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James Kyle

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James Kyle writes jamie: the website, a personal blog at thejameskyle.com about programming and web. Since 2016, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Adopting Flow and Typescript”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2016–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this post on adopting Flow and TypeScript, citing its graph vs AST comparison and the point that Flow gives more type coverage faster. Readers use it as a reference in type-checker discussions.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Adopting Flow and Typescript
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-06-13
  2. Spectacle CodeSlide: Present code with style
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-03-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. jbucaran · 2017-06-27
    Same here. Flow is great though and you can use it without annotations too, just not as useful. See: http://thejameskyle.com/adopting-flow-and-typescript.html

    Comment linking /adopting-flow-and-typescript.html

    on “Show HN: 1kb JavaScript library for building front end applications”
  2. thejameskyle · 2016-03-26

    Submitted Spectacle CodeSlide: Present code with style as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. naiveattack · 2017-06-13
    Graph vs AST approach, although I cannot speak for its veracity. http://thejameskyle.com/adopting-flow-and-typescript.html

    Comment linking /adopting-flow-and-typescript.html

    on “TypeScript 2.4 RC”
  4. v4n4d1s · 2017-06-12

    Submitted Dear JavaScript as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. amccloud · 2017-07-06
    You get more type coverage faster with flow. http://thejameskyle.com/adopting-flow-and-typescript.html

    Comment linking /adopting-flow-and-typescript.html

    on “Ask HN: Do You Prefer Typescript or Flow? Why?”
  6. pvinis · 2017-08-15

    Submitted Adopting Flow and Typescript as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. mxstbr · 2017-08-01

    Submitted Styled-theming: Create themes for your app using styled-components as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Garbage · 2017-06-15

    Submitted Adopting Flow and TypeScript as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. uitgewis · 2017-06-12

    Submitted JavaScript's new #private class fields as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. fibo · 2016-04-27

    Submitted Present code with style as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. ingve · 2016-04-10

    Submitted Spectacle CodeSlide: Present code with style as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. josep2 · 2016-03-27

    Submitted Spectacle Code Slide as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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