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Dillon Shook
Personal blog · dillonshook.comprogrammingcareer
Dillon Shook's personal blog at dillonshook.com covers programming and career. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “How Hard is your Email to Say? (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Dillon Shook's posts cover how to pronounce oklch and a critique of React hooks. Commenters link them as reference in a Tailwind CSS thread and a React discussion, without judging the writing.
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Dillon Shook - Autodidact & Zero One Infinity Advocate
Most-linked posts?
- How Hard is your Email to Say? (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-03
- A Critique of React Hooks Addendum2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-07
- /how-do-you-pronounce-oklch/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-22
What Hacker News says?
I also did a benchmark between cloud providers recently and compared performance for price https://dillonshook.com/postgres-cloud-benchmarks-for-indie-...
Comment linking /postgres-cloud-benchmarks-for-indie-devs/
on “Migrating from AWS to Hetzner”Submitted What it takes to make a game by yourself as a story · 350 points
HN discussionhttps://dillonshook.com/ I've been mostly posting game dev related things lately but try to add posts whenever I come across something that would be helpful to many people.
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year as a story · 292 points
HN discussionOk Lunch :) https://dillonshook.com/how-do-you-pronounce-oklch/
Comment linking /how-do-you-pronounce-oklch/
on “What are OKLCH colors?”Submitted A Critique of React Hooks as a story · 247 points
HN discussionIn case you're wondering how to pronounce it... https://dillonshook.com/how-do-you-pronounce-oklch/
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on “Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1”Submitted What do you visualize while programming? as a story · 116 points
HN discussionIt's more of a hype train than a "zeitgeist". Major community contributors like Jared Palmer have stepped forward in the past year to critique the complexity of React hooks. https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/react-is-becoming-a-black-box https://dillonshook.com/a-critique-of-react-hooks-addendum/ Personally, I think blindly adopting the latest frontend trends is the opposite of being "radically pragmatic".
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on “React Fundamentals: What I’m Learning”Submitted Passion over Profits as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Critique of React Hooks Addendum as a story · 73 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Hard is your Email to Say? (2020) as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where did all the tech bloggers go? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted What language am I writing in again? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How hard is your email to say? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web 4.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failing Upwards Again: A terminal postmortem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Planned App-Solescence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Best Software Development Lifecycle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tradeoffs in Testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Reach Is More Than You Think as a story · 1 points
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