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Jimmy Breck-McKye
Personal blog · breck-mckye.com/blogprogrammingweb
Jimmy Breck-McKye's personal blog at breck-mckye.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “The State of JavaScript in 2015”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jimmy Breck-McKye's posts on JavaScript framework churn and the state of JavaScript, plus a piece on parasitic inheritance as an alternative to classes. Commenters cite them for Angular, Node and JavaScript choices.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Developing Opinions - A blog by Jimmy Breck-McKye
Most-linked posts?
- The State of JavaScript in 20155 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-12-01
- Modern JavaScript features you might have missed4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-10-29
- Microfront ends should be your last resort2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-29
- Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-30
What Hacker News says?
I don't think that's what people meant. This is probably what they meant: "Developers will move, I believe, from monolithic frameworks like Angular.js and Ember to a ‘pick n mix’ of small, dedicated libraries to mitigate the risk of churn" Source: http://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2014/12/the-state-of-javascr...
Comment linking /blog/2014/12/the-state-of-javascript-in-2015/
on “I won't be using Angular for my next project”Submitted The State of JavaScript in 2015 as a story · 675 points
HN discussionHow about Parasitic Inheritance? http://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2014/05/why-i-prefer-parasit... You can get rid of "this" and all it's problems, and the code is even cleaner.
Comment linking /blog/2014/05/why-i-prefer-parasitic-inheritance/
on “Refactoring Legacy JavaScript Code to Use Classes”Submitted Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable? as a story · 382 points
HN discussionI see people complaining about JS fragmentation. While it is a problem, it is just a consequence of how hard it is to create a complex webapp this days. The thing is this. Things in tech are always changing, and in this web dev of ours, things change faster than anything else. It's crazy. And it is hard. SUPER HARD. And we got to deal with it. So, deal with it. Things like Exilir, closurescript or any other non-java…
Comment linking /blog/2014/12/the-state-of-javascript-in-2015/
on “Ask HN: Is ruby/rails still a good bet? What else should I learn?”Submitted Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018) as a story · 132 points
HN discussion> It is way to early to say there isn't a way to port to 2.0. 2.0 doesn't even exist. That is not what I sad. What I sad is that with the info we have now it seems there won't ever be a way to port the code to 2.x. The code of 2.x we saw is completely different from 1.x. > Again, the code will not stop working magically just because your code is 5/6 years old. You are right, but "the problem is future proofing. What…
Comment linking /blog/2014/12/the-state-of-javascript-in-2015/
on “Ask HN: How should we write our next JavaScript front end?”Submitted Writing a Non-Blocking JavaScript Quicksort as a story · 66 points
HN discussionI would not use it for a new project now, if you know you will maintain that code for more than a few years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8961857 http://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2014/12/the-state-of-javascr...
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on “Ask HN: What's the problem with AngularJS?”Submitted Monads Explained Quickly as a story · 64 points
HN discussionI'm glad to hear someone else calling out Bregman. His work is very flimsy, and I have been a hater for close to 10 years [1]. I think Bregman skirts close to the "Effective Altruism" movement and his work has similar problems of choosing flashy, exciting, elitist projects over boring, uncomfortable, policy changes. His enamourment with "AI!!!" (exclamations mandatory) is par for the course. Basically a fantasy that…
Comment linking /review-utopia-for-realists-rutger-bregman/
on “I Think Rutger Bregman and the School for Moral Ambition Are Full of Shit”Submitted Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable? A Perspective as a story · 20 points
HN discussionIt's not just RoR vs Node.js, it's the eco-system around it you need to think about. This is an interesting read as far as Node goes: http://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2014/12/the-state-of-javascr...
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on “Should I Use Ruby on Rails or Node.js for My Next Project/Startup?”Submitted Microfront ends should be your last resort as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of JavaScript in 2018 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern JavaScript features you might have missed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern JavaScript features you may have missed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern JavaScript features you might have missed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dead Simple Text as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern JavaScript features you may have missed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A case for self-teaching software engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microfrontends should be your last resort as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern JavaScript features you might have missed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parcel.js aims to make web development simple again as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Human Vision for UX Design as a story · 1 points
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