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Aaron Francis
aaronfrancis.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2013
Aaron Francis, a developer, writes about MySQL query performance, PHP, and working habits, including logging off and trying hard.
What HN saysHN links it for database performance posts such as deferred-join pagination and distance queries; the given comment only mentions his Yii writing.
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Most-shared posts
- 1An Argument for Logging Off4 people · 13 points · first shared 2024 · 2 comments on HN
- 2Do literally anything2 people · 131 points · first shared 2024 · 25 comments on HN
- 3What if you tried hard?2 people · 5 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 4What if you tried hard?2 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 5Read the Docs Like a Book2 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 6Efficient Pagination Using Deferred Joins1 people · 71 points · first shared 2022 · 32 comments on HN
- 7Efficient Distance Querying in MySQL1 people · 61 points · first shared 2021 · 16 comments on HN
- 8Show HN: I Moved into My Home Office/Shed1 people · 18 points · first shared 2021 · 9 comments on HN
- 9Count(*) vs. COUNT(id) in MySQL1 people · 6 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 10You're always doing something wrong1 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 11Is Making Software Sisyphean?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 12Bitmasking in Laravel and MySQL1 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 13A cookieless, cache-friendly image proxy in Laravel1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 14File Based Routing in Inertia.js1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 15Make 5x faster outbound requests in Laravel (2024)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
aarondf · 2013-07-14
I've written a lot on Yii/Heroku if you care to look: http://aaronfrancis.com/?tag=Yii. I love Yii, it's certainly my go-to for PHP frameworks at this point. It's super powerful.