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Paul Stovell
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Paul Stovell's personal blog at paulstovell.com covers programming, startups and career. Since 2010, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “JQueryPad - Dedicated Editor for JavaScript & HTML”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Paul Stovell's posts on WPF and reactive programming. HN commenters link them for WPF data binding history and for a reactive-programming discussion of framework design constraints.
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.
A Brisbane-based software developer and founder of Octopus Deploy, a DevOps automation server. This blog is about software development and my journey.
Most-linked posts?
- JQueryPad - Dedicated Editor for JavaScript & HTML2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-26
- Six years of Windows Presentation Foundation: What’s changed? (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-10
- Six years of WPF2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-03
- What Is Reactive Programming?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-26
What Hacker News says?
I believe the constraints chosen could be summarized as 1. the code you write must parse as valid JS 2. you must be able to write traditional JS 3. we want the equivalent of the Destiny Operator https://paulstovell.com/reactive-programming/
Comment linking /reactive-programming/
on “Let's learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one”Submitted Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft as a story · 169 points
HN discussionSee http://stackoverflow.com/a/4120034/168719 - that's the highest rated answer for the question "What is the simplest way to bind a group of 3 radiobuttons to a property of type int for values 1, 2, or 3?" Do I really need to say more :) Or http://blog.wouldbetheologian.com/2009/07/why-wpf-databindin... or http://paulstovell.com/blog/six-years-of-wpf - he also raises an important point: WPF never made any significa…
Comment linking /blog/six-years-of-wpf
on “Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?”Submitted What is reactive programming? as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six years of Windows Presentation Foundation: What’s changed? (2012) as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silverlight is the next decade's IE6 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six years of WPF as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fair and Transparent: A deep dive into compensation at Octopus Deploy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should have written it in java as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six years of WPF; what's changed? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uncertainty and the Nanny Stack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JQueryPad - quick JQuery prototyping tool as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JQueryPad - Dedicated Editor for JavaScript & HTML as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Reactive Programming? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Right Tool for the Job (Silverlight and HTML5) as a story · 1 points
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