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Ross Zurowski

Personal blog · rosszurowski.com/log · on HN as rosszurowskiprogrammingweb

Ross Zurowski's personal blog at rosszurowski.com covers programming and web. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Makefiles for Web Work (2022)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2023–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ross Zurowski's blog for its article on Makefiles, offered as a fuller treatment of the subject than the submitted post.

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.

Designer and developer from Toronto.

The author on HN?

rosszurowski · 138 karma · member since 2017

Designer + Developer https://rosszurowski.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Makefiles for Web Work (2022)
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. Better article on the subject: https://rosszurowski.com/log/2022/makefiles

    Comment linking /log/2022/makefiles

    on “I Like Makefiles”
  2. Submitted Makefiles for Web Work (2022) as a story · 101 points

    HN discussion
  3. Same! The fact that Make is pre-installed everywhere and you can create a consistent interface to tasks across projects is a big win. I wrote a post about that here: https://rosszurowski.com/log/2022/makefiles

    Comment linking /log/2022/makefiles

    on “Just: A Command Runner”
  4. Submitted Makefiles for Web Work as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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