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Chasen Le Hara
Personal blog · chasenlehara.com/blogprogrammingdesign
Chasen Le Hara's personal blog at chasenlehara.com covers programming and design. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “API First and Only Features”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters discuss this blog's posts on building APIs alongside apps and on getting data out of Twitter and Facebook, citing Tweet Nest as an example. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- API First and Only Features2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-23
What Hacker News says?
I think it can be a pain to get at the information at facebook.com and twitter.com, but both have APIs that make it relatively easy to pull out information. I haven’t seen a similar product for Facebook, but Tweet Nest ( http://pongsocket.com/tweetnest/ ) is a step in the right direction for Twitter. It makes it easy to download browse, and search your tweets on your own server. Here’s an example (my own tweets): ht…
Comment linking /tweets/
on “Facebook Messaging: scorned by nerds, built for teens like candy-covered crack”Submitted API First and Only Features as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don’t think it’s a good idea to build an API and then build an app; when you first work on an API and an app, I think it’s important to build the API with the app. Earlier this year I wrote a blog post that mentioned this[1], but in short: great apps have great user experiences, so working on the app’s user experience should be one of the first things you do. If you’re able to figure out exactly what you’ll need i…
Comment linking /blog/api-first-and-only-features/
on “Why you absolutely MUST write an API when you write your next app”Submitted Sharon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wading Through The OAuth 2.0 Specification as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Unwritten Human Interface Guidelines for iOS 4.2 as a story · 1 points
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