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Peter Tasker
Personal blog · petetasker.com · on HN as ptaskerprogrammingweb
Peter Tasker writes 🔥 Database Critical 🔥, a personal blog at petetasker.com about programming and web. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on changing programming languages or paradigms. The one comment discusses jQuery becoming irrelevant as browser differences shrink. It gives no view on the writing itself.
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.
Peter Tasker is a software developer located in Ottawa Ontario, Canada.
What Hacker News says?
> something that will be gone in a couple of years I suspect jQuery and it's ecosystem will themselves become irrelevant and eventually (effectively) abandoned. The (at the time compelling) rationale of abstracting away different browser behaviour has become less and less necessary, and what I would see as the other advantage of using jQuery - like easier access to behaviours like animation, $ajax - less relevant. $…
Comment linking /using-async-await-jquerys-ajax/
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