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Cameron Spear

Personal blog · cameronspear.com/blogprogrammingweb

Cameron Spear's personal blog at cameronspear.com covers programming and web. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “A DIFFerent, Better Approach to Database Migrations in PHP”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2014–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a practical fix to gulp watch errors, which an HN commenter points to via a gulp-plumber post. The thread discussion is about Gulp and HTML transpilers.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Thoughts and stuff.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A DIFFerent, Better Approach to Database Migrations in PHP
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. This is easily handled with gulp-plumber: http://cameronspear.com/blog/how-to-handle-gulp-watch-errors...

    Comment linking /blog/how-to-handle-gulp-watch-errors-with-plumber/

    on “Gulp.js: The streaming build system”
  2. Submitted A DIFFerent, Better Approach to Database Migrations in PHP as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. I've been using variations of HTML traspilers for a couple of years now. First versions were in PHP with native DOMDocument parser; more recently implemented in Node.js. The core engine is really small. There's a registry of custom tags, and it walks the parsed tree of tags, runs callbacks, building the final HTML string. The rest of the functionality depends on registered tags. A tag can render HTML, CSS classes, s…

    Comment linking /blog/a-different-and-better-approach-to-database-migrations-in-php/

    on “Ask HN: Usefulness of CSS Framework agnostic html tags transpiler?”
  4. Submitted A DIFFerent, Better Approach to Database Migrations in PHP as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Handling Sync Tasks with Gulp JS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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