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Alex MacArthur

Personal blog · macarthur.me/postsprogrammingweb

Alex MacArthur's personal blog at macarthur.me covers programming and web. Since 2019, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Let's Bring Back JavaScript's `With()` Statement”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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21mentions?
15HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2025

I'm a software engineer in Nashville, bossing around computers in made-up languages.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Let's Bring Back JavaScript's `With()` Statement
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-29
  2. There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Let's Bring Back JavaScript's `With()` Statement as a story · 13 points

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  2. Submitted DNS Resolution Adds Up as a story · 4 points

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  3. Submitted There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted Using sibling parameters as default values in JavaScript functions as a story · 3 points

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  5. Submitted Modern JavaScript Module Loading in the Browser as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted I think the ergonomics of generators is growing on me. as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted I didn't know you could compose template literal types in TypeScript as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Short-Lived, Tick-Bound Memoization in JavaScript as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Let's Bring Back JavaScript's `With()` Statement as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Your Cache Headers Could Probably be More Aggressive as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Elegant Memoization with Ruby’s .tap Method as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted You’ve Got Options for Removing Event Listeners as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Options for Preloading Images with JavaScript as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Some request headers are more trustworthy than others as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Let's Bring Back JavaScript's `With()` Statement as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted There Are a Lot of Ways to Hide Stuff in the Browser as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted For Maximum Accessibility, Be Careful About Using a .dev Domain as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Why I Like Using Maps (and WeakMaps) for Handling DOM Nodes as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted For the Sake of Your Event Listeners, Use Web Workers as a story · 1 points

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