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Life & fun · August 22, 2016

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Ridiculously over-engineered my blog

Ridiculously over-engineered my blog launched on August 22, 2016 with 15 votes, #1,721 of 3,856 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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Pony Foo is a personal blog built as an intensive learning project in Node.js development. The site demonstrates extensive engineering with nearly 3,000 commits and features developed over several years. Created by someone seeking to move beyond their comfort zone after reading The Pragmatic Programmer, Pony Foo serves as both a functional blog and a detailed case study in web application development, showcasing features built to teach specific technical concepts.

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With almost 3000 commits on record, I’m pretty sure that Pony Foo is one of the most, if not the most , over-engineered blogs ever. This article goes over how it all began as a learning experience, how it continued to be a learning experience, and how it still is a learning experience. At the same time, we’ll take a look at the features I’ve built over the years, and what each has taught me along the way. Teaching myself how to develop a Node.js application. That was Pony Foo’s mission upon launch . I had just read The Pragmatic Programmer and I had to get out of my comfort zone – a burning desire to try out new stuff. This article isn’t about me. Okay, it’s a little about me. It’s also…from ponyfoo.com

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