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Skillcrush is the company blog at skillcrush.com, writing about career and programming. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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18mentions?
13HN people?
2012–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Skillcrush for a 2012 post on tracking pixels, which one commenter cites as a reason to track email opens without JavaScript, and a list of 64 free online coding resources.

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.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. If you are like me thinking why on earth would you do this instead of using Google Analytics there are 2 reasons: 1. Javascript disabled 2. Tracking emails opened http://skillcrush.com/2012/07/19/tracking-pixel/

    Comment linking /2012/07/19/tracking-pixel/

    on “Realtime pixel tracking with nginx, syslog-ng, and Redis”
  2. Submitted Skillcrush, a community-driven, fun way to learn new tech skills as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. JSeymourATL · 2016-11-08Recommends
    > With no money and lack of training ... There are remarkable number of Free Online resources, assuming you can dedicate the time to check these out, start here... > https://skillcrush.com/2016/03/15/64-online-resources-to-lea... > I don't know how I'll succeed as a developer... Here's some good food for thought from Greg McKeown on achievement > https://youtu.be/5TGMujw629Y

    Comment linking /2016/03/15/64-online-resources-to-learn-to-code-for-free/

    on “Ask HN: I need advice, Mid-life crisis”
  4. Submitted The 5 Commandments of REST as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. I know you said you have Java experience, but it sounds like it's not a lot and so sticking with Java doesn't seem like a necessity to me in this context. I don't know Java so I'm not going to give you any suggestions that include it, but hopefully others here will. Websites. Learn WordPress and basic Web Dev stuff: JS, Sass (instead of CSS), and HTML. In my world it seems everyone needs a website, and I could make…

    Comment linking /2014/03/11/how-to-charge-rates-web-design-freelance/

    on “Ask HN: What to learn to earn a little on the side”
  6. Submitted Anatomy of an App: Instinct as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Hi Amy! We know that there are some amazing moms out there coding and killing it! And, we love them! We made two versions of the Mother's Day site: http://skillcrush.com/mothers-day/ The whole idea is that we want to celebrate moms & encourage more of them to get in the digital game ;)

    Comment linking /mothers-day/

    on “Your Mother, the Hacker: It's time to mom down and bake some code.”
  8. Submitted Can Women in Tech have it all? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. find a fun challenge you personally enjoy solving, and start with some high level languages to get some experience of what "coding means", and slowly give yourself time to learn, through trial and error, copy other people's work from places like github and "check out" copies to work with, see if you can get things to build, or "compile" and run, and be patient, take your time, keep it interesting and fun, and find g…

    Comment linking /blog/64-online-resources-to-learn-to-code-for-free/

    on “Career Change”
  10. Submitted How to support social justice work as a developer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Dear Paul Graham, here’s how to fix the women in tech problem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Lessons my mathematician father taught me as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted node.js - javascript not just for frontend as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted The Remote Work Mega Guide: Working from Home in the Age of Covid-19 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted 25 sites for finding remote work as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Explained: CRUD as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted What does a 404 error mean? 400? 300? 200? 418? Learn 'em all as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Last minute Mother's Day gift? Give the gift of digital knowledge as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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