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Company blog · clock.co.uk/blogwebprogramming

Clock Limited is the company blog at clock.co.uk, writing about web and programming. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “How to create a private npm.js repository”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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14mentions?
10HN people?
2012–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Clock's tech blog for a how-to on setting up a private npm registry backed by CouchDB. The company also appears as a sponsor of a NodeConf thread.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Clock is a UK-based digital agency creating scalable platforms, websites, and apps for global brands in publishing, gaming, travel, and beyond.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to create a private npm.js repository
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-20
  2. JavaScript Frameworks in 2016
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. mcantelon · 2013-12-06
    The npm registry can be replicated as CouchDB is the underlying data store. http://clock.co.uk/tech-blogs/how-to-create-a-private-npmjs-...

    Comment linking /tech-blogs/how-to-create-a-private-npmjs-repository

    on “Why I hate virtualenv and pip”
  2. tomgallacher · 2012-11-20

    Submitted How to create a private npm.js repository as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  3. topfunky · 2012-07-10
    Sponsored by: Clock http://clock.co.uk/ Geekli.st http://geekli.st/community/nodeup PeepCode https://peepcode.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “A massive NodeConf special”
  4. serby · 2018-01-16

    Submitted 5 Tips for Remote Working as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. tariqali34 · 2016-05-17
    Not all those downloads are for actual projects. Many people have set up their own private "npm repositories" so that if they actually need to use a node package, they can just download from their private repos rather than downloading from npmjs (which be slow or down). The catch is that since they don't know what packages from npm they have to end up downloading, and disk space is very cheap, it is much easier and…

    Comment linking /blog/how-to-create-a-private-npmjs-repository

    on “Ask HN: Just how many developers am I competing against?”
  6. tomgallacher · 2012-07-12

    Submitted Automated Cross Browser Testing: The Holy Grail as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. niallobrien · 2016-03-04

    Submitted JavaScript Frameworks in 2016 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Midasx · 2016-03-01

    Submitted JavaScript Frameworks in 2016 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. clockltd · 2013-05-09

    Submitted What's in your responsive toolkit? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. clockltd · 2013-02-22

    Submitted Prevent this uncaught exception from crashing your node.js server as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. weareclock · 2016-03-09

    Submitted A Simple Website in Node.js – 2016 Edition as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. ceriii_b · 2015-07-30

    Submitted Should we support IE8 and if so, to what extent? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. ceriii_b · 2015-07-22

    Submitted Why Did You Get into Coding? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. clockltd · 2013-03-14

    Submitted Where to next after Reader? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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