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Ju Liu's personal blog at juliu.is covers programming and productivity. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Tidying up your $HOME with Nix”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
8HN people?
2019–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ju Liu's writing on Elm, including 'Why I'm Leaving Elm' and a post on how NoRedInk uses Elm alongside Rails, with one app per REST controller.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A blog.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Tidying up your $HOME with Nix
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. > If I wanted to build a single page application, I would absolutely, 100%, write it in Elm. I find this interesting, because SPAs in Elm are more like exercise for the reader. If you look how NoRedInk uses Elm you will see that’s more like one “app” per REST controller [1]. Do you have some experience with specific solutions that you could share? [1] https://juliu.is/elm-at-noredink/#rails-conventions

    Comment linking /elm-at-noredink/

    on “Why I'm Leaving Elm”
  2. Submitted Ditch your version manager as a story · 167 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Elm at NoRedInk as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Permutate Parsers, Don't Validate as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Tidying up your $HOME with Nix as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Tidying up your $HOME with Nix as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Ditch Your Version Manager as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Z-Index by Examples as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Writing a program that writes itself as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Tidying up your $HOME with Nix as a story · 1 points

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