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John Reilly
Personal blog · blog.johnnyreilly.comprogrammingweb
John Reilly writes I CAN MAKE THIS WORK, a personal blog at blog.johnnyreilly.com about programming and web. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters mention this blog as an example of a personal site built with Docusaurus's blog feature. In an SEO thread they also examine its redirects and indexing after the move to johnnyreilly.com.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-05-14
What Hacker News says?
when I started work on ts-loader I went with "caretaker" https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/2016/11/01/but-you-cant-die-i-...
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on “Sorry everybody, I failed with you”Submitted My Subconscious Is a Better Developer Than I Am as a story · 206 points
HN discussionts-loader maintainer here. webpack never did typechecking. It's possible to run ts-loader in two modes; with type checking active and with it disabled. For years I've been advising running type checking as a separate process to improve the development workflow: https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/2017/09/07/typescript-webpack-... Exciting news about turbopack - the world is about to get much faster!
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on “Turbopack, the successor to Webpack”Submitted Webpack: configuring a loader with query / options as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYup - though you need to make use of lib if you want to write es2016 TypeScript and have Babel transpile it. Not too hard to get set up though: http://blog.johnnyreilly.com/2016/09/typescript-20-es2016-an...
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on “Announcing TypeScript 2.0”Submitted Reverse Engineering the Azure Application Insights Transactions URL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEDIT: Paste this hacky snippet into your browser's console to save all of the links into your clipboard: (() => { let result = [...document.querySelectorAll('td a')] .map((link) => link && !link.href.includes('ycombinator') && !link.href.includes('javascript:void') ? link.href : '' ) .filter(Boolean); result = [...new Set(result)]; result.sort(); copy(result.join('\n\n')); })(); Just to help, here's a compiled-list…
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on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted Azure Container Apps: Build and Deploy with Bicep and GitHub Actions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShameless plug: https://blog.johnnyreilly.com I generally write about tech I'm using; a lot of TypeScript, a lot of Bicep, a lot of Azure at the moment. Essentially anything that intrigues me may get blogged
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on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted Create a Pipeline with the Azure DevOps API as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI love "how this came to be" type documentaries. I'm not a Vue user myself but I'll all in on watching this! I should declare an interest; I wrote the history of the Definitely Typed project last year: https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/2019/10/definitely-typed-movie... It's exactly this sort of vibe I had in mind as I was writing it. I'm really looking forward to watching the full documentary!
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on “Vue.js: The Documentary (Trailer) [video]”Submitted Windows Defender Step Away from Npm as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYup: https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/2017/03/im-looking-for-work.ht...
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on “Software Developers after 40, 50 and 60 Who're Still Coding”Submitted Azure Container Apps: dapr, devcontainer, debug and deploy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks a lot Johnny Just sharing your blog url for the interested: https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/ We also have a lot of other personal website/blogs in our site showcase: https://docusaurus.io/showcase?tags=personal
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on “Docusaurus 2.0”Submitted Webpack? esbuild? Why not both? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionnot new, we have many sites that are just using the blog, or just using the docs. Example of just using the blog: https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/ https://blog.developersam.com/
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on “Docusaurus 2 Beta”Submitted Output connection strings and keys from Azure Bicep as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI can only speak for my own experience. I blog because I enjoy it and because it helps me stop repeatedly solving the same problems. It's essentially my long term memory published to a website. If it was only that and no-one read it, that would be fine. It has been going for more than 10 years now and I have no plans to stop. TBH I only really started looking at traffic in the last year and I'm gratified it gets a b…
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on “Reasons you aren't updating your personal site (2020)”Submitted C# 9 in-process Azure Functions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDeclare your interest Sebastien ;-) I migrated my own blog to Docusaurus from Blogger about a year and a half ago. I became very enamoured (and still am) with the idea of writing blog posts as markdown, storing them as code and publishing them as a website. I was delighted at how much Docusaurus aligned with that. So much so that I wrote a guide to help others migrate: https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/definitive-guide-…
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on “The Need to Read”Submitted Readme.md support for Visual Studio Marketplace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's your redirects causing duplicate content and/or indexing issues. Google's index of your old site (excluding tags): https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablog.johnnyreilly.com... Shows your blog posts were indexed with no trailing slash: https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/page/155 Your current 301 sends this to: https://johnnyreilly.com/page/155 Which doesn't have a canonical tag, or 301 redirect, to the correct blo…
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on “How I Ruined My SEO”Submitted How to send Teams notifications using Markdown and a webhook as a story · 2 points
HN discussionok, as I was curious this was your old site blog.johnnyreilly.com https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablog.johnnyreilly.com... https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://blog.joh... archive.org picks it up until december 2022 this is your current site https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ajohnnyreilly.com&pws=... archive.org seems to pic it up late december 2022, start 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/2…
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on “How I Ruined My SEO”Submitted Azure AD should 403 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Definitely Typed: The Movie as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Start Me Up: ts-loader meet .tsbuildinfo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ts-loader 4.0.0 shipped (support for webpack 4) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted @types, TypeScript and repeatable builds; a tale of semantic versioning lost as a story · 2 points
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