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Domenic Denicola
Personal blog · domenic.me · on HN as domenicdprogrammingwebai
Domenic Denicola's personal blog at domenic.me covers programming, web and ai. Since 2013, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “You're missing the point of promises”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Domenic Denicola's website
Most-linked posts?
- You're missing the point of promises3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-08-20
- On the Streams Standard3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-28
- Windows native app development is a mess2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-22
- Spaced repetition systems have gotten better2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-18
- /hacktoberfest/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-22
- My Agentic Coding Setup, July 20262 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-23
What Hacker News says?
I remember the Digital Ocean "t-shirt gate" scandal, where people would add punctuation to README files of random repositories to win a free t-shirt. https://domenic.me/hacktoberfest/ It wasn't fun if you had anything with a few thousand stars on Github.
Comment linking /hacktoberfest/
on “You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here”Submitted Spaced repetition systems have gotten better as a story · 1026 points
HN discussionWhich spaced repetition algorithm are you using? I recently learned that there is a much improved one that has been adopted by Anki. ( https://domenic.me/fsrs/ ) Have you adopted that as well?
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on “Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor”Submitted Peer Dependencies as a story · 21 points
HN discussionHere is a much better explanation, in Javascript: http://domenic.me/2012/10/14/youre-missing-the-point-of-prom...
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on “Guido van Rossum Deconstructing Twisted's Deferreds”Submitted My Participation in the METR AI Productivity Study as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> Just add a country IP ban, we all know who is submitting these reports. As much as I'd like to see Russia, China and India disconnected off of the wide Internet until they clean up shop with abusive actors, the Hacktoberfest stuff you're likely referring to doesn't have anything to do with your implication - that was just a chance at a free t-shirt [1] that caused all the noise. In ye olde times, you'd need to tak…
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on “AI Slop vs. OSS Security”Submitted ES6 Iterators, Generators, and Iterables as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou're making an argument about callback aggregation. That is just one of the features that promises enable. The seminal article on the topic is Domenic Denicola's "You're Missing the Point of Promises." http://domenic.me/2012/10/14/youre-missing-the-point-of-prom...
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on “JavaScript Promises in Wicked Detail”Submitted You're Missing the Point of Promises (2012) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionits not useful to conclude anything about callbacks without considering rigorous error handling, which is of course the whole point of promises [1] [1] http://domenic.me/2012/10/14/youre-missing-the-point-of-prom...
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on “Long live the callbacks”Submitted Explaing Away the Web's Magic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionjQuery loosely follows the Promises/A spec [1], so Q.js [2] might have been better choice. [1] http://domenic.me/2012/10/14/youre-missing-the-point-of-prom... [2] http://documentup.com/kriskowal/q/#
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on “Promises/A+ - understanding the spec through implementation”Submitted My Agentic Coding Setup, July 2026 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInfecting with React can be easily explained by pathetic state of desktop application development environment. See https://domenic.me/windows-native-dev/
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on “Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating”Submitted My Agentic Coding Setup, July 2026 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://domenic.me Editor Domenic Denicola's website
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on “Promises guide from W3C has beautiful ECMAScript 6 programming style”Submitted On the Streams Standard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI led the design effort on this API, before retiring. Here's my writeup on some of the considerations that went into it: https://domenic.me/builtin-ai-api-design/
Comment linking /builtin-ai-api-design/
on “The Prompt API”Submitted The Wrong Work, Done Beautifully as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Onward as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're missing the point of promises as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Streams Standard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows native app development is a mess as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Streams Standard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing the Built-In AI Web APIs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Extensible Web (adapted from LXJS presentation) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strict Mode = Static Scoping - Hidden Variables as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Peer Dependencies - Hidden Variables as a story · 1 points
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