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Marcus West

Personal blog · marcuswest.in · on HN as marcuswestinprogrammingweb

Marcus West's personal blog at marcuswest.in covers programming and web. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Fun (a programming language for the realtime web)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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8mentions?
4HN people?
2010–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2010

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

Why HN links it

The linked post covers reactive programming and declarative UIs in CoffeeScript, via the Reactive.coffee project. The only comment discusses that project's related work and RxJS, not the post's 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.

The author on HN?

marcuswestin · 433 karma · member since 2010

http://marcuswest.in [ my public key: https://keybase.io/marcuswestin; my proof: https://keybase.io/marcuswestin/sigs/WYXCFq2ZdmUKksmgntn6sK9Gmb90IVwNjVvHo-N_eEA ]

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. Fun (a programming language for the realtime web)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-07
  2. The Four Elements of Web Performance: Weight, Time, Processing & Perception
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. xyzzyrz · 2013-08-07
    We elaborate briefly on various related work at http://yang.github.io/reactive-coffee/related.html , but absolutely - there's a large body of existing work and trailblazers we liberally draw inspiration from. In the case of RxJS in particular, the styles actually feel quite different - RxJS is more about explicitly merging streams and constructing the data flow graph with some set of combinators, whereas dependencie…

    Comment linking /essays/fun-intro/

    on “Reactive.coffee: reactive programming and declarative UIs in CoffeeScript”
  2. marcuswestin · 2010-08-09

    Submitted Fun - a new programming language for the realtime web as a story · 122 points

    HN discussion
  3. marcuswestin · 2010-10-31

    Submitted The World's Most Underpaid Profession (creating an economy for great teachers) as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  4. marcuswestin · 2011-02-08

    Submitted The Four Elements of Web Performance: Weight, Time, Processing & Perception as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. X4 · 2013-12-26

    Submitted Fun (a programming language for the realtime web) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. marcuswestin · 2012-11-12

    Submitted The Rise of Artistic Computing as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. marcuswestin · 2012-03-28

    Submitted TodoMVC app written in Fun, a new programming language for the realtime web as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. evangineer · 2011-05-12

    Submitted Four Elements of Web Performance as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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