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Majd Taby

Personal blog · jtaby.com · on HN as jtabywebprogramming

Majd Taby's personal blog at jtaby.com covers web and programming. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Modern Web Development”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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8HN people?
2011–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Majd Taby's posts on modern web development and Chrome tooling, including Chrome Canary and DevTools. A Chrome DevTools engineer calls the roundup incredible and thorough.

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.

The author on HN?

jtaby · 727 karma · member since 2009

www.jtaby.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Modern Web Development
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-04-23
  2. Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. paulirish · 2012-04-23Recommends
    Disclaimer: I'm on the Chrome team and specifically focus on the Inspector/DevTools Majd and I have talked a lot about tooling and the Chrome DevTools in particular. He ends up tweeting me a few requests or bugs a day that I'm routing to the engineering team. I love it. Majd's writeup here is incredible. I hope to find a way to augment our existing documentation with this very thorough roundup. He's done a similar t…

    Comment linking /2011/05/31/google-chrome-why-i-hate-it-and-continue-to-use-it.html

    on “Modern Web Development”
  2. Submitted Modern Web Development as a story · 605 points

    HN discussion
  3. sgoraya · 2012-11-02Recommends
    I thought this was a great primer on Chrome Canary: http://jtaby.com/2012/04/23/modern-web-development-part-1.ht...

    Comment linking /2012/04/23/modern-web-development-part-1.html

    on “Chrome Canary for Developers”
  4. Submitted A Moment of Clarity in the Pursuit of Happiness as a story · 171 points

    HN discussion
  5. recycleme · 2012-06-22Recommends
    Learn to use the dev tools in Chrome. Here's a great start: http://jtaby.com/2012/04/23/modern-web-development-part-1.ht...

    Comment linking /2012/04/23/modern-web-development-part-1.html

    on “Ask HN: Web Dev Testing Best Practices”
  6. Submitted Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It as a story · 101 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The Fallacy of Modern Web Development as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Foresight as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Why I joined Strobe as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Design for the Mobile Web’s Ubiquity as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How Much Skill Can I Gain in 20 Hours? as a story · 13 points

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  12. Submitted Building the Next Generation of Mobile Web Apps as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted What I Learned From Releasing My First Open Source Project as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted When The Chasm Comes Back and Hits You In The Face as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The Fallacy of Modern Web Development as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Google Chrome - Epilogue and User Feedback as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted A Tale of Ten Hobbies as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Confidence of the Mobile Web as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted From the Junk Drawer: The Broken Pixel Theory as a story · 1 points

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