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Jared Palmer
Personal blog · jaredpalmer.com/blogprogrammingaistartups
Jared Palmer's personal blog at jaredpalmer.com covers programming, ai and startups. Since 2019, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Gatsby vs. NextJS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jared Palmer's posts on React, Formik, and Gatsby vs Next.js, and his critique of React hooks complexity. The comments cite these posts as references rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Gatsby vs. NextJS5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-06-27
- React is becoming a black box2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-03
- /formik/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-03
- GitHub isn't fun anymore2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-16
What Hacker News says?
I’ve heard people are pretty happy with Formik. https://jaredpalmer.com/formik/
Comment linking /formik/
on “React as a UI Runtime”Submitted GitHub isn't fun anymore as a story · 646 points
HN discussionI'd personally try NextJS, it's a lot easier than Gatsby. This is the main article that turned my mind after trying both: https://jaredpalmer.com/gatsby-vs-nextjs
Comment linking /gatsby-vs-nextjs
on “Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary”Submitted React is becoming a black box as a story · 439 points
HN discussionUnrelated to Actions. Jared Palmer, the author of this Tweet, has done well for himself. I remember him as the author of Turborepo which Vercel gobbled up a few years ago. https://jaredpalmer.com/about
Comment linking /about
on “GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions”Submitted There are only 5,000 elite software engineers in the world (2025) as a story · 25 points
HN discussionIt's more of a hype train than a "zeitgeist". Major community contributors like Jared Palmer have stepped forward in the past year to critique the complexity of React hooks. https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/react-is-becoming-a-black-box https://dillonshook.com/a-critique-of-react-hooks-addendum/ Personally, I think blindly adopting the latest frontend trends is the opposite of being "radically pragmatic".
Comment linking /blog/react-is-becoming-a-black-box
on “React Fundamentals: What I’m Learning”Submitted Gatsby vs. NextJS as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI've always pointed folks to Gosha Arinich's posts on forms in React [0], as the best resource out there, particularly the post on "controlled vs uncontrolled inputs" [1]. (And if you really want to go in depth, he wrote a book on the topic as well. [2]) If you're looking for libs to help abstract working with more complex forms, Formik [3] and React Final Form [4] are probably your two best options. [0] https://gos…
Comment linking /formik/
on “React Mental Models: Working with Input”Submitted Why I’m Done with Gatsby as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub Isn’t Fun Anymore as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kev as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gatsby vs. Next.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On static site generation: Gatsby vs. Next.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to add AI to your app without knowing anything about AI as a story · 1 points
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