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LornaJane
Personal blog · lornajane.net/postsprogrammingweb
LornaJane's personal blog at lornajane.net covers programming and web. Since 2011, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Best Things About Developer Advocacy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter describes the blog as over a thousand posts on APIs, open source, backend scripting languages, developer experience and occasional recipes. Other comments cite a post on exporting GitHub issue data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software engineer and author based in the UK, writing about APIs, open standards, and open source.
Most-linked posts?
- Best Things About Developer Advocacy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-27
- Short tech writing style guide for developers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-24
What Hacker News says?
You can get your code out, but what about all of the rest of your data? Wiki, issues, pull requests, etc. Update: Apparently it's doable with some API magic, but you still have to handroll your exporter: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2011/github-api-issues-list
Comment linking /posts/2011/github-api-issues-list
on “GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down.”Submitted Keyboard-Only Web Browser as a story · 31 points
HN discussionhttps://lornajane.net Over a thousand posts (I've been doing this a while apparently) on APIs, open source, backend scripting languages, developer experience/relations, other random tech, and the occasional recipe.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Navigating Bash History with Ctrl+R (2011) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWordpress, Joomla and Drupal are not good examples of "good" PHP code. They work, and are used extensively, but experienced developers who care about code quality blow a gasket when they look at the source code. To do proper PHP development you should have a local VM. I created something to help in that regard[0]. It's been fairly well received. There's also websites like PHP The Right Way [1] that act like a collec…
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on “What are the best languages for aspiring programmers in 2014?”Submitted Generators come to PHP as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's new in OpenAPI Specification 3.1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP 5.4 is Not twice as fast as 5.3 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted From WordPress to Static Site Generator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just Enough Docs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Save Edits to OpenAPI as an Overlay as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Short tech writing style guide for developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Short tech writing style guide for developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Manager’s Second Calendar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Raising the Next Generation of DevRel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Things About Developer Advocacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bystanders Guide to Repository Maintenance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Reviews: Before You Even Run the Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git renames are not renames as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nested Tags in OpenAPI 3.2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Right-Size Your RESTful API: More Flexibility Without GraphQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted API Linting Levels as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to structure and share code examples as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted API Linting Levels as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Standards for APIs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for Better Documentation with OpenAPI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who are you writing that commit message for? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Happened to Your Blog? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hold Attention on the Virtual Stage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Things About Developer Advocacy as a story · 1 points
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