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caines.ca
Personal blog · caines.ca/blogprogrammingcareer
caines.ca is a personal blog at caines.ca about programming and career. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “The Sun is Setting on Rails-Style MVC Frameworks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a commenter's own account of migrating a JavaScript codebase to TypeScript with strict settings. The comments do not judge the post's 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.
Notes on making useful software with teams, quality, and better feedback loops.
Most-linked posts?
- The Sun is Setting on Rails-Style MVC Frameworks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-24
- In Defense of the Office2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-12
What Hacker News says?
I droned on and on about it in a blog post once if you're interested: http://caines.ca/blog/programming/in-defense-of-the-office/ . In my experience, it's waaaay more efficient for developers to be in the same room if you do it right, though I'm starting to think I might have a minority opinion on that.
Comment linking /blog/programming/in-defense-of-the-office/
on “Manifesto for Async Software Development”Submitted The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks as a story · 222 points
HN discussionI just finished something similar: http://caines.ca/blog/2018/12/11/a-javascript-to-typescript-... We opted to keep it strict (no implicit `any`) through the entire transition but only apply it to ts files, so we are indeed completely free of type errors now. We only have 50 cases of (explicit) `any` in 85K+ LOC and they're in type def files. Let me be the first person you've met to doubt the value of the type syste…
Comment linking /blog/2018/12/11/a-javascript-to-typescript-conversion-case-study/
on “The TypeScript Tax”Submitted The Node.js Community is Quietly Changing the Face of Open Source as a story · 134 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sun is Setting on Rails-Style MVC Frameworks as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Release-ophobia as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted So I wrote a JSON API Framework and the Framework was the Least Interesting Part as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agile, the Good Parts as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted HyperJSON as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The sun is setting on MVC frameworks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How you do QA is probably terrible as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Don't Miss the Sprint as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Defense of the Office as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Return of the Spec: Why AI agents are reviving the software specification as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A JavaScript to TypeScript Conversion Case Study as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks as a story · 1 points
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