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Olio Apps

Company blog · olioapps.com/blogprogrammingweb

Olio Apps is the company blog at olioapps.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Automatic Code Formatting for Partially-Staged Files”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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21mentions?
6HN people?
2018–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2018

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

Why HN links it

The linked post covers using Makefiles for Go projects. One commenter cites a similar article on make as the reason they switched from Grunt, Gulp and npm scripts for web projects.

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.

Olio Apps is a full-stack software consulting firm. We can help your company complete software projects faster, so your team is free to focus on your core business.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Automatic Code Formatting for Partially-Staged Files
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-16
  2. Io-to: both static and dynamic type checking for JSON API data in TypeScript
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. I went through a phase of using Grunt, Gulp, npm scripts, etc. for web projects. Recently, after reading this article on make[1], I decided to give it a try and I've been pleasantly surprised with how much easier using make has been vs. some of the FUD I've read about it. That's not to say there aren't some issues, but that's true of something that's been around since the '70s, including Unix itself. But that also m…

    Comment linking /blog/the-lost-art-of-the-makefile/

    on “Using Makefile(s) for Go”
  2. Submitted The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects as a story · 544 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Io-to: both static and dynamic type checking for JSON API data in TypeScript as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Prototyping Native Mobile Apps in 5 Minutes as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Type-Driven Development with TypeScript as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Implementing REST Hooks as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Automatic Code Formatting for Partially-Staged Files as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Why we're excited about Immersive Reality as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Development on Hard Mode: How to Deal with Crunch as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Legacies Never Die: How to Handle Legacy Code as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Magic Leap – First Impressions as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Checking Types Against the Real World in TypeScript as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Prototyping vs. Production Development: Avoid Creating a Monster as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted A-Frame and Redux: a connector component as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Love Thy Selenium Tests: Functional Tests That Fail Only When Supposed To as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Providing a Rewarding Software Internship as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Daily Stand-Up: Productivity Asset or Monstrous Waste of Time? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Gracefully Handling Newness: Tips for Software Developers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Reduce Redux Boilerplate with Sitka as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted A-Frame TypeScript Toolkit: Creating WebVR with TypeScript as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Automatic code formatting for partially-staged files in git as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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