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Andy Ray
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Andy Ray's personal blog at blog.andrewray.me covers programming and productivity. Since 2014, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “ReactJS for Stupid People (2014)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Andy Ray's blog for beginner-friendly React and Flux explanations, such as "ReactJS for Stupid People". Other posts cover JSX, a git blame alternative, and AWS hosting costs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Andy Ray's blog about technology, nutrition, and personal growth.
Most-linked posts?
- ReactJS for Stupid People (2014)7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-09-25
- Flux for Stupid People (2014)7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-12-02
- /youre-missing-the-point-of-jsx/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-06
What Hacker News says?
I had this same initial reaction, but concluded as others have that this architectural approach was not actually a separation of concerns but merely an unwieldy separation of technologies: http://blog.andrewray.me/youre-missing-the-point-of-jsx/ When you start thinking in components it becomes much nicer to have the styling, logic and layout all in one file, isolated from the rest of the application and easy to edit…
Comment linking /youre-missing-the-point-of-jsx/
on “Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework”Submitted ReactJS for Stupid People (2014) as a story · 66 points
HN discussionYou're missing the point of JSX http://blog.andrewray.me/youre-missing-the-point-of-jsx/
Comment linking /youre-missing-the-point-of-jsx/
on “Why I moved from Angular to React”Submitted My First AWS “Free Tier” Hosting Bill Was $990 as a story · 55 points
HN discussionGreat article on subject: http://blog.andrewray.me/flux-for-stupid-people/
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on “Redux: Atomic Flux with Hot Reloading”Submitted The ReactJS Controller View Pattern as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI started last week and got decently up to speed with these three articles: [1] "ReactJS for Stupid People" - this explains what React is in simple meaningful terms. [2] "React.js Introduction For People Who Know Just Enough jQuery To Get By" - this shows you how things are usually done with just jQuery compared to how it's done in React. It really allows you to see why the jQuery way sucks. [3] "Flux For Stupid Peo…
Comment linking /flux-for-stupid-people/
on “React in patterns”Submitted Towards a Strong Mental Model of Docker as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI agree with andwaal that reflux is the simplest way so far that I've seen. I think what is really lacking is a demonstration application which isn't just "hello world" or the standard todo app rewritten in React. I just don't find that helpful. For another overview, see this article: http://blog.andrewray.me/reactjs-for-stupid-people/ Please don't take offence at the title, I didn't write it :D
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on “AngularJS 1.3.0”Submitted Flux for Stupid People (2014) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIt's been my experience, especially in the startup scene where business requirements change often, that `git blame` rarely shows you what you want. Files get renamed, moved, re-indented, etc, frequently. I wrote a tutorial on a more effective (at least for me) solution to find the true author of a change: http://blog.andrewray.me/a-better-git-blame/
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on “Git-blame-someone-else – Blame someone else for your bad code”Submitted ReactJS for Stupid People as a story · 9 points
HN discussionReactJS for Stupid People is an excellent place to start: http://blog.andrewray.me/reactjs-for-stupid-people/
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on “Ask HN: What are some good React tutorials?”Submitted Flux for Stupid People as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMy favorite part is how half of the screenshots include a clearly marked "Free Usage Tier" option that OP did not select https://blog.andrewray.me/content/images/2018/03/Screen-Shot... Dark UI indeed. https://blog.andrewray.me/content/images/2018/03/aws-rds-now...
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on “My First AWS “Free Tier” Hosting Bill Was $990”Submitted Flux for stupid people as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlso a good follow-up regarding "Flux" here: "Flux for stupid people" http://blog.andrewray.me/flux-for-stupid-people/
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on “ReactJS for Stupid People”Submitted ReactJS for Stupid People as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ReactJS for Stupid People as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Better Git Blame as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flux for Stupid People as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ReactJS for Stupid People as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Wouldn't Understand as a story · 1 points
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