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EmNudge
Personal blog · emnudge.dev/blogprogrammingweb
EmNudge is a personal blog at emnudge.dev about programming and web. Since 2023, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “React is a fractal of bad design”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal dev blog by EmNudge. Linked posts cover a grand theory of humor and why React's state and re-renders cause problems. Commenters cite them as related reading without judging the writing.
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.
Personal website for EmNudge
Most-linked posts?
- React is a fractal of bad design5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-02-22
- What Happened to WebAssembly3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-31
What Hacker News says?
This is a very interesting way of putting it. The way I’ve explained it is “unserious surprise” which also fits with this. https://emnudge.dev/blog/a-grand-theory-of-humor/
Comment linking /blog/a-grand-theory-of-humor/
on “Comedy Theory (2022)”Submitted Markov chains are funnier than LLMs as a story · 525 points
HN discussionIt's a combination of many things, but imo one of the worst is all the footguns regarding state and the rerenders they cause https://emnudge.dev/blog/react-hostage It's so easy, that we monkey patch react to debug it https://github.com/welldone-software/why-did-you-render Plus the vdom... Isn't great, the bundle size puts react at an inherit disadvantage, and the community has a knack for over reliance on bloated pa…
Comment linking /blog/react-hostage
on “Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp”Submitted What Happened to WebAssembly as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted React is a fractal of bad design as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Happened to WebAssembly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Typing Speed Does Matter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted React Is Holding Me Hostage (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted React Is Holding Me Hostage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Happened to WebAssembly as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Write Better – A Guide for Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted React Is Holding Me Hostage – A love and hate relationship as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted React Is Holding Me Hostage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing the Perfect RGB Regex and Failing as a story · 1 points
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