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Harry Garrood
Personal blog · harry.garrood.me/blogprogramming
Harry Garrood's personal blog at harry.garrood.me covers programming. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Why the PureScript community uses Bower and not npm”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Harry Garrood's posts on PureScript tooling, especially 'Why the PureScript community uses Bower', to explain why Bower was chosen over npm. The comments cite the post without judging it.
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.
I’m a software engineer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. My interests include getting computers to behave, helping other people get computers to behave, open source, maths, and music.
Most-linked posts?
- Why the PureScript community uses Bower and not npm3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-29
- Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-12
What Hacker News says?
As others have mentioned, psc-package can be used so there is no "need" for Bower. "Why the PureScript community uses Bower" explains why Bower was chosen: http://harry.garrood.me/blog/purescript-why-bower/ I don't understand why Bower is such a sticking point for people. It works perfectly fine for PureScript and (as the article explains) was the right tool for the job.
Comment linking /blog/purescript-why-bower/
on “Reason 3”Submitted Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer as a story · 521 points
HN discussionBower is definitely not dying, and in fact Npm is totally unsuited for some communities http://harry.garrood.me/blog/purescript-why-bower/
Comment linking /blog/purescript-why-bower/
on “Show HN: cookies.js, making cookies a delight to work with on the front-end”Submitted Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Down with Show: Rules of thumb for when to use a type class as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the PureScript community uses Bower and not npm as a story · 2 points
HN discussion