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Calvin Metcalf
Personal blog · calvinmetcalf.comprogrammingweb
Calvin Metcalf writes Tumblr, a personal blog at calvinmetcalf.com about programming and web. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment in the thread links to this blog, an image on the site, with a sarcastic aside about ECMAScript 6 modules. The comment does not discuss 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.
What Hacker News says?
Usually I ignore recruiter spam, but a while back I got this one that started off with the line > I recently came across your blog (one picture of your cat had me dying). I'm fairly certain the recruiter did not read the whole blog post [1] because it is a eulogy for my dead cat. Normally I'm fairly calm and try to be understanding and empathetic especially for people just doing their job, but this put me in such a…
Comment linking /post/94533627852/a-thousand-days-of-kublai
on “I Am a Recruiter (a.k.a Spammer) at Amazon”Submitted No I didn't use the Web Crypto API as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI'm not really seeing the speed on a fairly realistic perf [1] involving communicating with a web worker. Wrote a big blog post looking into this a couple weeks back [2]. [1]: http://jsperf.com/promise-comparisons/55 [2]: http://calvinmetcalf.com/post/61761231881/javascript-schedul...
Comment linking /post/61761231881/javascript-schedulers
on “Bluebird – A full-featured, fast promises library for JavaScript”Submitted Porting Node.js crypto to the browser, part 1: all about ciphers as a story · 10 points
HN discussionDon't worry it only gets better soon with ECMAScript 6 Modules http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:modules or does it? http://calvinmetcalf.com/image/75296462861
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on “JavaScript Module Loaders Considered Harmful”Submitted Porting Node.js crypto to the browser, part 2 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Map Projections are Fundamentally Broken as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PouchDB 2.0.0 is out as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adventures in Rust part II: modules and control flow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Porting Node.js crypto to the browser, part 3: RSA and DSA as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Regex + eval = crazy delicious as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If your arguing about promises VS callbacks you're doing it wrong as a story · 1 points
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