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Mu-An Chiou

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Mu-An Chiou's personal blog at muan.co covers programming and culture. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “JavaScript dos and donts Mu-An Chiou”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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15mentions?
12HN people?
2013–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Mu-An Chiou's posts on the GitHub website's slowness and its move from Rails to React, and on curating small-website bookmark lists for discoverability.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. JavaScript dos and donts Mu-An Chiou
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. Lol I respect that https://muan.co/no-yc/

    Comment linking /no-yc/

    on “The GitHub website is slow on Safari”
  2. Submitted JavaScript dos and donts Mu-An Chiou as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  3. > The problem is they abandoned rails for react. Which, it seems, was a result of the M$ acquisition: https://muan.co/posts/javascript

    Comment linking /posts/javascript

    on “The GitHub website is slow on Safari”
  4. Submitted Show HN: Pivotal Tweaker as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. mbforbes · 2023-11-15Recommends
    I like this author's idea of curating bookmark lists, but I think they are most effective when two criteria are followed: (1) keep the list small, (2) write small notes about each entry. For example, the bookmarks list the author links to ( https://www.marginalia.nu/links/bookmarks/ ) has 48 URLs annotated only by category. That's too many for my tiny brain to handle and I move on. A webring like Hundred Rabbits' (…

    Comment linking /

    on “The Small Website Discoverability Crisis”
  6. Submitted HN Theme: Search is important as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted On Looking for a Job as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted All of my Facebook friends are Nicolas Cage as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted A Hacker News theme: search, vote, and highlighting as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Github hiring story as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted JavaScript Dos and Donts as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Why Not Today? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Border-box All the Things as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Giving Up as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Git wedding-speech as a story · 1 points

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