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Richard Dallaway
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Richard Dallaway writes Richard’s Blog, a personal blog at richard.dallaway.com about programming and web. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post explaining why the author is moving away from the Play Framework for Scala web development. One commenter discusses the post's point that mixing HTML and JavaScript into Scala classes feels wrong.
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.
Observations on what's around me and projects I'm working on.
What Hacker News says?
> Having html and javascript inside my scala classes gives me a queasy feeling. Yeah that's an interesting tradeoff. I like it because it helps keep code completely out of the html templates, which is a design goal of lift. I tend to work with designers who do HTML/CSS only, not javascript, and I do the backend Scala and frontend Javascript, so that separation of roles works. But if your dev team (as most big ones d…
Comment linking /lift-cookbook-an-introduction
on “Why I'm Moving Away from the Play Framework”Submitted Closed Gardens: Don't repeat my mistakes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Machine Learning to a Web App as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting started with Lift (video and slides from a talk) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion