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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.

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55mentions?
10HN people?
2012–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 26 in 2013

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.

The author on HN?

azat_co · 269 karma · member since 2012

Entrepreneur, web development expert: Node.js and others. http://azat.co http://webapplog.com http://twitter.com/azat_co

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Nobody will Train You but You | webapplog
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted I will puke if I hear array search interview question again as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  3. Here'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?”
  4. Submitted PHP vs. Node.js as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Pilot Rapid Prototyping with JavaScript and NodeJS Class as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted 3RES: A DIY-Meteor Stack with React, Redux, RethinkDB, and Socket.io as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Seven Things You Should Stop Doing In Node.js as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted How Your Job Is Becoming a Commodity and Might Even Disappear as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Node.js OAuth1.0 and OAuth2.0: Twitter API v1.1 Examples as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Nobody will Train You but You | webapplog as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted NodeConf 2013 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Express.js Tutorial: Instagram Gallery Example App with Storify API as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Rapid Prototyping with JS: Agile JavaScript Development v0.5 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Rapid Prototyping with JS: Agile JavaScript Development Update v0.4 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Wintersmith — Node.js static site generator | Web App Log as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Querying 20M-Record MongoDB Collection | Web App Log as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Most Common Technical Questions for Early-Stage Startups | WebAppLog as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Online Education Overview as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted OpenList.co - OpenSource Ad Classified Website Application as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted How to Decrease Chances of Success in a Startup as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Help to build new social network for entrepreneurs - Accelerator.IO as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted 15 things I learned from 500 Startups (aka Fail Factory) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted You dont know node as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Getting Published as a Programmer: The Practical Node.js Story as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted The Factory of Good Habits as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted First Six Months with Storify as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Not Everything has to be done Server-side | webapplog as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Nobody will Train You but You | webapplog as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Ship Code That Matters as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Intro to Express.js: Parameters, Error Handling and Other Middleware | webapplog as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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