and stacks, it makes the early stages extremely daunting for a beginner. I have found comfort in the following resources: 1) The only website I found that actually visualized how everything sits to…
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on “New to Ruby? Tips for the new Rubyist.”Submitted Do Not Treat Quality as a Separate Activity as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWhile I don't doubt that more screen real estate helps most programmers, it's not a hard-and-fast rule. In the past few years my work environment would change from day to day (different offices and coffee shops) so I didn't have the luxury of lugging around large monitors and instead worked exclusively from my laptop's small display. As a result of this and my dislike for Mac OSX's default window navigation I set up…
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on “More screen is better for productivity, studies show”Submitted The $100,000 Career Mistake Rubyists Make as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK -- Boston (or remote) I am a Ruby on Rails freelancer with some newfound availability. I can develop the whole stack, from database/system administration up to the front-end/design. My email is here: http://techiferous.com/about
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2011)”Submitted Roadmap for Learning Rails - A Good Beginners Guide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI found this paradox so compelling that I blogged about it a while ago. I tried to tease out the "intuitive" explanation without resorting to much statistics. http://techiferous.com/2010/06/the-two-envelope-paradox/
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on “Two Envelopes Problem”Submitted Stop Using Single Point Estimates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHi, Davide. Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to have a web developer in your network: http://techiferous.com/about/ My relocation to Boston was logistically difficult, so I have a soft spot for helping others relocate. I'd be glad to be of assistance if you need help or have questions about Boston neighborhoods or tech hangouts.
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on “Built in Boston: Why Great Entrepreneurs Are Choosing MA to Build Their Startups”Depending on how much or how little you know, this may be useful: Roadmap for Learning Rails[1]. In some sense, it's an ideal and you could probably learn some of these things at the same time. That said, if you know nothing about HTML or SQL or <insert many other things here>, you're going to find Rails overwhelming and simply not get a lot of what you're doing. (Maybe that's fine too. Dive in, get lost, figure out…
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on “Learning Ruby and Rails, where would you start?”Here's a trick that works for me: I've noticed that creative ideas often pop in at random times when I'm doing something unrelated to the idea. So I created a little script that, upon hitting the F10 key, opens a dialog. I type in my thought and it writes it to a file called jot.txt. At the end of the day, I review jot.txt and act on the ideas. This allows me to capture interesting ideas when they happen without los…
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on “Getting Creative Things Done: How To Fit Hard Thinking Into a Busy Schedule”On my about page, I simply display my email address as an image instead of text. http://techiferous.com/about/ This does have significant disadvantages, the worst being that users cannot cut and paste the address.
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on “Protecting your email with 'AT domain DOT com' is making it easier to find”A few days ago I saw a link to a "roadmap" for Rails ( http://techiferous.com/2010/07/roadmap-for-learning-rails/ ). It'd be nice if someone put together something like this for a rigorous and practical computer science skill-set.
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on “Ask HN: What if I missed the good stuff in my undergraduate education?”No pre-made org software has ever felt comfortable enough for me, so I roll my own. I have a series of text files organized how I like. I added syntax highlighting in TextMate. I also wrote Ruby scripts that automate any parts that would be tedious if done manually. My calendar is just a glorified text file, specially formatted for ease-of-use. I also wrote my own TextMate bundle that turns TextMate into a wiki, whi…
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on “[Ask HN] How do you organize your tasks/to-do lists?”Excellent roadmap for learning Rails: http://techiferous.com/2010/07/roadmap-for-learning-rails/
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on “Ask HN: Suggestions for Starting with Ruby on Rails?”You've raised a good issue. I recently redesigned my blog and that included updating the typography. I decided on DroidSerifRegular for the body text. It looks beautiful on a Mac but when I previewed it on IE/Windows, it looked absolutely horrible (the lowercase a, especially). So for IE I use Georgia. My blog: http://techiferous.com
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on “Ask HN: Custom Fonts & Anti-Aliasing”Yes, I also found astrails-safe quite useful. I've written up a four-part blog post about backing up your website using Amazon S3 and astrails-safe: http://techiferous.com/2009/11/getting-started-with-amazon-s...
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on “Ruby on Rails Backup Solutions”Here's a great guide for getting started with Ruby on Rails. It takes you through all the stuff you need to learn to really understand how the whole RoR stack works, in addition to some front-end knowledge. Links to resources are included. http://techiferous.com/2010/07/roadmap-for-learning-rails/
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on “Ask HN: How to get started in web programming?”I liked Rails better before the Rake 0.9 hiccups exposed the magic. Now everyone is writing articles to explain the mess. Here's one from Wyatt Greene: http://techiferous.com/2011/05/the-no-nonsense-guide-to-mana...
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on “David Chelimsky on rake 0.9 and gem version constraints”