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Colin Diesh
Personal blog · cmdcolin.github.io/postsprogrammingweb
Colin Diesh writes Misc scribblings, a personal blog at cmdcolin.github.io about programming and web. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “You may not need a bundler for your NPM library”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Misc scribblings by Colin Diesh
Most-linked posts?
- You may not need a bundler for your NPM library2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-30
What Hacker News says?
I had a hard time learning react. I was a reasonably proficient developer but really struggled. Reading "learning react" (O'Reilley) really helped me. Not sure if it's what I'd recommend to others but reading it, offline and not distracted by the web, it helped me. A tldr blog post https://cmdcolin.github.io/posts/2020-07-04
Comment linking /posts/2020-07-04
on “Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?”Submitted You may not need a bundler for your NPM library as a story · 63 points
HN discussionrecently ported old blog to github pages using nextjs ssg, plus has an rss feed https://cmdcolin.github.io/ (post on how I made it https://cmdcolin.github.io/posts/2021-12-26-nextjs )
Comment linking /posts/2021-12-26-nextjs
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted The Devinterrupted'ening of /R/Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think perhaps this (learngenomics.dev) resource is a little too shallow on some levels, but has interesting depth in odd places. I think there is a need to get users up to speed with things like the SAM format, which is very fundamental to 99% "dna sequencing" projects, but it's an odd format in some ways because it's quite low level, so trying to get people to understand how the basics of biology interact with it…
Comment linking /posts/2022-02-06-sv-sam
on “Introduction to Genomics for Engineers”Submitted Making a Twitter Bot with Node.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussioneveryone has a choice in taking on those dependencies. as a solo dev you get to make those choices. In the context of work, it is harder because you have to balance many other needs from technical to just the human squishy feeling of making people's code get accepted and not fighting everyone on every damn thing. It's hard to get everyone on the same page! Not really related to the above but I learned React when I s…
Comment linking /posts/2020-07-04
on “Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development”Submitted You may not need a bundler (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionthis is a random note since I know OP didn't mention RSI, but since you did, I will mention: gotta watch out for putting too much pressure on your elbows with armrests and such. I found this can cause trouble with your pinky finger (sometimes called ulnar tunnel, which is fairly different from carpal tunnel). a post I wrote https://cmdcolin.github.io/posts/2022-07-08-pinky i've not yet started my ergonomic gadgets j…
Comment linking /posts/2022-07-08-pinky
on “Ask HN: What can I do about my declining typing ability as I age?”Submitted The error message for when you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object as a story · 1 points
HN discussionagree that using the API is likely the nicer route. you can also apply for a quota increase, I recently applied for youtube API quota increase to 100,000 units and it was approved for my app ( https://cmdcolin.github.io/ytshuffle/ ) I was concerned they wouldn't like that the app downloads so much data but it was approved without much question, they just wanted terms of service prominently displayed to end users
Comment linking /ytshuffle/
on “Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline”