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oida.dev is a personal blog at fettblog.eu about programming and web. Since 2015, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “How Not to Learn TypeScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Articles on web dev and software engineering: TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust, and more!
Most-linked posts?
- How Not to Learn TypeScript3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-10
- JSX is syntactic sugar3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-11-28
- Dissecting Deno2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-09
- The Road to Universal JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-10
- TypeScript Without TypeScript – JSDoc Superpowers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-19
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-30
What Hacker News says?
After using TypeScript for the past couple of years, I've come to see it as simply another "embrace and extend" maneuver by Microsoft carve off a chunk of JavaScript mindshare, preying upon the naïveté of less-experienced developers who've fallen for the "static typing is safer" myth. TypeScript's decision to disallow JSDoc within .ts files [1] for example doesn't contribute anything positive to my impression of thi…
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on “TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex”Submitted Rust: Enums to Wrap Multiple Errors as a story · 96 points
HN discussionJSX is syntactic sugar for JS[0]. C++ and ASM (actually, _which_ ASM?) are different languages. [0] https://fettblog.eu/jsx-syntactic-sugar/
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on “Angular v8.0”Submitted How Not to Learn TypeScript as a story · 7 points
HN discussionReminds me this old meme : https://fettblog.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/node-modules-mem...
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on “Nanos – A Unikernel”Submitted Collection of dev talks in 2016 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionJSX is just syntactic sugar for React.createElement [0]. This means that I can write any valid JS I want in there. For example, if I use a functional programming library with a match statement, I can have that in my JSX, I don't need to adhere to what the templating authors came up with. [0] https://fettblog.eu/jsx-syntactic-sugar/
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on “Million: less than 1kb virtual DOM that is fast”Submitted How Not to Learn TypeScript as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHello hackers, Shuttle ( https://github.com/shuttle-hq/shuttle ) & Stefan Baumgartner ( https://fettblog.eu/ ) are hosting a free workshop titled "Rust for Javascript Developers". Rust Linz organizer Stefan Baumgartner will take you from project initialization to deployment by rewriting an Express.js based chat application that uses web-sockets into Rust, using the Axum framework & shuttle. By doing so, he will high…
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on “Rust for JavaScript Developers”Submitted Dissecting Deno as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHey hackers, Shuttle ( https://github.com/shuttle-hq/shuttle ) & Stefan Baumgartner ( https://fettblog.eu/ ) are hosting a free workshop titled "Rust for Javascript Developers". So far, more than 800 hundred curious peeps have signed up, and we encourage you to do the same! :) Rust Linz organizer Stefan Baumgartner will take you from project initialization to deployment by rewriting an Express.js based chat applicat…
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on “a thread”Submitted TypeScript: The Humble Function Overload as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inconvenient Truths about TypeScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The TypeScript Cookbook as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Not to Learn TypeScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gulp 4: The new task execution system as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Road to Universal JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cutting the Mustard (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSX is syntactic sugar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top front-end talks to watch from 2015 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book on Front-End Tooling: Gulp, Bower, Yeoman as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The `never` type and error handling in TypeScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Road to Universal JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dissecting Deno as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TypeScript + React: Why I Don't Use React.FC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TypeScript: Low Maintenance Types as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can use void in JavaScript and TypeScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TypeScript Without TypeScript – JSDoc Superpowers as a story · 1 points
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