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Ashley Watson-Nolan

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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.

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34mentions?
14HN people?
2014–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2014

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?

  1. Front End Tooling Survey 2016 Results
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-30
  2. Are we getting too Sassy? Weighing up micro-optimisation vs. maintainability
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-29
  3. The Front-End Tooling Survey 2018 – Results
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-09
  4. The State of Front-End Tooling
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-08
  5. The Front-End Tooling Survey 2019
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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?”
  2. Submitted Front End Tooling Survey 2016 Results as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  3. mattlondon · 2022-01-31Recommends
    https://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”
  4. Submitted The State of Front-End Tooling as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted 4,715 Developers Surveyed on the Front-End Tools They Use as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Front-End Tooling Survey 2018 – Results as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The State of Front-End Tooling 2016 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Front-end tooling survey 2016 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Playing around with CSS text-shadow as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Getting started with the OS X terminal as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The fall and rise of SVG: How SVG is more relevant than ever as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Front-End Tooling Survey 2019 Results – 63% of devs don't check accessibility as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted React voted JS framework that most developers regard as essential to them as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Results of front end tooling survey 2015 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The State of Front-End Tooling as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted A Guide to the Front-End Interview Process as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Creating 3d button effects with box shadows and border radius as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Are we getting too Sassy? Weighing up micro-optimisation vs. maintainability as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted The Front-End Tooling Survey 2019 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted The Front-End Tooling Survey 2019 – Results as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Front-End Tooling Survey 2018 – The Results as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Front-End Tooling Survey Closes This Week as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Front-end Tooling Survey as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted PostCSS – An Unbiased Review as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Help to Get Picture and Srcset Fully Implemented in Microsoft Edge as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Kickoff V5 Released as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Playing around with CSS text-shadow as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted A collection of cool loading effects using CSS transforms and animations as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Writing CSS (and SASS) that doesn’t suck as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted A Retort on Simplicity as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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