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Jim Newbery

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Jim Newbery writes Tinned Fruit, a personal blog at tinnedfruit.com about web and programming. Since 2011, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Testing Backbone applications with Jasmine and Sinon”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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17mentions?
13HN people?
2011–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Front-end web consultant Jim Newbery's blog covers single-page app pitfalls, testing Backbone apps, and building sites from small HTML pages. Commenters cite its posts as sources.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Personal website of Jim Newbery.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Testing Backbone applications with Jasmine and Sinon
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-03-03
  2. Create your own dysfunctional single-page app
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-30
  3. 31 Ways to Spend Less Time on Manual Cross–Browser Testing
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. Nope, he is a "Front-end web consultant and coach": https://tinnedfruit.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Create your own dysfunctional single-page app”
  2. Submitted Create your own dysfunctional single-page app as a story · 208 points

    HN discussion
  3. What were the arguments in favour of SPAs in the first place? I'm finding it interesting that most of the top HN submissions (by popularity) matching "single page app" are critical, not positive. First 15 follow, all but 5 are negative: - You probably don't need a single-page app ( https://journal.plausible.io/you-probably-dont-need-a-single... ) 816 points | 6 years ago | 499 comments - A single-page app is almost…

    Comment linking /articles/create-your-own-dysfunctional-single-page-app.html

    on “Building websites with lots of little HTML pages”
  4. Submitted Testing Backbone applications with Jasmine and Sinon as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. This article summarized some of the pitfalls: https://tinnedfruit.com/articles/create-your-own-dysfunction...

    Comment linking /articles/create-your-own-dysfunctional-single-page-app.html

    on “React v16.6.0: lazy, memo and contextType”
  6. Submitted Are you Detroit- or London-school? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. You can look at jasmine + sinon http://tinnedfruit.com/2011/03/03/testing-backbone-apps-with...

    Comment linking /2011/03/03/testing-backbone-apps-with-jasmine-sinon.html

    on “Introducing Google JS Test”
  8. Submitted Shoot Down Front-End Fatigue with Tracer Bullets as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted 31 Ways to Spend Less Time on Manual Cross–Browser Testing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How ethnography can help you understand code as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Why and How to Test Your Pattern Library as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Technical Debt Often Isn't as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted How to Test a Pattern Lab Project as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted 31 Ways to Spend Less Time on Manual Cross–Browser Testing as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Automated Responsive Design Testing as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Testing Backbone applications with Jasmine and Sinon – Part 1 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Testing Backbone applications with Jasmine and Sinon as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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