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Christoffer Artmann
Personal blog · artmann.co/articlesprogrammingweb
Christoffer Artmann's personal blog at artmann.co covers programming and web. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “30 years of <br> tags”. 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 readers link this blog's 30-years-of-br-tags article to explain how JavaScript the language and its tooling evolved, and to answer complaints about JS developers.
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?
- 30 years of <br> tags2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-13
- React on the server is not PHP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-06
What Hacker News says?
Everyone trash talking the JS ecosystem without contributing the slightest to the conversation would benefit a lot if they read https://www.artmann.co/articles/30-years-of-br-tags in order to understand the evolution of the language and its tooling. Nobody argues what we currently have is great and that we shouldn't look to improve it. Reducing it to "JS developers bad" is an embarrassing statement and just shows ig…
Comment linking /articles/30-years-of-br-tags
on “The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat”Submitted 30 years of <br> tags as a story · 224 points
HN discussionI believe if you read this article https://www.artmann.co/articles/30-years-of-br-tags your "wtf is wrong with js developers" question will be answered.
Comment linking /articles/30-years-of-br-tags
on “The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat”Submitted React on the server is not PHP as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted React on the server is not PHP as a story · 2 points
HN discussion