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Ken Collins's personal blog at metaskills.net covers programming and web. Since 2009, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Too LESS? Should You Be Using Sass?”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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2009–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2011

The personal blog of Ken Collins aka MetaSkills

Most-linked posts?

  1. Too LESS? Should You Be Using Sass?
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-28
  2. Interactive JavaScript Console With TextMate
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. spellboots · 2014-02-13
    I generally prefer SCSS to LESS as it's essentially a superset of LESS. Relevant link: http://metaskills.net/2012/02/27/too-less-should-you-be-usin...

    Comment linking /2012/02/27/too-less-should-you-be-using-sass/

    on “Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS”
  2. fogus · 2009-09-08

    Submitted The Ultimate OS X Snow Leopard Stack For Rails Development as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  3. spellboots · 2014-01-20
    A related article from the author of the less-rails rubygem: http://metaskills.net/2012/02/27/too-less-should-you-be-usin...

    Comment linking /2012/02/27/too-less-should-you-be-using-sass/

    on “LESS vs Sass? It’s time to switch to Sass”
  4. chrismealy · 2012-02-28

    Submitted Too LESS? Should You Be Using Sass? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. metaskills · 2014-03-06
    Many of my users were friends I met at various Ruby/Rails development circles. HomeMarks is a passion project that I have strived to re-write every few years. I threw away ~7K lines of custom MV* JS (before there were any) written in Prototype.js to create this new version in Rails/SpineJS. I hope others find it useful. History here. HomeMarks, My First Ruby On Rails Pet Project http://metaskills.net/2006/12/21/home…

    Comment linking /2008/05/24/the-ajax-head-design-pattern/

    on “HomeMarks v3 Launches”
  6. rafaelc · 2011-01-17

    Submitted Interactive JavaScript Console With TextMate as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. danso · 2013-09-03

    Submitted Jekyll Tips And Tricks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. chrismealy · 2010-07-09

    Submitted Interactive JavaScript Console With TextMate (w/ Safari's javascript REPL) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. oguz · 2011-09-28

    Submitted Using Twitter's Bootstrap In The Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. chrismealy · 2011-09-07

    Submitted How Do You Encapsulate Your JavaScript as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. duck · 2011-01-25

    Submitted From Test::Unit & Shoulda To MiniTest::Spec & MiniShoulda as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. terrellm · 2011-01-04

    Submitted Automating Heroku PG Backups as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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