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Raj Shekhar
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Raj Shekhar writes lunatechian (lunatech-ian), a personal blog at rajshekhar.net about programming and web. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Raj Shekhar's blog posts on AJAX and XMLHttpRequest. HN links them as background on browser standards and on the older 30-second AJAX tutorial by Rasmus.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/archives/85-Rasmus-30-second-AJAX-Tutorial.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-28
What Hacker News says?
Considering XMLHttpRequest is what other browsers used before IE caught up, I assume it does work the way you'd expect across modern browsers. I'd have to check the standard and IE8+'s conformance to the standard to be sure. That's what this post is really about for me, reminding that modern browsers follow a standard that allows for getting rid of most of jQuery. Reading it also made me recall a post from 2005 by P…
Comment linking /blog/archives/85-Rasmus-30-second-AJAX-Tutorial.html
on “You might not need jQuery”Submitted Caching is not a silver bullet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://rajshekhar.net/blog/archives/85-Rasmus-30-second-AJAX...
Comment linking /blog/archives/85-Rasmus-30-second-AJAX-Tutorial.html
on “Ask HN: Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX?”Submitted How your startup can scale up with MySQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lifehack idea: not getting influenced by personality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An analysis of the X- headers in spam as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
