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Azat Mardan
Personal blog · webapplog.com · on HN as azat_coprogrammingstartups
Azat Mardan writes webapplog [tech blog], a personal blog at webapplog.com about programming and startups. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “Nobody will Train You but You | webapplog”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-21, 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 Azat Mardan's blog for JavaScript and Node.js material, especially a Node-specific test-driven development guide using mocha. Another post covers handling 64-bit tweet IDs in JavaScript.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Nobody will Train You but You | webapplog2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-11
What Hacker News says?
Not as useful as it could be since it has special syntax that isn't supported in JSON where not having 64-bit ints is one of the bigger issues. https://webapplog.com/decreasing-64-bit-tweet-id-in-javascri... The JSON use case was even one of the motivations behind BigInt in the first place: https://twitter.com/sampullara/status/981634718964707328
Comment linking /decreasing-64-bit-tweet-id-in-javascript/
on “Adding BigInts to V8”Submitted I will puke if I hear array search interview question again as a story · 23 points
HN discussionHere's a good article[1] I read the other day by the often exuberant Eric Elliott. Edit: Another good article[2] that's also node specific using mocha, which I really like and is in my estimation the most used. 1. https://medium.com/javascript-scene/what-every-unit-test-nee... 2. http://webapplog.com/tdd/
Comment linking /tdd/
on “Ask HN: How I do learn more about test driven development?”Submitted PHP vs. Node.js as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pilot Rapid Prototyping with JavaScript and NodeJS Class as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3RES: A DIY-Meteor Stack with React, Redux, RethinkDB, and Socket.io as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven Things You Should Stop Doing In Node.js as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Your Job Is Becoming a Commodity and Might Even Disappear as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Node.js OAuth1.0 and OAuth2.0: Twitter API v1.1 Examples as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody will Train You but You | webapplog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NodeConf 2013 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Express.js Tutorial: Instagram Gallery Example App with Storify API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rapid Prototyping with JS: Agile JavaScript Development v0.5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rapid Prototyping with JS: Agile JavaScript Development Update v0.4 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wintersmith — Node.js static site generator | Web App Log as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Querying 20M-Record MongoDB Collection | Web App Log as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Common Technical Questions for Early-Stage Startups | WebAppLog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Online Education Overview as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenList.co - OpenSource Ad Classified Website Application as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Decrease Chances of Success in a Startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Help to build new social network for entrepreneurs - Accelerator.IO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 15 things I learned from 500 Startups (aka Fail Factory) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You dont know node as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Published as a Programmer: The Practical Node.js Story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Factory of Good Habits as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Six Months with Storify as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not Everything has to be done Server-side | webapplog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody will Train You but You | webapplog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ship Code That Matters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intro to Express.js: Parameters, Error Handling and Other Middleware | webapplog as a story · 1 points
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