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Dwayne Charrington
Personal blog · ilikekillnerds.comprogrammingweb
Dwayne Charrington writes I Like Kill Nerds, a personal blog at ilikekillnerds.com about programming and web. Since 2012, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Things Every JavaScript Developer Should Know”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for web development posts, such as a file upload progress tutorial, and a 2025 post on Anthropic acknowledging Claude Code problems. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal blog of Dwayne Charrington, an Australian front-end developer writing about JavaScript, Aurelia, AI, music gear, brewing, and whatever else gets stuck in his head.
Most-linked posts?
- Things Every JavaScript Developer Should Know2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-09
What Hacker News says?
I actually touched upon this in a blog post I wrote last month: http://ilikekillnerds.com/2013/09/rumours-of-pcs-demise-have... — and I said exactly this. A bad economy coupled with the fact people just don't need to upgrade as much any more are reasons PC sales have slowed. The PC will always be around, tablets and smartphones are great, but they're not comfortable for extended periods of time nor as capable. As I…
Comment linking /2013/09/rumours-of-pcs-demise-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/
on “The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones”Submitted PHP Sucks: So What? as a story · 30 points
HN discussionfetch doesn't support upload progress https://javascript.info/fetch-progress > Please note: there’s currently no way for fetch to track upload progress. For that purpose, please use XMLHttpRequest, we’ll cover it later. coming soon (2020) https://ilikekillnerds.com/2020/09/file-upload-progress-with...
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on “The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance”Submitted Why Is Slack Still So Terrible? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionLOL, no, dumbing down was when I paid two months of subscription with the model literally struggling to write basic functions. Something Anthropic eventually acknowledged but offered no refunds for. https://ilikekillnerds.com/2025/09/09/anthropic-finally-admi... I care A LOT about the details, and I couldn't care less that they're cleaning up terminal output like this.
Comment linking /2025/09/09/anthropic-finally-admits-claude-quality-degradation/
on “Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down”Submitted Things Every JavaScript Developer Should Know as a story · 11 points
HN discussionYou can get into IoT using a cheap tablet off of eBay: http://ilikekillnerds.com/2015/10/cheap-ebay-android-tablets... All you need is a device with wifi, preferably running Android as it is more customisable and easier to hack into. For around $50 you can get a decent tablet (no-name brand) with everything you'll ever need (including GPS and sim support). I created a parking inspector sensor at my old workplace bec…
Comment linking /2015/10/cheap-ebay-android-tablets-and-the-internet-of-things-iot/
on “IoT Intro: SMS me when I leave my garage door open”Submitted Choose Aurelia over React (Mostly) (2021) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionNo offence to the author, but they obviously have never developed a website with custom fonts and viewed it in Chrome before... I wrote about this issue in 2010: http://ilikekillnerds.com/2010/12/a-solution-to-stop-font-fa... — Case in point. The company I work for who designed the new Myspace and we did some early HTML prototyping of the site designs and the sad reality is you need to use this font-smoothing fix or…
Comment linking /2010/12/a-solution-to-stop-font-face-fonts-looking-bold-on-mac-browsers/
on “Please Stop "Fixing" Font Smoothing”Submitted HTML BroadcastChannel API as a story · 8 points
HN discussionIt's funny you post this. I published a post on my blog about not being able to release my personal projects because my self-expectations are so high I never end up releasing anything. http://ilikekillnerds.com/2013/06/jfri-just-fucking-release-... — I don't mean to spam my post, I think it's pretty relevant though. I feel your pain and I'm 25, I fear I won't ever release anything but I am learning to embrace the ma…
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on “Ask HN: How do you overcome perfectionism?”Submitted What SQL has taught me: just use an ORM as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aurelia vs. React.js: Based on Actual Use as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted So Long PC World And Thanks For All The Spam as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive Design = W*nker Design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Stopped Building and Started Building Apps to Talk About Building Things as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Love About Aurelia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Avoid Front-End Developer Fatigue – I Like Kill Nerds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Functional Programming in JavaScript? More Like Dysfunctional as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aurelia for Real World Applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things every JavaScript developer should know as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Plan and Envision a Web Application From Start To Finish as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: I'm giving away my startup ideas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unleashing the Llama: Is Meta's Llama 2 Too Safe? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will AI Behemoths Bury StackOverflow in Their Digital Dust? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Native TypeScript Support in the Browser? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recreating Facebook's Celebrate Pride Rainbow Overlay 3 Different Ways Using CSS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of AngularJS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Months (and counting) with Aurelia as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You've not enough minerals as a story · 1 points
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