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Jon Mellman

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Jon Mellman's personal blog at jonmellman.com covers programming and web. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “On Opportunistic Refactoring”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as a Minesweeper implementation in Angular 2, shared as an exploratory exercise, and as a freelance senior full-stack engineer's profile in a hiring thread. No comment judges the writing.

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.

Posts by Seattle-based software developer, musician, and occasional blogger.

Most-linked posts?

  1. On Opportunistic Refactoring
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Location: Seattle Remote: Yes and on-site in Seattle Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Node.js, React, TypeScript, MongoDB, Docker, AWS Résumé/CV: https://www.jonmellman.com/media/resume.pdf Email: jonmellman at gmail Senior/staff full stack engineer currently looking for contract or part-time work. I will build your prototype, level up your engineering team, design your integration, modernize your stack, etc. I…

    Comment linking /media/resume.pdf

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2022)”
  2. Submitted Advanced Promise Patterns: Promise Memoization as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Uh oh. Since folks are posting their own implementations, here’s mine, written as an exploratory exercise for Angular2: https://github.com/jonmellman/angular2-minesweeper https://jonmellman.com/minesweeper/ Grimace

    Comment linking /minesweeper/

    on “How to Build Minesweeper with JavaScript”
  4. Submitted On Opportunistic Refactoring as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted On Opportunistic Refactoring as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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