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On record since
Oct 2026
Posts we hold
20
First published
28 Jul 2009
Last published
16 Apr 2013
Last cited
22 Aug 2026
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Blogs linking here · all time

14

different blogs have linked to skorks.com, 14 times in all. The page they cite most is Ruby & (Ampersand) Parameter Demystified, linked by 2 blogs.

Citations by period

in the last 7 days
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in the last 30 days
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in the last 90 days
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first linked here in the last 30 days
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in the directory (last 90 days)
No. 8,144
links from other blogs in the last 90 days
1
Posts per week13 Oct 2025 to 5 Oct 2026

Not enough history yet to draw a trend.

Blogs linking here per week13 Oct 2025 to 5 Oct 2026
Blogs linking here per week, 13 Oct 2025 to 5 Oct 2026: 52 weeks, peak 1 a week, latest week 1

1 last week · peak 1

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Blogs linking here per week, week by week
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Most cited pages

Pages on skorks.com, ranked by how many different blogs link to them.

Most cited pages on skorks.com, page 1
#PageBlogs
1Ruby & (Ampersand) Parameter Demystified/2013/04/ruby-ampersand-parameter-demystified/ (opens in a new tab)2 blogs
2How To Write A Simple Web Crawler In Ruby/2009/07/how-to-write-a-web-crawler-in-ruby/ (opens in a new tab)1 blog
3Building Software Development Expertise – Using The Dreyfus Model/2009/08/building-software-development-expertise-using-the-dreyfus-model/ (opens in a new tab)1 blog
4Bash Shortcuts For Maximum Productivity/2009/09/bash-shortcuts-for-maximum-productivity/ (opens in a new tab)1 blog
5Timing ruby code it is easy with benchmark/2010/03/timing-ruby-code-it-is-easy-with-benchmark/ (opens in a new tab)1 blog
6Writing A More Ruby-ish Array Intersection Function And Sorting Structs/2010/03/writing-a-more-ruby-ish-array-intersection-function-and-sorting-structs/ (opens in a new tab)1 blog
7On The Value Of Fundamentals In Software Development/2010/04/on-the-value-of-fundamentals-in-software-development/ (opens in a new tab)1 blog
8Serializing (And Deserializing) Objects With Ruby/2010/04/serializing-and-deserializing-objects-with-ruby/ (opens in a new tab)1 blog
9What Every Developer Should Know About URLs/2010/05/what-every-developer-should-know-about-urls/ (opens in a new tab)1 blog
10Write A Function To Determine If A Number Is A Power Of 2/2010/10/write-a-function-to-determine-if-a-number-is-a-power-of-2/ (opens in a new tab)1 blog

Blogs citing it

Ranked by how many of their posts link here.

Blogs citing skorks.com, page 1
#BlogPostsLinks
1cbpowell.wordpress.com11
2colourcoding.net11
3deterministic.space11
4dev.karltryggvason.com11
5jan's stuffjanromme.com11
6khanlou.com11
7liveatthewitchtrials.blogspot.com11
8lizkeogh.com11
9mayerdan.com11
10number1.co.za11

Posts counts the posts that link here; links counts every link. A blog counts once as a citing blog either way. Atom feed of new citing blogs

Words blogs link it with

The words citing blogs put inside the link, ranked by how many different blogs used them.

The most used link texts for skorks.com
WordsBlogsLinks
alan skorkin’s11
alan skorkin’s post11
blog post11
good11
http://www.skorks.com/2010/12/here-is-the-main-reason-why-you-suck-at-interviews/11

The top 5. The owner of skorks.com sees every phrase after claiming the blog.

Publishing habit

Counted from the 20 posts we hold with a date, in UTC.

Posts in the last 12 months
0
Most posts on
Wednesday (35%)
Quiet since
16 Apr 2013 (4,926 days)
Comebacks after 6 months or more of silence
1 (latest Mar 2013)
Month
Posts
Nov 2025
0
Dec 2025
0
Jan 2026
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Feb 2026
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Mar 2026
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Apr 2026
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May 2026
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Jun 2026
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Jul 2026
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Aug 2026
0
Sept 2026
0
Oct 2026
0
Weekday
Posts, all time
Monday
3
Tuesday
6
Wednesday
7
Thursday
1
Friday
0
Saturday
2
Sunday
1

Sites skorks.com cites

15 sites linked from its posts; the ones linked from the most posts come first.

Sites that skorks.com links to
SitePosts linking
en.wikipedia.org8
amazon.com4
web.archive.org4
docs.ruby-lang.org3
rubygems.org3
GitHub Oldgithub.com2
twitter.com1
gist.github.com1
hibernate.org1
ietf.org1

Recent posts

All 20 posts, by year
The most recent posts on skorks.com
PostOriginal
Ruby & (Ampersand) Parameter Demystified16 Apr 2013Read at skorks.com (opens in a new tab)
Ruby – Why U No Have Nested Exceptions?9 Apr 2013Read at skorks.com (opens in a new tab)
The Best Way To Pretty Print JSON On The Command-Line3 Apr 2013Read at skorks.com (opens in a new tab)
I Was Nominated To Speak At LoneStarRuby Conference 20131 Apr 2013Read at skorks.com (opens in a new tab)
A Closure Is Not Always A Closure In Ruby27 Mar 2013Read at skorks.com (opens in a new tab)
What Is A Startup (Or A Startup Idea)?23 Nov 2011Read at skorks.com (opens in a new tab)
Why Developers Never Use State Machines1 Sept 2011Read at skorks.com (opens in a new tab)
When Developers Go To Great Length To Save Typing 4 Letters24 Aug 2011Read at skorks.com (opens in a new tab)
Even Boring Form Data Can Be Interesting (For A Developer)17 Aug 2011Read at skorks.com (opens in a new tab)
Algorithms, A Dropbox Challenge And Dynamic Programming27 Feb 2011Read at skorks.com (opens in a new tab)

20 posts on record from skorks.com, cited by 14 other distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 12 October 2026).