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Robert Cooper

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Robert Cooper's personal blog at robertcooper.me covers web and programming. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “CSS Grid Is Not a Replacement for Flexbox”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9mentions?
7HN people?
2019–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Robert Cooper's post discusses the business side of open-source web frameworks, using Shopify's acquisition of Remix as the example. It was linked in an HN thread on that acquisition.

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.

Full stack web developer that shares his ideas on hot web development topics like React, TypeScript, Docker, and more.

Most-linked posts?

  1. CSS Grid Is Not a Replacement for Flexbox
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. lewisflude · 2022-11-01Recommends
    The remix team own the name, and npm package distribution rights. The money is used to fund development. I think you've got some good points here around the weirdness that happens when someone builds a business around something that is fundamentally open. In theory, someone could hard fork remix, rename it and do their own thing. The moat they've built is around the specific team working on remix, the remix communit…

    Comment linking /post/reflecting-on-remix-open-source-investor-funding

    on “Remix web framework aquired by Shopify”
  2. tosh · 2024-09-08

    Submitted How to make a table row a link (2020) as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  3. robertcooper · 2020-10-18

    Submitted Docker guide: A comprehensive guide to Docker as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. pimterry · 2019-07-15

    Submitted CSS Grid Is Not a Replacement for Flexbox as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. behnamoh · 2022-05-13

    Submitted Elegant Development Experience with Zsh and Hyper Terminal as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. 8bithero · 2019-04-04

    Submitted Get Started with TypeScript in 2019 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. robertcooper · 2019-08-05

    Submitted Stop Using GIFs on Websites (Use Video Instead) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. robertcooper · 2019-07-17

    Submitted How Yarn Lock Files Work and Upgrading Dependencies as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. skilled · 2019-07-16

    Submitted CSS Grid Is Not a Replacement for Flexbox as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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