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Kristen Maevyn
Personal blog · pzuraq.com/blogwebprogramming
Kristen Maevyn writes maevyn.codes, a personal blog at pzuraq.com about web and programming. Since 2019, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Comparing Ember Octane and React”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's reactivity writing, which covers how Ember's auto-tracking system works and how Glimmer implemented it. One commenter cites it as the design documentation for that system.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A Maven is one who knows. So, what do I know?
Most-linked posts?
- Comparing Ember Octane and React4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-05-08
- Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-26
- How Autotracking Works: Reactivity in JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-09
- What Makes a Good Reactive System?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-11
- Signal Relays2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-19
What Hacker News says?
Related and possibly helpful: * How Glimmer.js implemented autotracking: https://www.pzuraq.com/blog/how-autotracking-works * Discussion specifically on Lamport Clocks and autotracking: https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/autotracking-elegant-dx-v...
Comment linking /blog/how-autotracking-works
on “Xilem: An Architecture for UI in Rust”Submitted Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks as a story · 284 points
HN discussionI wouldn't say plain, but it's a generic LLM design. Which made me curious whether the blog was around with a different look before AI was commonly used for such things, and it turns out it was, at https://www.pzuraq.com (which now redirects to the current site). One article survived the move, so you can compare: https://web.archive.org/web/20220426154343/https://www.pzura... https://maevyn.codes/four-eras-of-javasc…
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on “The Decoherence Trap”Submitted Comparing Ember Octane and React as a story · 63 points
HN discussionWow. I really didn't realize it was so close! I've just today finished up what took me away from my Ember project. Ember has been freakin' amazing to use, and Octane really, really, makes it shine. I love ember because it includes everything you need to manage state in your application, install and you're ready to go. I don't have to pick my view renderer, state/history management, storage system, networking stack e…
Comment linking /coming-soon-in-ember-octane-part-1-native-classes/
on “Ember.js Octane Edition”Submitted Comparing Ember Octane and React as a story · 11 points
HN discussionA little more context: I've been working on the design of this reactivity system in some form since roughly 2018 as part of the Ember framework. The original design of the reactivity system made its way into Ember Octane as the "auto-tracking" system, and was fairly exhaustively documented (as originally designed) by @pzuraq in his excellent series on reactivity[1]. He also gave a talk summarizing the ideas at Ember…
Comment linking /blog/what-is-reactivity
on “Starbeam – A library for building reactive data systems”Submitted What Makes a Good Reactive System? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks (2022) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Signal Relays as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Signal Relays as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Autotracking Works: Reactivity in JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes a Good Reactive System? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Ember Octane and React as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing React and Ember Octane as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Autotracking Works as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking with Autotracking: What Makes a Good Reactive System? as a story · 1 points
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