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Rebecca Murphey
Personal blog · rmurphey.com/blogwebprogramming
Rebecca Murphey's personal blog at rmurphey.com covers web and programming. Since 2011, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “A Baseline for Front-End [JS] Developers: 2015”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rebecca Murphey's blog for JavaScript and front-end guidance, especially her 'A Baseline for Front-End Developers' posts on the skills and tools a developer should know.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
rmurphey.com
Most-linked posts?
- A Baseline for Front-End [JS] Developers: 20155 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-03-24
- A Baseline for Front-End Developers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-12
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-20
What Hacker News says?
This is fun. Here's mine: - Brad fitzpatrick -- http://bradfitz.com/ - Julia Evans -- https://jvns.ca - Raymond Hettinger -- https://rhettinger.wordpress.com/ - Rich Hickey -- https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits - Peter Bourgon -- https://peter.bourgon.org/ - Rebecca Murphey -- https://rmurphey.com/ - Daniel Greenfield -- https://www.twoscoopspress.com/
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on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Submitted A Baseline for Front-End Developers as a story · 311 points
HN discussionI'd consider adding some articles from http://rmurphey.com/ ( that's where I started reading about large javascript apps), http://peter.michaux.ca/ (very interesting), and even some of the demo apps from http://rightjs.org/ , like https://github.com/MadRabbit/typing-ninja , are pretty good for learning javascript. IMHO.
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on “Superhero.js: articles and videos on building large JavaScript apps”Submitted Girls and Computers as a story · 230 points
HN discussionAlso see http://rmurphey.com/blog/2011/07/25/switching-to-octopress Have to say, i also think Jekyll is a really nice compromise. Not something you could recommend to a client though...
Comment linking /blog/2011/07/25/switching-to-octopress
on “Why and How I Migrated from Posterous to Self-Hosted WordPress”Submitted Building for HTTP/2 as a story · 71 points
HN discussion"jQuery is primarily a JavaScript library for doing DOM manipulation, Ajax, events, and effects. Dojo is a more comprehensive toolkit that offers those same features, but also includes many other pieces that facilitate building rich web applications, such as patterns for code organization, tools for abstracting data syncing between server and browser, internationalization, accessibility, templated widgets, graphing…
Comment linking /blog/2009/11/12/dojo-confessions-or-how-i-gave-up-my-jquery-security-blanket-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale/
on “Dojo JavaScript Toolkit 1.8 Released”Submitted Mulberry: A Development Framework for Mobile Apps as a story · 67 points
HN discussionI think Rebecca Murphey's latest "Baseline" post [1] covers this pretty well. Not sure I'd include Node, but ES2015, modules, testing and build tools/automation for sure. You should know your way around the browser dev tools, have a good handle on async and promises and understand the DOM and events. [1]: http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/03/23/a-baseline-for-front-end...
Comment linking /blog/2015/03/23/a-baseline-for-front-end-developers-2015/
on “Ask HN: JavaScript developer – what do I need to know?”Submitted Two Things About Conditionals in JavaScript as a story · 13 points
HN discussionaustinee, sir or madam; I propose the following format for the remainder of this thread: We post awesome women engineers and developers for people to follow and be aware of. Let the rest of the internet wallow in its poisonous vat of sensationalist vitriol. Here, in our little corner of the internet, we will move the chain forward a few inches by enumerating incredible women in tech, the rest of the web be damned. M…
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on “Donglegate: Why the Tech Community Hates Feminists”Submitted JavaScript: It's a Language, Not a Religion as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis is a good start: http://rmurphey.com/blog/2012/04/12/a-baseline-for-front-end... All the links you'll ever need: https://github.com/christopherscott/frontend-toolbox and https://github.com/dypsilon/frontend-dev-bookmarks
Comment linking /blog/2012/04/12/a-baseline-for-front-end-developers/
on “Ask HN: What do you recommend for a web development novice?”Submitted A Baseline for Front-End [JS] Developers: 2015 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttp://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/03/23/a-baseline-for-front-end... covers it better than I could.
Comment linking /blog/2015/03/23/a-baseline-for-front-end-developers-2015/
on “Skills your front end engineer should have?”Submitted A 2015 Update to “A Baseline for Front End Developers”? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Baseline for Front-End [JS] Developers: 2015 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Baseline for Front-End [JS] Developers: 2015 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On "Community Conferences" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing effectively in software engineering organizations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Unit Tests for Existing JavaScript as a story · 1 points
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