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marcusoft.net is a personal blog at marcusoft.net about programming, career and productivity. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts on the package.json engines field in npm, where a version mismatch gives an error, and on the ASP.NET Nancy framework compared with WebAPI and MVC. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
This is still current as far as I know: http://www.marcusoft.net/2015/03/packagejson-and-engines-and... Basically, you get an error but it won't give you the proper version. If that has changed I'd love to know, however (it most certainly should install the latest version for your environment and give you a warning that it's not the latest. In my opinion anyway).
Comment linking /2015/03/packagejson-and-engines-and-enginestrict.html
on “Node.js 5.0 Released”Submitted How to Build a Slack Command with Claudia Bot Builder as a story · 12 points
HN discussionAhh, WebAPI. The thing that MVC should have been, but still falls short. Promoted as an 'API' despite the fact it does the same thing as MVC, only slightly better. Guess what, your website is an API, it just happens to return text/html instead of some other format you specify. If you use MVC and WebAPI, you're doing it wrong. Also... http://weblogs.asp.net/shijuvarghese/archive/2013/07/30/writ... vs http://www.marcu…
Comment linking /2013/01/NancyTesting3.html
on “ASP.NET You're doing it Wrong. An Introduction to Nancy”Submitted Are AI agents our industry's industrial robots? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are you coding for change or for stability? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A simple diagram and some conversations on flow efficiency as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The feelings of trying out 'test commit or revert' with the FizzBuzz problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussion