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Lara Swanson

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Lara Swanson's personal blog at laraswanson.com covers design, career and writing. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2013–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Lara Swanson's design presentation, which one commenter describes as taking the "performance matters" position. The thread gives no further comment on the writing.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. This presentation from Etsy's Lara Swanson is pretty strongly in the "performance matters" camp: http://laraswanson.com/design/

    Comment linking /design/

    on “Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Will Too”
  2. Submitted There's Nothing Pink About Interviews at Etsy as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted On unsolicited criticism as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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