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Chris James

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Chris James's personal blog at quii.dev covers programming, web and career. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “How to Go Fast”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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14mentions?
6HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Chris James's blog for its material on test-driven development, including a post and talk called The Tests Talk, and he is also known for a Go learning book.

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.

Chris James, London - Software Engineer

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to Go Fast
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. chynkm · 2019-11-15Recommends
    I look upto many persons in the industry who have achieved big milestones. One of them is Chris. His talk and post - https://quii.dev/The_Tests_Talk , will provide you with a tonne of information regarding TDD. If you are into GO, you should definitely check out Chris's book - https://github.com/quii/learn-go-with-tests .

    Comment linking /The_Tests_Talk

    on “Ask HN: Do you write tests before the implementation?”
  2. Submitted The Weight of AI on Engineers as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Scala – Just enough rope to hang yourself (2013) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The ghost of Henry Ford is ruining your development team as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Practical ways to shift QA left as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Web I Want as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Htmx Is the Future as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Tests Talk – Benefits of TDD as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted We Learned This Lesson Already as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Why Build vs. Buy is the wrong question as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Learn Go with Tests reached 20k stars as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted How to Go Fast as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted How My Website Works as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted How to Go Fast as a story · 1 points

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