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James Forbes
Personal blog · james-forbes.com/postsprogrammingweb
James Forbes's personal blog at james-forbes.com covers programming and web. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Perfect API”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his post on Fantasy Land, which one commenter calls an amazing explanation of the topic. Another links a post on an alternative to NPM scripts using bash functions.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- The Perfect API2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-14
What Hacker News says?
James Forbes has an amazing article explaining Fantasy Land. https://james-forbes.com/?/posts/the-perfect-api
Comment linking /?/posts/the-perfect-api
on “Fantasy Land 1.0”Submitted (React) Hooks and Streams as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSee also https://james-forbes.com/#!/posts/alternative-to-npm-scripts Which uses `eval "$@"` and bash functions, which let one pass arguments to your scripts. If you call the script file `run`, you end up with `bash run my-task`.
Comment linking /
on “Getting rid of NPM scripts”Submitted Intro to Streams for Data Modelling as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perfect API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parsing the Cohost Export with DuckDB as a story · 1 points
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