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An experiment in publishing code and words about code on a small scale.

191 mentions on Hacker News by 66 people: 120 stories, 71 comments · first 2008-10-29 · latest 2026-04-23

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  1. …at all even on solo work, and the Birthday Paradox you mention has already bitten a friend of mine: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-04-0... So while I was ranting a bit about the process vs. tools issue, I…
    comment by raganwald · 2009-11-06 · in Thank you, Rails
  2. …whether I have a pair of coconuts clamped to my ears and I'm waving palm fronds under an empty sky. http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-02-1...
    comment by raganwald · 2009-10-25 · in What we actually know about software development, and why we believe it’s true
  3. Much clearer than: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-03-0...
    comment by raganwald · 2009-10-24 · in Scalable computer programming languages
  4. No, vice versa, Raganwald links to the Reddit post ( http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-10-0... )
    comment by tlrobinson · 2009-10-10 · in I Don't Code in my Free Time
  5. …sugar to Ruby like implied parameters so you can write things like: some_array.map(&'+ 1'): http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-11-2... The implementation is hideous: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/20…
    comment by raganwald · 2009-09-09 · in Eval() Isn't Quite Pure Evil
  6. …the MissingObject pattern." I strongly agree. Adding stuff to nil can have unintended consequences: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-02-0...
    comment by raganwald · 2009-09-08 · in True, False And Nil Objects In Ruby
  7. …be a permanent addition, it's just a handy place for me to dump stuff that doesn't have a home yet. http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/tree/master/dumping_g... It reflects how I felt at the time but it doesn't reflect what I wanted to…
    comment by raganwald · 2009-08-30 · in I don't care why you won't write for iPhone/Android/PHP/Rails/Mac
  8. I can't believe raganwald's homoiconic hasn't been mentioned yet: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/tree/master
    comment by icey · 2009-08-26 · in Ask HN: What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs?
  9. The Fibonacci implementation here: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-12-1... Does a pretty quick job using plain-old-old-ruby (POOR Implementation): time ruby /Users/raganwald/Desktop/matrix_fib.rb 102334155 real…
    comment by raganwald · 2009-08-26 · in Introducing Surinx (Ruby syntax w/ Java typing)
  10. http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-05-0... why is awesome. he's one of the big reason I'm a ruby programmer. He's contributed so much to the community, and he doesn't owe anybody anything. If he deleted all his repos,…
    comment by gfunk911 · 2009-08-19 · in _why is no more
  11. When I wrote this post about "Finding Joy in Combinators" it got a fair bit of link and upmod love: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-11-1... I'd say there's some passion and curiosity about concatenative languages.…
    comment by raganwald · 2009-08-19 · in Joy in Factor
  12. Reminds me or a story I read a few weeks back: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-06-2... . Asking for profile information as part of an interview process is not popular around here; I'd suggest scrubbing your earlier…
    comment by rwolf · 2009-08-06 · in Why your company should hire open source developers
  13. I'm not a huge fan of trying to make One UndefinedObject To Rule Them All: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-02-0...
    comment by raganwald · 2009-05-15 · in Null Is Not Empty
  14. …Extension Methods rewriter: http://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails/blob/master/lib/re... Context: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-04-2...
    comment by raganwald · 2009-04-30 · in Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?
  15. …got hell on earth. For more information, take a look at some of the discussion about Array#sum: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-04-0...
    comment by Psyonic · 2009-04-12 · in Clean Programming Language: the insanely great, the weird and the short-sighted
  16. …a higher-level function that takes a function as an argument and does something recursive with it. http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-11-2...
    comment by raganwald · 2009-04-08 · in I'm Sick of This
  17. No, it was a great read :-) I like what you're doing with http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic
    comment by gommm · 2009-03-12 · in Why HN is slow lately
  18. …to the content, so that the top metadata blocks are hidden: Just add #readme to the URL, as such: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-01-2...
    comment by thamer · 2009-01-22 · in Old
  19. …files? Just a quick Firebug mockup: http://skitch.com/defunkt/bb6p7 Btw, the raw is pretty readable: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/raw/master/2009-01-21...
    comment by defunkt · 2009-01-21 · in Old
  20. My bad, the link really should be: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/tree/master/2008-11-0...
    comment by raganwald · 2008-11-05 · in Quirky Birds and Meta-Syntactic Programming
  21. http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/tree/master/2008-10-3...
    comment by raganwald · 2008-10-30 · in The Thrush (raganwald)