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Shing Lyu
Personal blog · shinglyu.comprogrammingwebai
Shing Lyu's personal blog at shinglyu.com covers programming, web and ai. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Shing Lyu's how-to posts on running React without build tooling, counting contributions from Git history, and porting Chrome extensions to other browsers. The links are given as pointers, not praise.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Shing Lyu's blog
Most-linked posts?
- /web/2018/02/08/minimal-react-js-without-a-build-step-updated.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-17
What Hacker News says?
Apparently this is possible: https://shinglyu.com/web/2018/02/08/minimal-react-js-without...
Comment linking /web/2018/02/08/minimal-react-js-without-a-build-step-updated.html
on “Vue.js 3”Submitted Vibe Operations – The Next Indispensable Trend as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere are various ways to extract this from Git, see for example: https://shinglyu.com/web/2018/12/25/counting-your-contributi...
Comment linking /web/2018/12/25/counting-your-contribution-to-a-git-repository.html
on “-2000 Lines of Code”> Vue can be used without build tooling if you choose to use the Vue lib with the compiler included but we use the pre-compiled way for max performance and smaller Vue runtime (without compiler). +1. And likewise, you can use React without a build step too, though of course it is slower. [1] [1] https://shinglyu.com/web/2018/02/08/minimal-react-js-without...
Comment linking /web/2018/02/08/minimal-react-js-without-a-build-step-updated.html
on “Ways to make a web component”It's pretty easy to do yourself: - https://github.com/nt1m/convert-crx-to-xpi - https://www.ghacks.net/2016/05/23/install-google-chrome-exte... - https://shinglyu.com/web/2017/08/07/porting-chrome-extension... - https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/porting-...
Comment linking /web/2017/08/07/porting-chrome-extension-to-firefox.html
on “Hypothes.is: An Open Annotations Platform”