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Jeff Mesnil
Personal blog · jmesnil.net/weblogprogrammingculture
Jeff Mesnil's personal blog at jmesnil.net covers programming and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-01, 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 Jeff Mesnil's posts on JavaScript, including a list of JavaScript lessons he wished he had learned earlier and a comparison of the JavaScript books The Good Parts and the Definitive Guide.
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.
What Hacker News says?
I think you meant to link this: http://jmesnil.net/weblog/2009/09/28/how-books-shape-my-appr... but you linked to the image in the page instead.
Comment linking /weblog/2009/09/28/how-books-shape-my-appreciation-of-programming-languages/
on “JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career”Submitted On JMS ObjectMessage And Its Pitfalls as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor prospective buyers who are still on the fence there's a handy 1000-word review comparing and contrasting The Good Parts with the Definitive Guide recommended above: http://jmesnil.net/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/RzRcw.j...
Comment linking /weblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/RzRcw.jpg
on “JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career”Submitted Node.js + Redis on OpenShift as a story · 2 points
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