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Seva Zaikov
Personal blog · blog.bloomca.me · on HN as bloomcaprogrammingweb
Seva Zaikov's personal blog at blog.bloomca.me covers programming and web. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “A Clever Line of JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter links the post on alternatives to JSX, pointing to libraries that make React code more readable. The linked post covers JSX alternatives.
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.
The blog of Seva Zaikov
Most-linked posts?
- A Clever Line of JavaScript3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-11-08
- Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-12-23
- Git Beyond the Basics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-17
- Alternatives to JSX2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-24
What Hacker News says?
There are a lot of libraries to it more readable: https://blog.bloomca.me/2019/02/23/alternatives-to-jsx.html If you don't want to use any of them, convention is to use: const h = React.createElement; I don't know of anyone who actually uses `React.createElement` directly. Personally, with all the other things needing a transpile step (TypeScript, and support for older browsers), I've just gotten used to having one…
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on “What I wish I knew about React”Submitted Single Page Application Is Not a Silver Bullet as a story · 196 points
HN discussionLocation: Florence, OR, United States Remote: only remote Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Node.js, JavaScript (fullstack), TypeScript, React, Hapi.js, Express.js, koa.js, vanilla JS, streams (like Rx.js), SQL, NoSQL, GraphQL, Docker, a bit of Python (Django) Résumé/CV: https://bloomca.me/resume.pdf Email: seva.zaikov@gmail.com I am a web developer, with main expertise in JavaScript (~5 years), mostly client-si…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2019)”Submitted Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies as a story · 192 points
HN discussionI wrote an article some time ago, with basic outlining, what is a single page application (without any framework) – http://blog.bloomca.me/2016/10/15/writing-web-application-in... The repo is here https://github.com/Bloomca/vanilla-web-app , if you are interested.
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on “Front-End Walkthrough: Building a Single Page Application from Scratch”Submitted Alternatives to JSX as a story · 104 points
HN discussionLocation: Florence, OR, United States Remote: only remote Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Node.js, JS (fullstack), Hapi.js, Express.js, koa.js, React, vanilla JS, SQL, Docker, a bit of Python (Django) Résumé/CV: https://bloomca.me/resume.pdf Email: seva.zaikov@gmail.com I am a web developer, with main expertise in JavaScript (~5 years), mostly client-side, with small services in Node.js using hapi/express/koa.…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2018)”Submitted Javascript Fundamentals: ‘this’ keyword as a story · 73 points
HN discussionLocation: small town in Oregon Remote: yes, and only remote Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Node.js, JS frameworks (React, Angular, etc), SQL, Python Résumé/CV: https://bloomca.me/resume.pdf Email: seva.zaikov@gmail.com Hi, I'm Seva and I'll move to Oregon in November, and want to find a remote (only) work. It is quite a time before it (probably I won't start to work before December), but I would like to start…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2018)”Submitted A Clever Line of JavaScript as a story · 62 points
HN discussionLocation: Florence, Oregon, US Remote: only remote Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Node.js, JS (fullstack), Hapi.js, Express.js, koa.js, React, vanilla JS, SQL, Docker, a bit of Python, a bit of Go Résumé/CV: https://bloomca.me/resume.pdf Email: seva.zaikov@gmail.com I am an experienced JavaScript developer who moved to Florence, OR recently, and would like to find a remote job in some time (~2–3 months). I ap…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2018)”Submitted Best Practices Are Not Always the Best as a story · 50 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Use Generators – batching, cancellation, pause/resume as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Beyond the Basics as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just Ship as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Cancel Your Promise in JavaScript as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Experience with MOOCs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asynchronous Patterns in JavaScript as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Cancel Your Promise in JavaScript as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Future of the Babel.js as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smart and Dumb Components in React as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Optimization in React Applications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agile is Weird as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Most Clever Line of JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Most Clever Line of JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Server side rendering with prefetch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problem with React Update Model as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problem with React Update Model as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Optimize React Context Performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies as a story · 2 points
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