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Phil Leggetter

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Phil Leggetter's personal blog at leggetter.co.uk covers programming, web and career. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Real-Time Web Technologies Guide”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.

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16mentions?
6HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Phil Leggetter's posts on realtime web technology, including a predictions piece and a guide to real-time web technologies, when discussing browser communication.

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.

Phil Leggetter's website and blog: developer relations, developer experience, product-led growth, and realtime web technologies.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Real-Time Web Technologies Guide
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. This is definitely correct. The article focuses more on data synchronisation where as a lot of services (some of which jkarneges has highlighted) don't offer data storage and focus on letting you define your own feeds/channels/topics/subjects and exposing data updates/changes via messages or events. These services are highly complementary to RethinkDB as it's very easy to see how a channel subscription can map to a…

    Comment linking /real-time-web-technologies-guide/

    on “Advancing the realtime web”
  2. Submitted Real-Time Web Technologies Guide as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  3. When it comes to nginx and apache you can always go down the hosted realtime infrastructure route. That way you can use WebSockets in your client (app) but you don't need to worry about installing mods or handling the persistent connections on your server. See: http://www.leggetter.co.uk/real-time-web-technologies-guide#...

    Comment linking /real-time-web-technologies-guide

    on “WebSockets: Stable and Ready for Developers”
  4. Submitted 10 Realtime Web Technology Predictions for 2014 as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  5. You can see the tool used in the context of the related blog post (also linked to from the bottom of the standalone tool) https://www.leggetter.co.uk/2016/02/03/defining-developer-re...

    Comment linking /2016/02/03/defining-developer-relations.html

    on “DevRelOMeter”
  6. Submitted Is Renaming an MCP Tool a Breaking Change? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. I'm the author. Created this back in 2016. Works in latest Chrome on Pixel 5. The pie chart on the right is a representation of whether the activities selected via checkboxes align with Awareness, Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue, Referral or Product (AAARRRP) goals, as outlined in the referenced Defining Developer Relations blog post https://www.leggetter.co.uk/2016/02/03/defining-developer-re... I belie…

    Comment linking /2016/02/03/defining-developer-relations.html

    on “DevRelOMeter”
  8. Submitted Changing Jobs? The Grass Isn't Always Greener as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Seems like the middle-click issue is a bug known to the owner of the site: http://www.leggetter.co.uk/2014/02/24/10-realtime-web-techno...

    Comment linking /2014/02/24/10-realtime-web-technology-predictions-for-2014.html

    on “10 Realtime Web Technology Predictions for 2014”
  10. Submitted The Aaarrrp Developer Relations Strategy Framework as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. So far, I've found these links: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15529106/webrtc-howto-pee... http://www.leggetter.co.uk/real-time-web-technologies-guide But nothing without going through a central server.

    Comment linking /real-time-web-technologies-guide

    on “Ask HN: Interbrowser Communication without going through Server”
  12. Submitted The Aaarrrp Developer Relations Strategy Framework as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Realtime Hosted Service Latency Stats as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted WebSockets realise Comet. They’re not an alternative. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Namespace utility functions for JavaScript as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Are .NET developers scared of the tech community and cutting edge technologies? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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