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Clinton Blackburn
Personal blog · dev.clintonblackburn.com · on HN as clintonbprogrammingcareer
Clinton Blackburn's personal blog at dev.clintonblackburn.com covers programming and career. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Upgrading TypeORM with Jscodeshift”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
A series of first world problems
Most-linked posts?
- Upgrading TypeORM with Jscodeshift2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-16
What Hacker News says?
They have amazing external documentation. It was so good I [blogged about it]( https://dev.clintonblackburn.com/2015/07/24/good-documentati... )! I have never had an easier experience integrating with a payment processor.
Comment linking /2015/07/24/good-documentation-makes-me-happy/
on “Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber”Submitted My Breakup as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMaintenance is my primary concern. I deal with software for a living. I want my blog to just work without me having to worry about maintaining the VM. Netlify makes this dead simple. I used to host Wordpress sites for myself and family members. I've now moved nearly all of those sites to Netlify (for hosting) and Forestry (for editing/CMS). I no longer have to worry about malicious hacking attempts, Wordpress update…
Comment linking /2019/03/31/wordpress-to-jekyll/
on “Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains”Submitted A Rant about APIs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI built an app for this: https://dev.clintonblackburn.com/fitsync
Comment linking /fitsync
on “Fitbit is now officially part of Google”Submitted Notes for New Hires as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI use [Forestry]( https://forestry.io ). I migrated from Wordpress, and needed a way for my non-technical family members to continue editing their blogs. Details at https://dev.clintonblackburn.com/2019/03/31/wordpress-to-jek... .
Comment linking /2019/03/31/wordpress-to-jekyll/
on “Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform”Submitted Migrating Subscriptions to Stripe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI got tired of dealing with WordPress. I moved to Jekyll hosted on Netlify. I use Forestry as a frontend. You can read more at https://dev.clintonblackburn.com/2019/03/31/wordpress-to-jek... .
Comment linking /2019/03/31/wordpress-to-jekyll/
on “Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform”Submitted Git Remaster as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI completely agree that support matters. What I like about both Stripe and Braintree is that both have great documentation that make integration super-simple. (I liked their docs so much that I blogged about them: http://dev.clintonblackburn.com/2015/07/24/good-documentatio... ) I have integrated with CyberSource and PayPal. CyberSource took a week. PayPal took a couple days. Braintree and Stripe? A few hours! Besid…
Comment linking /2015/07/24/good-documentation-makes-me-happy/!
on “Stripe Checkout in more languages”Submitted WordPress to Jekyll as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> I have seen recommendations for "static-site generators", but it's beyond me. If a static site generator is beyond you, stick with WordPress and focus on creating good content. I got tired of managing a WordPress MU installation (although, I still have one un-migrated site), and moved to Jekyll. I wrote about the migration at https://dev.clintonblackburn.com/2019/03/31/wordpress-to-jek... .
Comment linking /2019/03/31/wordpress-to-jekyll/
on “Ask HN: Which CMS do you recommend for starting up a blog?”Submitted Interviews Suck as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Miss People as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nested Dynamic Modules in NestJS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading TypeORM with Jscodeshift as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading TypeORM with Jscodeshift as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing the AMC Theatres App as a story · 1 points
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