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Lawrence Pan
Personal blog · lpan.ioprogrammingweb
Lawrence Pan's personal blog at lpan.io covers programming and web. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Lessons learned from implementing a text editor related to front-end development”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers lessons learned from implementing a text editor for front-end development. The one comment defends the author's age and background and does not judge the writing itself.
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.
Lawrence Pan's profile and blog
Most-linked posts?
- Lessons learned from implementing a text editor related to front-end development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-27
What Hacker News says?
>I'd expect anyone working as a developer in IT to have learned this much before calling themselves a professional. According to author's webpage[1], he's a "student at the University of Waterloo, class of 2021" . So probably age 17 or 18. He's not passing himself off as a "professional". If majority of HN readers feel this article was beneath their skill level and a waste of time, that's more on the submitter (mxst…
Comment linking /
on “Lessons learned from implementing a text editor related to front-end development”Submitted My one-liner Linux Dropbox client as a story · 510 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons learned from implementing a text editor related to front-end development as a story · 273 points
HN discussionSubmitted How gRPC improves fault tolerance in distributed systems as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learnt from coding a text editor in C as a React developer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My one-liner Linux Dropbox client as a story · 1 points
HN discussion