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Alex Rothenberg

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Alex Rothenberg's personal blog at alexrothenberg.com covers programming and web. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The "Magic" behind AngularJS Dependency Injection”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2011–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Alex Rothenberg's posts on how Angular's dependency injection works behind the scenes and on testing email formatting and sending with letter_opener. The comments only cite or link the posts.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The "Magic" behind AngularJS Dependency Injection
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-02-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. rxcfc · 2013-02-16
    Things like this make me extremely wary of Angular's DI: http://www.alexrothenberg.com/2013/02/11/the-magic-behind-an...

    Comment linking /2013/02/11/the-magic-behind-angularjs-dependency-injection.html

    on “Ember.js 1.0 RC1 released”
  2. pat_shaughnessy · 2013-02-12

    Submitted The "Magic" behind AngularJS Dependency Injection as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. skarmklart · 2013-07-07
    One thing that really impressed me is how Angular does dependency injection, seemingly through magic. This blog explains more: http://www.alexrothenberg.com/2013/02/11/the-magic-behind-an...

    Comment linking /2013/02/11/the-magic-behind-angularjs-dependency-injection.html

    on “AngularJS: an Overview”
  4. thewarrior · 2014-09-29

    Submitted The “Magic” Behind AngularJS Dependency Injection as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. elisee · 2011-10-25
    At first I was misled into thinking this was just a site making fun of contentless startup landing pages. It's actually about testing your email formatting / sending. The full article is located at: http://www.alexrothenberg.com/2011/10/24/using-letter-opener...

    Comment linking /2011/10/24/using-letter-opener-to-view-sent-email-on-a-server.html

    on “Weekend Project: Viral Marketing Done Right”
  6. nonrecursive · 2013-10-29

    Submitted Lets Get Small: Why I Dislike the Module Include Pattern in Ruby as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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