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korban.net
Personal blog · korban.net/postsprogrammingweb
korban.net is a personal blog at korban.net about programming and web. Since 2013, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “The case against ORMs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Elm posts: an elm-ui introduction, generating static HTML from Elm, a list of Elm learning resources, and a self-publishing experience with a C++ book.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The case against ORMs6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-11-02
- Impressions of React and TypeScript from an Elixir/Elm Developer3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-11-18
- Elm-Ui: Forget CSS and Enjoy Creating UIs in Pure Elm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-20
What Hacker News says?
I personally think it depends on how we define components. ELM does not have components like Vue or ReactJs. ELM's components are just functions. For the example described in the below article, I think channelPanel and chatPanel can be looked as components. https://korban.net/posts/elm/2018-11-17-elm-ui-introduction/
Comment linking /posts/elm/2018-11-17-elm-ui-introduction/
on “Elm 0.19.1”Submitted Impressions of React and TypeScript from an Elixir/Elm Developer as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI've been doing some work on an Elm-based static site generator: https://korban.net/elm/elmstatic/ (It uses elm-static-html under the hood.)
Comment linking /elm/elmstatic/
on “Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19”Submitted $10,000 in sales of my C++ book: easier than I thought as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI wrote up a list of Elm resources (including books) recently: https://korban.net/posts/elm/2018-07-31-learning-elm-2018-co... There are quite a few books/courses/articles which examine various aspects of building an SPA.
Comment linking /posts/elm/2018-07-31-learning-elm-2018-comprehensive-list-resources/
on “Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19”Submitted Impressions of React and TypeScript from an Elixir/Elm Developer as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFor a long time web components generally built on four standards: - Custom HTML elements - Shadow DOM - HTML imports - HTML templates https://korban.net/posts/elm/2018-09-17-introduction-custom-... Eventually it became clear some browsers were not going to implement and the design of HTML imports was better handled be ES modules. https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/127482/on-wha...
Comment linking /posts/elm/2018-09-17-introduction-custom-elements-shadow-dom/
on “Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes”Submitted Impressions of React and TypeScript from an Elixir/Elm Developer as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI've self-published 2 editions of C++11 Rocks (for Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012): http://cpprocks.com I wrote a post about some of the things I learned from it: http://korban.net/2013/04/10000-in-sales-of-my-c-book-easier... Two things I can say (also discussed in the post above): I wouldn't go with a traditional publisher now (with the exception of Pragmatic Programmers), and marketing isn't as hard as…
Comment linking /2013/04/10000-in-sales-of-my-c-book-easier-than-i-thought/
on “Ask HN: Has anyone here self-published a book? Any advice?”Submitted The case against ORMs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCheck out elm-ui. https://korban.net/posts/elm/2019-11-17-elm-ui-introduction/
Comment linking /posts/elm/2019-11-17-elm-ui-introduction/
on “Goodbye, Native Apps”Submitted A Comprehensive List of Resources for Learning Elm as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOne way to get static HTML/CSS from Elm is to execute the JS it produces and serialise the results from the DOM. That's what I do in my static site generator Elmstatic: https://korban.net/elm/elmstatic
Comment linking /elm/elmstatic
on “Asset minification with Elm (2018)”Submitted Impressions of React and TypeScript from an Elixir/Elm Developer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView after 18 months of commercial use as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting up Mac-like zsh keyboard shortcuts on a Mac as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elm-Ui: Forget CSS and Enjoy Creating UIs in Pure Elm as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against ORMs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case against ORMs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case against ORMs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case against ORMS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case agains ORMS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four levels of time handling in a database as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elm ecosystem stats: 2019 update – Korban.net as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons learned from 4 years of using Cordova in production as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case against ORMs as a story · 1 points
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