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Joel Auterson

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Joel Auterson's personal blog at joelotter.com covers programming, games and writing. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Show HN: Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.

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Why HN links it

HN readers link Joel Auterson's Kajero project and posts on interactive JavaScript notebooks and blogging, including data visualisation with D3. Commenters call the idea really cool and suggest ways to extend it.

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.

Hello! My name's Joel and I'm a software developer. No, not that one.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Show HN: Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Or, if you prefer your interactive notebooks not to rely on a backend service: http://www.joelotter.com/kajero/

    Comment linking /kajero/

    on “Azure Jupyter Notebooks”
  2. Submitted Fuck it, make it anyway as a story · 606 points

    HN discussion
  3. Perhaps Browserify would be something that would work in this use case. Awesome job! In addition, it might be cool to have in-line substitution of data. For example, in your analytics notebook[0], I noticed you referenced the number in text afterwards, but if Kajero was pulling from a live data source, it'd be neat to do something like this: Predictably, most came from the US ({{data.analytics[0]}}). There were also…

    Comment linking /kajero/?id=3dfe6ba41741626a95b3a7170508d169

    on “Show HN: Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks”
  4. Submitted Show HN: Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks as a story · 217 points

    HN discussion
  5. petercooper · 2016-06-21Recommends
    This is really cool. Another similar system I saw recently is http://www.joelotter.com/kajero/ which aims more towards the data visualization side of things by including native support for D3.

    Comment linking /kajero/

    on “An interactive way of blogging about JavaScript”
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