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Charles Chen
Personal blog · chrlschn.medium.comprogrammingcareer
Charles Chen's personal blog at chrlschn.medium.com covers programming and career. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “React Is the New IBM”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- React Is the New IBM2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-04
- 6 .NET Myths Dispelled2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-28
What Hacker News says?
I am the author, my blog is an Astro template and you can see the GH repo here for this post: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/chrlschn/commits/main/src/... And of course, the full commit history of all of my writing: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/chrlschn Even a simple look would have led you to the repository with full commit history of my fixes for grammar, spelling, etc. I've also kept a blog long before GP…
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on “Beware the Complexity Merchants”Submitted The Case for C# and .NET as a story · 314 points
HN discussionI've been feeling the same sentiment as the author. Having worked on 3 sizable React projects now (all started before I arrived), I can only conclude that beyond a toy phase -- once you have many hands working on React and *particularly* once you start managing sizable state -- there is only pain. The most recent case resulted in spending quite a bit of time explaining to a peer why we were experiencing an unexpecte…
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on “React is a fractal of bad design”Submitted Mastodon Is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media – In a Good Way as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted React Is the New IBM as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on React vs. Vue vs. Everything Else in 2023 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 6 .NET Myths Dispelled as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Mindset Shapes Engineering Success at Startups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide – Part 2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted .NET Myths Dispelled – Celebrating 21 Years of .NET as a story · 1 points
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