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Bolinfest Changeblog
Personal blog · blog.bolinfest.comprogrammingweb
Bolinfest Changeblog is a personal blog at blog.bolinfest.com about programming and web. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Michael Bolin's changeblog for posts on the Google Closure tools, TypeScript-to-Closure generation, and developing Atom packages, including how Facebook's Atom packages are built.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /2013/01/generating-google-closure-javascript.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-02
What Hacker News says?
It does look like an interesting library. It's weird that the community seems so small. Here is Michael's blog: http://blog.bolinfest.com/ And the HN discussion from when it was first open sourced: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=924426 Compiler : http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/ Library : http://code.google.com/closure/library/ (UI / widgets) Templates: http://code.google.com/closure/templates/
Comment linking /
on “The jQuery Divide:Understand where jQuery ends and JavaScript begins”Submitted Jquery.com uses only 34% of jQuery as a story · 19 points
HN discussionRelatedly, this is how Facebook develops and releases their ~40 Atom packages: http://blog.bolinfest.com/2015/10/hacking-on-atom-part-ii-bu... Totally different from the "standard" way and works really well for them. Disclaimer: I used to manage the Nuclide team at Facebook.
Comment linking /2015/10/hacking-on-atom-part-ii-building.html
on “Developing Atom Packages, Part 2: So Much Potential, So Many Bugs”Submitted GData: I can't take it anymore as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIdeally TypeScript will honor the Closure source annotations like this http://blog.bolinfest.com/2013/01/generating-google-closure-...
Comment linking /2013/01/generating-google-closure-javascript.html
on “Scoping in CoffeeScript and JavaScript”Submitted Writing useful JavaScript applications in less than half the size of jQuery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMore on the background behind this project: http://blog.bolinfest.com/2013/01/generating-google-closure-...
Comment linking /2013/01/generating-google-closure-javascript.html
on “Show HN: TypeScript to Google Closure”Submitted Trying out the Amazon Associates Program as a story · 1 points
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