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Kieran Potts
Personal blog · kieranpotts.comprogramminghistory
Kieran Potts's personal blog at kieranpotts.com covers programming and history. Since 2017, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Should We Rebrand JavaScript?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
About Kieran Potts — a staff-level software developer based in the south-west of the UK, with two decades of experience building software for enterprise.
Most-linked posts?
- Should We Rebrand JavaScript?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-10-14
- Should we rebrand REST?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-24
- PHP Is 303 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-08
- The (software) quality without a name2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-07
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Should we rebrand REST? as a story · 123 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP Is 30 as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP Is 30 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should We Rebrand REST? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should We Rebrand JavaScript? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The (software) quality without a name as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should We Rebrand JavaScript? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The (software) quality without a name as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP Is 30 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should We Rebrand REST? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should We Rebrand JavaScript? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new blog about the history and future of software engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP Dialects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Domain-Driven Design: a short introduction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A mental model for software attributes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should We Rebrand JavaScript? as a story · 1 points
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