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Kerrick Long

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Kerrick Long's personal blog at kerricklong.com covers programming and web. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Why does Ember.js rock?”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link these posts on why Angular.js and Ember.js are good frameworks, per the thread titles. One comment cites the Ember post as a similar article, and another reports a mixed-content block on it.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why does Ember.js rock?
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. My site has as weird of an information architecture as my life. And I’ve given up keeping a unified design, instead allowing each portion to express itself however is most appropriate. https://kerricklong.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”
  2. Submitted The death of the PCIe expansion card as a story · 225 points

    HN discussion
  3. I use the bookmark feature built into my web browser, which also syncs with my smartphone. For bookmarks I want to share publicly, I just drop them onto a hand-coded HTML page on my website: https://kerricklong.com/bookmarks/

    Comment linking /bookmarks/

    on “Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?”
  4. Submitted Why does Ember.js rock? as a story · 162 points

    HN discussion
  5. Similar article about why emberjs rocks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6153917 https://kerricklong.com/articles/why-ember-js-rocks.html

    Comment linking /articles/why-ember-js-rocks.html

    on “Why does Angular.js rock?”
  6. Submitted Refactoring for Non-Programmers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Quick fix here until I find a fiddle equivalent that allows SSL embeds: https://kerricklong.com/articles/why-ember-js-rocks.noembed.... Sorry about that.

    Comment linking /articles/why-ember-js-rocks.noembed.html

    on “Why does Ember.js rock?”
  8. Submitted JavaScript Promises: Thinking Sync in an Async World as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. :( [blocked] The page at https://kerricklong.com/articles/why-ember-js-rocks.html ran insecure content from http://jsfiddle.net/Kerrick/Vd6eF/embedded/result,html . Unfortunately kerricklong.com won't serve http, nor jsfiddle.net https, so I don't see an easy fix.

    Comment linking /articles/why-ember-js-rocks.html

    on “Why does Ember.js rock?”
  10. I’ve seen this design again and again, but not in relational databases. I usually see it in spreadsheets. I would be completely unsurprised to see a three column Excel sheet with Employee, Skill, and Language headers. ( https://kerricklong.com/tmp/demo-4nf-need.jpg ) The spreadsheet designer’s intuition is that Skill and Language are lists, and Employee is a section header. Smith might have a few rows with his langu…

    Comment linking /tmp/demo-4nf-need.jpg

    on “Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing”

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