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Inconsistently Insightful

Personal blog · blog.methvin.comprogrammingweb

Inconsistently Insightful is a personal blog at blog.methvin.com about programming and web. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Tragedy of the WebKit Commons”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2011–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Matthew Methvin's blog for posts on jQuery, WebKit patches and the HTML.js DOM library. The only comment disputes a claim about jQuery's WebKit fixes.

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.

Tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it may contradict everything you said today. -- Emerson

Most-linked posts?

  1. Tragedy of the WebKit Commons
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. I don't think this is true: "jQuery Core has more lines of fixes and patches for WebKit than any other browser." [1] [1] http://blog.methvin.com/2013/02/tragedy-of-webkit-commons.ht...

    Comment linking /2013/02/tragedy-of-webkit-commons.html

    on “HTML.js – Befriend the DOM”
  2. Submitted Tragedy of the WebKit Commons as a story · 120 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Running out of Lipstick as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted You Might Not Need Babel as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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