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Joe Zim
Personal blog · joezimjs.comprogrammingweb
Joe Zim's personal blog at joezimjs.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 107 times, most often “Lazy Loading JavaScript with RequireJS”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joe Zim's JavaScript posts, including one on URL parsing and one on the tilde (~) operator, usually as examples of JavaScript tricks. One commenter says the URL parsing approach is already built into the browser DOM.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Lazy Loading JavaScript with RequireJS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-13
- /javascript/the-lazy-mans-url-parsing/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-07
- /javascript/great-mystery-of-the-tilde/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-14
What Hacker News says?
HN Link: http://www.joezimjs.com/javascript/the-lazy-mans-url-parsing... Takes you here: This webpage has a redirect loop The webpage at http://www.joezimjs.com/500.shtml/ has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer. Here are some suggestions: Reloa…
Comment linking /javascript/the-lazy-mans-url-parsing/
on “The Lazy Man's URL Parsing”Submitted The Lazy Man's URL Parsing as a story · 114 points
HN discussionJust FYI, most, if not all, of this is built into javascript already, via the DOM. http://www.joezimjs.com/javascript/the-lazy-mans-url-parsing...
Comment linking /javascript/the-lazy-mans-url-parsing/
on “$.url() - A simple, lightweight url parser for jQuery”Submitted Give Your Apps a Backbone(.js) as a story · 61 points
HN discussionoh hey, look at this. Someone on HN found some latent native URI parsing ability in the browser DOM http://www.joezimjs.com/javascript/the-lazy-mans-url-parsing...
Comment linking /javascript/the-lazy-mans-url-parsing/?utm_source=linkedin.com&
on “JS.Next Needs You”Submitted Don’t name your input elements ‘action’ or ‘submit’ as a story · 56 points
HN discussionI'm not sure if this can help you prepare for an interview quickly but most advanced JavaScript things I've learned is by taking a deep dive into existing frameworks like AngularJS, jQuery, etc source code. You see a lot of things happening which may not make sense like "The Great Mystery of the Tilde(~)"[1], etc which are not only fun to figure out but you also see them being used practically too. [1] https://www.j…
Comment linking /javascript/great-mystery-of-the-tilde/
on “Ask HN: “Expert Level” JavaScript questions?”Submitted Introduction to Backbone.js Part 4: Collections – Video Tutorial as a story · 43 points
HN discussionA little less awkward: ~array.indexOf(a) https://www.joezimjs.com/javascript/great-mystery-of-the-til...
Comment linking /javascript/great-mystery-of-the-tilde/
on “ES7 brings two new features”Submitted 3 Simple Things to Make Your jQuery Code Awesome as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to Backbone.js Part 1: Models - Video Tutorial as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Node.js and Express 3 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted JZ Publish/Subscribe jQuery Plugin Version 1.3 Released as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rendering Subviews in Backbone.js as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backbone.js Application Walkthrough Part 2: Views and Templates – Video Tutorial as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Asynchronous Architectures: Events vs. Promises as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Unit Testing with Jasmine: Part 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plugging Into Socket.IO: Advanced as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plugging Into Socket.IO: The Basics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Fundamentals: Functions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minecraft + Node.js + Socket.io = Awesome as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted No More Global Npm Packages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Patterns for Asynchronous Programming with Promises as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lazy Loading JavaScript with RequireJS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing RaptorJS: An End-to-End JavaScript Toolkit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are WebSockets Really Slow on Chrome? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are WebSockets Slow on Chrome? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for Front End Unit Testing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Event-Based Architecture: Getting Decoupled as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dependency Injection with JavaScript as a story · 2 points
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