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Andi Smith

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Andi Smith's personal blog at andismith.com covers programming, web and career. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “25 Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-13, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
6HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Andi Smith's blog for a 2011 post on jQuery's .on() and .off() methods, covering the changes and benefits. The site also covers technology leadership and CTO/VP Engineering experiences.

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.

Andi Smith is a CTO based in London, UK

Most-linked posts?

  1. 25 Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. funksta · 2011-11-20Recommends
    There's a nice article about transitioning to .on() and .off(), including the changes and benefits, at: http://www.andismith.com/blog/2011/11/on-and-off/

    Comment linking /blog/2011/11/on-and-off/

    on “90% Good parts of jQuery - at only 13% of the size”
  2. Submitted 25 Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://www.andismith.com/ My personal site where I blog about technology leadership and CTO/VP Eng experiences.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  4. Submitted Hands on with Firefox’s Developer Tools as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted 25 Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Undefined Roles: Pe as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Modernizr Prefixed addresses the pain of vendor prefixes in css and javascript as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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