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Elise Hein
Personal blog · elisehe.inwebdesign
Elise Hein's personal blog at elisehe.in covers web and design. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Using the Platform”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link her post on how developers search, which sorts developer queries into categories such as ad-hoc how-tos, API recall and troubleshooting. One commenter says it explains these categories nicely.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Developer and interaction designer.
Most-linked posts?
- Using the Platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-20
What Hacker News says?
We empirically find that most developer searches fall into a few categories consistent with this paper [0]. The author explains these categories nicely in her blog post [1]. It sounds like you're describing 4/6 of these categories: ad-hoc how-tos, understanding an API / recalling forgotten details, and troubleshooting. We currently do well at answering "ad hoc how-to" questions and are working to improve our answers…
Comment linking /i/googledrivendevelopment.pdf
on “Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers”Submitted Where's the fun in accessibility? as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted The wasted potential of CSS attribute selectors as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using the Platform as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting inter-component HTML bloat (2023) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using the Platform as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
