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Richard Rodger

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Richard Rodger's personal blog at richardrodger.com covers programming and web. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Why I Have Given Up on Coding Standards”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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15mentions?
14HN people?
2011–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

The linked posts appear to cover JavaScript's resurgence and tabs versus spaces. The comments cite a different article and discuss indentation, without judging this blog's writing.

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?

  1. Why I Have Given Up on Coding Standards
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-05
  2. The Javascript Disruption
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-07
  3. Monolithic Nodejs (2013)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. brs · 2011-04-09
    I read a similar article which was written five days earlier: http://www.richardrodger.com/2011/04/05/the-javascript-disru... The author points out that Douglas Crockford's writings have played a big part in the language's resurgence - his book "The Good Parts" was what turned me, and I suspect a lot of others, back on to Javascript.

    Comment linking /2011/04/05/the-javascript-disruption/

    on “The JavaScript Age”
  2. medeu · 2013-12-16

    Submitted Monolithic Node.js as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  3. userbinator · 2018-08-26
    I played around with various indentation styles and also eventually came to a preference of one space --- all the space savings(!) of tabs, with none of their odd behaviour. As an additional bonus, the column counter of the text editor doubles as a display of the indentation level. That said, when working with shared code I believe what's more important is "micro-consistency" : the exact style doesn't really matter,…

    Comment linking /2012/11/03/why-i-have-given-up-on-coding-standards/

    on “Tabs vs. spaces and other holy wars”
  4. hodgesmr · 2012-11-21

    Submitted Why I Have Given Up on Coding Standards as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  5. redDragon · 2012-11-22

    Submitted Why I Have Given Up on Coding Standards as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  6. catilac · 2011-04-07

    Submitted The Javascript Disruption as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  7. fuzzythinker · 2014-11-28

    Submitted Monolithic Nodejs (2013) as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. sassyalex · 2013-12-23

    Submitted Monolithic Node.js as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. cnp · 2013-12-17

    Submitted Monolithic Node.js as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. rjrodger · 2012-11-03

    Submitted Why I Have Given Up on Coding Standards as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. rjrodger · 2016-01-27

    Submitted Seneca, a Microservices framework for Node.js as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. pauljonas · 2013-12-16

    Submitted Monolithic Node.js as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. mikegirouard · 2012-12-05

    Submitted Why I Have Given Up on Coding Standards as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. funkylexoo · 2017-01-19

    Submitted Why I Have Given Up on Coding Standards as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. songzme · 2013-12-20

    Submitted Monolithic NodeJS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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