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Kevin Peters's personal blog at kevinpeters.net covers programming and web. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The #1 tip to familiarize with new JavaScript Codebases”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3HN people?
2020–2023first – 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 this post from the '26 programming languages in 25 days' series, which reflects on language design. The linked passage on whitespace-significant syntax and autoformatting drew a disagreement.

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.

Find engaging stories about the web development world. A blog and site by Kevin Peters featuring topics like JavaScript, SQL, Software Engineering, Python, Vue.js, React and many more.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The #1 tip to familiarize with new JavaScript Codebases
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://www.kevinpeters.net/articles/ You should read it if you are interested in programming and product things in general - so frontend, backend, and design the stuff. That's what I write most about. But I also want to publish more in-depth tutorials like the DigitalOcean guides or career-tips.

    Comment linking /articles/

    on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”
  2. Submitted The #1 tip to familiarize with new JavaScript Codebases as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Amazon pays a lot more here in Berlin. People in Germany forget to add stocks to the total compensation. Source: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engi... Otherwise, in Berlin there are other bigger tech companies and with remote opening up more and more the salaries tend to increase. Currently the biggest companies in Berlin when it comes to compensation: Microsoft, GitHub, Airbnb, SAP, Wayfai…

    Comment linking /top-tech-companies-berlin-2021

    on “AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea”
  4. Submitted Fastest way to understand new codebases as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. > But I'm not letting it do that, I'm letting the computer autoformat it, which it can't do if the whitespace is the code. Of course it can do it. Indentation changes are parsed as delimiters, so it can treat them in the same way as if you put those delimiters yourself by hand. > And yet, I don't have to worry about that error because the editor is able to simply autoformat it so I can see where the error is even wh…

    Comment linking /auto-formatters-for-python

    on “26 programming languages in 25 days, Part 2: Reflections on language design”
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