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blueskyonmars.com
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blueskyonmars.com is a personal blog at blueskyonmars.com about programming and web. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “What Server Side JavaScript needs”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on fuzzy matching for quick-open search in code editors, and on server-side JavaScript standards. Commenters cite them as references for search scoring and related projects, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What Server Side JavaScript needs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-01-29
What Hacker News says?
For Brackets, I went with something that's not a regex because I wanted certain parts of the string to be "special": http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2013/03/26/brackets-quick-open-... But, I'll definitely look up a couple of the links that people have posted here about some other algorithms (Smith-Waterman, for example).
Comment linking /2013/03/26/brackets-quick-open-thats-no-regex/
on “Sublime Text Ctrl+P Like Fuzzy Matching In Few Lines of Python”Submitted Side Effects vs. Promises as a story · 52 points
HN discussionThe big thing missing from this, in my opinion, is scoring. If you have a large list of items, having no idea which of the 500 matches is the likeliest match, given what users would expect, makes it kind of useless. http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2013/03/26/brackets-quick-open-...
Comment linking /2013/03/26/brackets-quick-open-thats-no-regex/
on “Fuzzysearch: Tiny, fast fuzzy searching for JavaScript”Submitted JSConf EU 2010 Review as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThis group http://groups.google.com/group/serverjs (kicked off by this post: http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2009/01/29/what-server-side-jav... ) is working on a cross-interpreter standard library, a module system, etc. It just started last week, but people from many of the major server side (and some client side) JavaScript projects are already involved. If you're interested in helping out, take a look.
Comment linking /2009/01/29/what-server-side-javascript-needs/
on “K7: a standard library for the V8 Javascript interpreter”Submitted The Tale of the Merry Squid: Teaching Programming with Minecraft as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted CommonJS: the First Year as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Server Side JavaScript needs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted No viable market for open source consumer desktop software (2005) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking About the Developer Experience for the Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python packaging/install: what I want as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Server Side JavaScript Needs (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Side Effects vs. Promises as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub adds a command line, and so should you as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Server Side JavaScript Needs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSConf 2009: the best conference you couldn’t attend as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to the Bespin Python backend as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ServerJS: one week into building a better JavaScript as a story · 1 points
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