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Avdi Grimm
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Avdi Grimm's personal blog at avdi.codes covers programming, career and philosophy. Since 2017, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “How to Cope with Technology FOMO”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Avdi Grimm, Code Cleric
Most-linked posts?
- How to Cope with Technology FOMO4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-09-20
- On Gatekeeping, Complicity, and Arrival4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-10-28
- Enough with the Service Objects Already4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-10-31
- Tools for turning descriptions into diagrams: text-to-picture resources4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-06-24
- /in-which-i-make-you-hate-ruby-in-7-minutes/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-10
What Hacker News says?
These were posted on HN a few days ago: https://avdi.codes/tools-for-turning-descriptions-into-diagr...
Comment linking /tools-for-turning-descriptions-into-diagrams/
on “Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website”Submitted On "Owning" Software as a story · 99 points
HN discussionNice links. For a taste of what to program in Pharo is like, see https://avdi.codes/in-which-i-make-you-hate-ruby-in-7-minute...
Comment linking /in-which-i-make-you-hate-ruby-in-7-minutes/
on “Try APL”Submitted Simple Is Complex as a story · 64 points
HN discussionI came across a recent blog post[1], that mentioned some text-to-diagram tools, out of which I liked Gleek.io and nomnoml in particular. [1] https://avdi.codes/tools-for-turning-descriptions-into-diagr...
Comment linking /tools-for-turning-descriptions-into-diagrams/
on “Ask HN: A modern-looking UML diagram tool?”Submitted Tools for turning descriptions into diagrams: text-to-picture resources as a story · 63 points
HN discussionRelated: http://xahlee.info/python/quality_docs.html | http://xahlee.info/comp/which_programing_language_has_best_d... It's curious, despite not a example of a great language, PHP has great documentation. I tried Pharo, and a great functionality there I miss in other languages, is the search by example ability. Saves a lot of visits to stackoverflow. See for example: https://avdi.codes/in-which-i-make-you-hate-ruby-…
Comment linking /in-which-i-make-you-hate-ruby-in-7-minutes/
on “How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?”Submitted On Gatekeeping, Complicity, and Arrival as a story · 58 points
HN discussionYes, actually, this is good feedback: I can see how it might have been understood as some amazing engineering. Certainly Holden did a fantastic job getting back in one piece... I've reached the stage in my programmer's career where I look back on stuff in horror: architecture astronautical sins, foolish arrogance, too much complexity... Although for good programmers, hubris might be a virtue: https://avdi.codes/the-…
Comment linking /the-three-virtues/
on “Holden's Lightning Flight”Submitted RSpec Is for the Literate (2011) as a story · 47 points
HN discussionToo much attachment to UNIX CLI programming models by some developers. Here is a nice example of REPL driven development with Smalltalk. https://avdi.codes/in-which-i-make-you-hate-ruby-in-7-minute...
Comment linking /in-which-i-make-you-hate-ruby-in-7-minutes/
on “Programming at the REPL (2018)”Submitted Agents Aren't Juniors, They Are Amnesiac Spies as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHe didn't take it down. Just changed the Title a tiny bit which broke the link. https://avdi.codes/blog/
Comment linking /blog/
on “On Gatekeeping, Complicity, and Arrival”Submitted Ivar: Ruby's Missing Instance Variable Typo Warnings as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe direct link isn't working anymore but you can still see the post easily at the top of his blog. https://avdi.codes/blog/
Comment linking /blog/
on “On Gatekeeping, Complicity, and Arrival”Submitted On Gatekeeping, Complicity, and Arrival as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe correct link is this one: https://avdi.codes/on-gatekeeping-complicity-and-arrival/
Comment linking /on-gatekeeping-complicity-and-arrival/
on “On Gatekeeping, Complicity, and Arrival”Submitted What Is the Ruby Legacy? as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> You can remap keys on any keyboard layout "Yeah but" now you're mucking around with software. It's not simply plug-and-play. From its first paragraph, this 2012 article acknowledges that it was sparked by a HN discussion¹ about another article² and that the HN discussion already covered the remapping solutions you are again proposing 12 years later. This article offers the Japanese keyboard idea as an alternative…
Comment linking /underscores-are-stupid/
on “Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012)”Submitted New project, new tech stack? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://avdi.codes/moom/ has some pair sessions
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on “Ask HN: Recorded Pair Programming Sessions?”Submitted Enough with the Service Objects Already as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Cope with Technology FOMO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Is the Programmer Inspo? (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Preface to an Unwritten Programming Language Book as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Throw, Catch, Raise, Rescue – I’m So Confused as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted There’s always money in the banana stand as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spend $350 on a Computer Keyboard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Small, sharp tools can cut you as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tools for Turning Descriptions into Diagrams as a story · 2 points
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