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Aaron Quint

Personal blog · quirkey.com/blogprogrammingweb

Aaron Quint writes QuirkeyBlog, a personal blog at quirkey.com about programming and web. Since 2009, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Client-Side Frameworks Suck”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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11HN people?
2009–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in one commenter's list of programming blogs they read, and in advice about learning JavaScript. The comments say nothing about the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Client-Side Frameworks Suck
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here are the ones in my reader, admittedly I haven't visited often enough over the past couple of months: http://www.igvita.com/ http://ejohn.org/ http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/ (Denny covers assembly and networking issues often in great detail) http://buhrmi.tumblr.com/ http://elegantcode.com/ http://72lions.com/ http://kellabyte.com/ (mobile-ish dev) http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://ihumanable.com/blog htt…

    Comment linking /blog

    on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”
  2. Submitted Sammy.js, CouchDB, and the new web architecture as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  3. Focus on continuing to learn JS well. Try to make the time you spend carry it's own weight. Don't waste time learning JS frameworks just for the sake of learning JS frameworks. Instead, build something that you or someone else will use. Otherwise, learn JS well well enough so that you understand what the framework does and why it would help you. Then you can answer this question yourself. Also, there is this post by…

    Comment linking /blog/2012/09/04/client-side-frameworks-suck/

    on “Ask HN: Which JavaScript framework is worth investing time in?”
  4. Submitted Client-Side Frameworks Suck as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Lessons from working for startups as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The ghetto of the mind as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Managing People as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Artists not Hackers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Flash Rules as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Aaron Quint: #-ish as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Code for Other People as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Sammy 0.6 released as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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