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James Long
Personal blog · archive.jlongster.comprogrammingweb
James Long's personal blog at archive.jlongster.com covers programming and web. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “How I became a better programmer (2017)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link James Long's archive of older posts, including the 'Removing User Interface Complexity' post on UI frameworks and his Gambit Scheme open-source write-up. The archive page itself gets attention for its interactive design.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
James Long's blog
Most-linked posts?
- How I became a better programmer (2017)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-09-07
What Hacker News says?
Opening this, on desktop, left me speechless with an open mouth: https://archive.jlongster.com/ You can explore it with the mouse cursor.
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on “A future for SQL on the web”Submitted How I became a better programmer (2017) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI remember him from the Gambit Scheme days. https://archive.jlongster.com/Open-Sourcing-My-Gambit-Scheme...
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on “A future for SQL on the web”Submitted I Became a Better Programmer (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm not working on Obsidian, but I'm also building a desktop app with Electron now and a non-obvious performance tip is to offload things from the main process to a separate child process and use something like node-ipc to communicate. Especially if you use sqlite3 to store data (even though it has an API with callbacks, it's blocking). https://medium.com/actualbudget/the-horror-of-blocking-elect... https://news.yco…
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on “Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go”Submitted How I Became a Better Programmer (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAre you maybe thinking of this classic post? - https://archive.jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Comple...
Comment linking /Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-Why-React-is-Awesome
on “If not React, then what?”I think prettier's initial author answered the question quite concisely in the article's first link. Title and excerpt copied below: > Dig into past research. > If you're excited about an idea, it's super tempting to sit down an immediately get going. But you shouldn't do that until you've done some cursory research about how people have solved it before. Spending a few days researching the topic always completely c…
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on “Why is Prettier rock solid?”
