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Ashok Khanna
Personal blog · ashok-khanna.medium.comprogrammingweb
Ashok Khanna's personal blog at ashok-khanna.medium.com covers programming and web. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2022, 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 Ashok Khanna's Medium tutorials on CSS selectors, TypeScript and Emacs dired mode. One commenter calls the TypeScript guide a good introduction to the language.
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.
What Hacker News says?
I wrote (what I hope) is a great read to CSS selectors, check it out if you are keen for a nice intro to this important topic: https://ashok-khanna.medium.com/rounded-tables-an-elusive-dr...
Comment linking /rounded-tables-an-elusive-dream-5f00709f6521
on “You want enabling CSS selectors, not disabling ones”Submitted Factors Affecting Software Quality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis was a good guide on TypeScript that I found online: https://ashok-khanna.medium.com/introduction-to-typescript-c...
Comment linking /introduction-to-typescript-c3fd1374fd90
on “Extreme explorations of TypeScript's type system”Submitted Rounded Tables in HTML: An Elusive Dream as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLisp is a wonderful language (Common Lisp in particular, but I am dabbling in Scheme now too), and absolutely fantastic for web development - seriously people should give it a chance in that space, I would totally develop any SPA in Lisp[1]. QuickLisp is simply a joy to use, and the language is very portable with a fantastic specification and many top notch compilers. IMO, what holds it back is a lack of a top notch…
Comment linking /lisp-the-web-4c00c88d11f9
on “Lisp as an Alternative to Java (2000)”In case it is not apparent to others, Lisp-Stat (OP of this story) and singaporecode (parent commenter here) are different people. The account singaporecode and a few other related accounts really look dubious. They are promoting a few websites created by the same author: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ashok%20khanna&type=all The comments by singaporecode where they say "I should sponsor the guide’s author" (when the…
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on “New Lisp-Stat Release”I prefer dired mode, it’s pretty easy to get a handle of https://ashok-khanna.medium.com/introduction-to-dired-mode-9...
Comment linking /introduction-to-dired-mode-91cecd3a06ff
on “F.el: Modern API for working with files and directories in Emacs”