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Angus Croll

Personal blog · blog.anguscroll.comprogrammingwriting

Angus Croll's personal blog at blog.anguscroll.com covers programming and writing. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “The Oxford Comma and The Internet”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.

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15mentions?
15HN people?
2013–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

The only comment is an off-topic reply about a theorem in a thread on writing code by hand, which the linked post is about. It does not discuss the writing, so the blog's posts are described rather than judged.

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.

Angus Croll | Twitter Engineer, JavaScript Obsessive, Literature Junkie. Wrote that Hemingway thing.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Oxford Comma and The Internet
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-19
  2. If Edgar Allan Poe wrote JavaScript
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-23
  3. If Kerouac wrote JavaScript
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. runarberg · 2026-02-09
    I haven’t seen that theorem, but I believe it (and it kind of makes sense actually). If proven it is certainly a nice one. There are so many functions that we know is impossible to even write down, let alone calculate, analytically. In fact the number of real valued functions we can write down and compute analytically is infinitesimal compared to all real valued functions. It is nice to know that there exists a meth…

    Comment linking /if-kerouac-wrote-javascript/

    on “I am happier writing code by hand”
  2. mrcoffee · 2013-07-09

    Submitted If Kerouac wrote JavaScript as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  3. bronnie · 2013-02-19

    Submitted The Oxford Comma and The Internet as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  4. bookofjoe · 2024-02-19

    Submitted The Oxford Comma and the Internet (2013) as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  5. cartesian · 2013-05-23

    Submitted If Edgar Allan Poe wrote JavaScript as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  6. theanalyst · 2013-03-19

    Submitted How to Read a Book as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  7. JacksonGariety · 2013-10-11

    Submitted Tupac does JavaScript as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. laidlaw · 2013-03-20

    Submitted How to Read a Book as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. basket_case · 2013-02-09

    Submitted Animals writing JavaScript as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. managaress · 2013-09-27

    Submitted Macbeth laments using a callback instead of a promise as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. pumpkinella · 2013-10-13

    Submitted Nabokov, Salinger, Tupac do JavaScript as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. boy_racer · 2013-09-26

    Submitted Macbeth's Lost Callback as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. shawndumas · 2013-07-09

    Submitted If Kerouac wrote JavaScript (and Dr Johnson wrote CoffeeScript) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. e-topy · 2025-05-28

    Submitted If Edgar Allan Poe Wrote JavaScript (2023) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. mazel_tov · 2013-05-25

    Submitted If Edgar Allan Poe wrote JavaScript... as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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