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Gregory Schier
Personal blog · schier.co/blogprogrammingstartups
Gregory Schier's personal blog at schier.co covers programming and startups. Since 2013, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Pure HTML Share Buttons”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments identify the author as the maker of Insomnia, an API client, in threads about API clients like Bruno and Postman. They do not discuss the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on software, technology, and life.
Most-linked posts?
- Pure HTML Share Buttons4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-04
- Abandoning the Static Site2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-23
- Pros and Cons of Procedural Level Generation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-26
- Productive Procrastination2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-14
- From Indie to Acquisition: Insomnia Acquired by Kong2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-09
- The Perfect Static Website Generator Is the One You Write Yourself2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-02
What Hacker News says?
Heyo, looks like it's Gregory Schier, the maker of Insomnia: https://schier.co/
Comment linking /
on “Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)”Submitted Pure HTML Share Buttons as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI'm stealing your thread to ask a question: How would you explain what an API Client is to someone who's never used one before, and has always just consumed/produced/tested API's the old-fashioned way? Is it basically "an IDE for playing with API's"? Is it only for HTTP-based API's? Does it come with canned functionality for popular services out there? I read this but still don't feel like I fully understand what it…
Comment linking /blog/call-for-beta-testers
on “Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down”Submitted Wait for User to Stop Typing, in JavaScript as a story · 25 points
HN discussionThe one thing I'll shine light on here is that open source has been a huge benefit to Insomnia thus far. It has allowed the community to drive decisions, submit feedback, and make the application much more robust. Kong was born from the same model for its core product so we no plans to change that. A thriving open source community is a huge advantage. If you're curious, you can read more about the acquisition from m…
Comment linking /blog/indie-to-acquisition
on “Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing”Submitted A Simple Web Scraper in Go as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBooks (free): - Javascript Patterns https://shichuan.github.io/javascript-patterns/ : Good for wrapping your brain around scoping and how things flow in JS. It's a very nimble language. While you won't use every single one, internalizing their concepts are central to be efficient in wrangling JS and reading other's. - Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture https://addyosmani.com/largescalejavas…
Comment linking /blog/2013/11/14/method-chaining-in-javascript.html
on “Ask HN: Experienced JavaScript programmers, what are your recommendations?”Submitted Creating a Pure CSS Dropdown Using the :hover Selector as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Productive Procrastination as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Indie to Acquisition: Insomnia Acquired by Kong as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim and I – A Love Story (2014) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Pure HTML Share Buttons as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Next Stop, Yaak as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a home-grown web analytics tool as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pure HTML Share Buttons as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indie – A Competitive Advantage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple web scraper in Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Add Colorful Cows to Your Terminal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching from Vim to IntelliJ as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perfect Static Website Generator as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perfect Static Website Generator Is the One You Write Yourself as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim and I – A Love Story as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pure HTML Share Buttons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pure HTML Share Buttons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Productive Procrastination as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Abandoning the Static Site as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quit with Positivity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Launching Is Terrifying as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Abandoning the Static Site as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Calling Them “Side Projects” as a story · 2 points
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