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Jamie Magee

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Jamie Magee's personal blog at jamiemagee.co.uk covers programming and web. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Honey, I shrunk the NPM package · Jamie Magee”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
4HN people?
2018–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link Jamie Magee's blog for posts on shrinking NPM packages, including one on adding Brotli support to NPM packages, and as a personal blog home page. The comments do not judge the writing.

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?

  1. Honey, I shrunk the NPM package · Jamie Magee
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-03
  2. Making the most of GitHub rate limits
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's the Brotli supporter's blog post about adding Brotli support to NPM packages. https://jamiemagee.co.uk/blog/honey-i-shrunk-the-npm-package... and the related HN discussion from that time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37754489

    Comment linking /blog/honey-i-shrunk-the-npm-package/

    on “My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%”
  2. Submitted Honey, I shrunk the NPM package · Jamie Magee as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://jamiemagee.co.uk

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  4. Submitted Your Jest tests might be wrong as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Making the most of GitHub rate limits as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Making to most of GitHub rate limits as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Twitter Hashflags (Hash-what?) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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