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Chris Wren

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Chris Wren's personal blog at chrisawren.com covers programming and web. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Learning Advanced JavaScript via the Backbone.js source code”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4HN people?
2013–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post on learning advanced JavaScript by studying annotated source code, pointing to annotated Backbone and Underscore sources as examples to read.

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 Wren's personal website

Most-linked posts?

  1. Learning Advanced JavaScript via the Backbone.js source code
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-06-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. Both have annotated source code http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html http://chrisawren.com/posts/Learning-Advanced-JavaScript-via...

    Comment linking /posts/Learning-Advanced-JavaScript-via-the-Backbone-js-source-code

    on “Ask HN: What source code is worth studying? ”
  2. Submitted Implementing microstates in Backbone.js as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Learning Advanced JavaScript via the Backbone.js source code as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Learning Advanced JavaScript via the Backbone.js source code as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Intro to Grunt via the Cabin static site generator as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Tools and Strategies for node.js Development on GitHub as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Advanced Grunt tooling as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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