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Ashley Watson-Nolan
Personal blog · ashleynolan.co.uk/blogwebprogramming
Ashley Watson-Nolan writes AshleyNolan.co.uk, a personal blog at ashleynolan.co.uk about web and programming. Since 2014, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Front End Tooling Survey 2016 Results”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a beginner guide to the Mac terminal and for a 2016 frontend tooling survey cited in a discussion of web development complexity.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Front End Tooling Survey 2016 Results3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-30
- Are we getting too Sassy? Weighing up micro-optimisation vs. maintainability2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-29
- The Front-End Tooling Survey 2018 – Results2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-09
- The State of Front-End Tooling2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-08
- The Front-End Tooling Survey 20192 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-13
What Hacker News says?
My field is web development, and, to be honest, the most exciting thing going on is that more people are starting to complain about the complexity of development. Hopefully this will lead to people slowing down and learning how to write better web software. As an example, one survey ( https://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2016-... ) put the number of developers who don't use any test tools at almost…
Comment linking /blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2016-results
on “Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?”Submitted Front End Tooling Survey 2016 Results as a story · 20 points
HN discussionhttps://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/getting-started-with-terminal has some very basic stuff for mac terminal (n.b. these are also largely identical to linux too, so bonus!). No relation to the site, just found it from googling and looks to cover off the essentials. That will get you started getting comfortable moving around and doing things, but it doesn't go further than the absolute minimum. It will at least get you st…
Comment linking /blog/getting-started-with-terminal
on “State of the Web: Static Site Generators”Submitted The State of Front-End Tooling as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4,715 Developers Surveyed on the Front-End Tools They Use as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Front-End Tooling Survey 2018 – Results as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of Front-End Tooling 2016 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Front-end tooling survey 2016 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing around with CSS text-shadow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting started with the OS X terminal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The fall and rise of SVG: How SVG is more relevant than ever as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Front-End Tooling Survey 2019 Results – 63% of devs don't check accessibility as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted React voted JS framework that most developers regard as essential to them as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Results of front end tooling survey 2015 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of Front-End Tooling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Guide to the Front-End Interview Process as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating 3d button effects with box shadows and border radius as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are we getting too Sassy? Weighing up micro-optimisation vs. maintainability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Front-End Tooling Survey 2019 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Front-End Tooling Survey 2019 – Results as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Front-End Tooling Survey 2018 – The Results as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Front-End Tooling Survey Closes This Week as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Front-end Tooling Survey as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostCSS – An Unbiased Review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Help to Get Picture and Srcset Fully Implemented in Microsoft Edge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kickoff V5 Released as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing around with CSS text-shadow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A collection of cool loading effects using CSS transforms and animations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing CSS (and SASS) that doesn’t suck as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Retort on Simplicity as a story · 1 points
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