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Eric Bower
Personal blog · erock.prose.shprogrammingweb
Eric Bower writes prose.sh, a personal blog at erock.prose.sh about programming and web. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “TypeScript is terrible for library developers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Eric Bower's blog covers front-end web development challenges and POSIX shell tooling. HN commenters mostly link its posts as related reading, and one defends the blogs as having substantial content.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A journal by Eric Bower
Most-linked posts?
- TypeScript is terrible for library developers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-23
What Hacker News says?
The blogs https://erock.prose.sh/ and https://ben.prose.sh/ do have substantial content. Maybe give it some time?
Comment linking /
on “Prose.sh – A blog platform for hackers”Submitted TypeScript is terrible for library developers as a story · 330 points
HN discussionSame, and I wrote a blog article about it because front end development has a lot of unique challenges. https://erock.prose.sh/my-love-letter-to-front-end-web-devel...
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on “The web is a harsh manager”Submitted Cast iron leet as a story · 251 points
HN discussionSomewhat related, I recently heard of fentas/atty from: https://erock.prose.sh/posix-shell-is-all-you-need
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on “Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical”Submitted React is bad because it's great as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy colleague posted an interested article that addresses the disparity between an end-user of a typescript library and being a library author. As the user of a library, not only do I hope for excellent documentation, but I also hope that the library author have designed an ergonomic API that provides clear and consistent typings when using TypeScript. What I acknowledge I lack is a clear understanding of the level o…
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