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Ben Ward

Personal blog · benward.me/blogwebdesign

Ben Ward's personal blog at benward.me covers web and design. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Understand The Web by Ben Ward”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2009–2010first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked post 'understand-the-web' is cited in an HN thread about Joe Hewitt as the post that kicked off that round of discussion. The comment only links it and does not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Understand The Web by Ben Ward
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-05-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. A post by Ben Ward seems to have kicked off this round: http://benward.me/blog/understand-the-web The Ward post is up on HN, but so far without much discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1312650

    Comment linking /blog/understand-the-web

    on “Tell HN: Joe Hewitt is at it again”
  2. Submitted Understand The Web by Ben Ward as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Concerning Flash and HTML5 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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