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Robert Nealan

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Robert Nealan's personal blog at robertnealan.com covers design, web and career. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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12mentions?
4HN people?
2013–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

Robert Nealan is a designer who ships code: over 15 years of designing, building, and shipping products for teams large and small.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Wrote on this topic a bit at the beginning of the year.[1] I think for most people it really just comes down to a mix of Medium's beautiful design, a strong existing community there, and laziness. You'd be surprised how many times I've been told by friend's to cross-post my stuff to Medium for exposure, but so far I've done my best to hold off. [1]: https://robertnealan.com/is-self-hosted-blogging-dead/

    Comment linking /is-self-hosted-blogging-dead/

    on “How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools”
  2. Submitted Stop Freelancing as a story · 339 points

    HN discussion
  3. SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - San Francisco or Remote UI/UX Designer & Frontend Developer with a penchant for designing and building clean, responsive layouts using a mix of HTML/SCSS + Compass, and JS. Also have varying experience working with Rails, backbone/marionette, nodeJS + Express, and devops for AWS/Linux server environments. Founder of Designers Who Code - http://dwc.io Personal blog - http://robertnealan…

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    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2015)”
  4. Submitted Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead? as a story · 193 points

    HN discussion
  5. SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - San Francisco or Remote UI/UX Designer & Frontend Developer with a penchant for designing and building clean, responsive layouts using a mix of HTML/SCSS + Compass, and JS. Also have varying experience finding my way around Rails, nodeJS + Express, and setting up AWS/Linux server environments. Founder of Designers Who Code - http://dwc.io Personal blog - http://robertnealan.com Company…

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    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2015)”
  6. Submitted M.V.P., not M.V.P.O.S. as a story · 75 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Craft Your First Impression as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Working Remotely as a Digital Nomad While Traveling as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Stop Freelancing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Be Honest as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Wordpress is Great, Wordpress is Terrible as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Web Designers Code as a story · 1 points

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