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Kabir Shah

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Kabir Shah's personal blog at blog.kabir.sh covers programming and web. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Inventing Monads”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2019

composer of functions

Most-linked posts?

  1. Inventing Monads
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-08-03
  2. Optimal Virtual DOM
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. I wrote an article with the same name! [1] The problem solving based approach seems to be the most relatable and easy for people to get an idea of what monads are. Nice work. [1] https://blog.kabir.sh/inventing-monads

    Comment linking /inventing-monads

    on “Inventing Monads”
  2. Submitted Inventing Monads as a story · 140 points

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  3. Hey, I wrote a post with the same title [1]! I feel like everyone writes a blog post once monads finally click, and this one is great — I like how you introduced them through solving real-world problems. :) [1] https://blog.kabir.sh/inventing-monads

    Comment linking /inventing-monads

    on “Inventing Monads”
  4. Submitted Monads Explained by a 15-year-old as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Inventing Monads as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted Optimal Virtual DOM as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Optimal Virtual DOM as a story · 1 points

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