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Iffy Can

Personal blog · iffycan.blogspot.comprogrammingweb

Iffy Can is a personal blog at iffycan.blogspot.com about programming and web. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “What I wish Puppet and Salt would do differently”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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12mentions?
4HN people?
2013–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The one comment is in an Ember.js 1.0 RC4 thread and discusses Angular directives and transclusion, citing an egghead video. It does not mention or judge this blog's writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. What I wish Puppet and Salt would do differently
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-05
  2. Angular service or factory?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. marknutter · 2013-05-28
    Learning directives, services, and the scary sounding "transclusion" has not been an issue at all for my team and I who are using angular on a very large project and loving it. Directives are quite simple once you understand the basic principles. Transclusion when actually explained ( http://www.egghead.io/video/cjrBTjMvruI ) is a trivial and obvious concept. I understand the confusion one may have around services/f…

    Comment linking /2013/05/angular-service-or-factory.html

    on “Ember.js 1.0 RC4 released”
  2. iffycan · 2013-05-24

    Submitted Angular service or factory? as a story · 83 points

    HN discussion
  3. iffycan · 2013-08-15

    Submitted Practical event-driven programming with Python and Twisted as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. iffycan · 2013-05-10

    Submitted Stop #$%&, please as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. iffycan · 2013-09-17

    Submitted When GitHub is down, BitTorrent Sync saves the day as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. iffycan · 2013-07-10

    Submitted AngularJS Injection: How does it know? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. iffycan · 2014-09-23

    Submitted Be encouraged; everyone starts somewhere as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. iffycan · 2013-10-07

    Submitted Tell, don't Ask. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. magmatt · 2013-02-05

    Submitted What I wish Puppet and Salt would do differently as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. iffycan · 2013-12-16

    Submitted YNO-phasic Sleep as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. iffycan · 2013-08-22

    Submitted AngularJS: AJAX Upload as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. 0xdeadbeefbabe · 2013-06-24

    Submitted What I wish puppet and salt would do as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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