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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.
I'm a software engineer in Nashville, bossing around computers in made-up languages.
Most-linked posts?
- Let's Bring Back JavaScript's `With()` Statement3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-29
- There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-03
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Let's Bring Back JavaScript's `With()` Statement as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted DNS Resolution Adds Up as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using sibling parameters as default values in JavaScript functions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern JavaScript Module Loading in the Browser as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I think the ergonomics of generators is growing on me. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I didn't know you could compose template literal types in TypeScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Short-Lived, Tick-Bound Memoization in JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Bring Back JavaScript's `With()` Statement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Cache Headers Could Probably be More Aggressive as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elegant Memoization with Ruby’s .tap Method as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You’ve Got Options for Removing Event Listeners as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Options for Preloading Images with JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some request headers are more trustworthy than others as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Bring Back JavaScript's `With()` Statement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There Are a Lot of Ways to Hide Stuff in the Browser as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted For Maximum Accessibility, Be Careful About Using a .dev Domain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Like Using Maps (and WeakMaps) for Handling DOM Nodes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted For the Sake of Your Event Listeners, Use Web Workers as a story · 1 points
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