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substack.net is a personal blog at substack.net about programming and web. Since 2010, 40 different Hacker News readers have linked it 74 times, most often “Task automation with `npm run`”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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74mentions?
40HN people?
2010–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2011

Most-linked posts?

  1. Task automation with `npm run`
    7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-11-17
  2. Weaning yourself off jQuery
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-04-12
  3. DNode: Asynchronous Remote Method Invocation for Node.js and the Browser
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-07-11
  4. Offline decentralized single sign-on in the browser
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-11-28
  5. Semver your services with seaport
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-09
  6. Many Things
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. What a crazy coincidence, I just factored out my company's payment widget code into a reusable module a few days ago: https://github.com/substack/pricing-widget Basic example: http://substack.net/projects/pricing-widget/basic/ Fancy example: http://substack.net/projects/pricing-widget/browserling/

    Comment linking /projects/pricing-widget/browserling/

    on “Stripe Checkout”
  2. Submitted The node.js aesthetic as a story · 136 points

    HN discussion
  3. Us cabal devs really like irc. Cabal was inspired in part by it. You might enjoy this explanatory zine: https://substack.net/zine/cabal.html

    Comment linking /zine/cabal.html

    on “Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform”
  4. Submitted Serial over webaudio as a story · 127 points

    HN discussion
  5. You all might also enjoy analog TV encoding/decoding in your browser: https://substack.net/tv based on these repositories: https://github.com/substack/glsl-ntsc-video - modulate and demodulate an ntsc video signal in a shader https://github.com/substack/ntsc-video-simulator - real-time ntsc television simulator https://github.com/substack/analog-tv-simulation - the demo itself

    Comment linking /tv

    on “Analog TV Station on ESP8266”
  6. Submitted Analog Television Simulation as a story · 95 points

    HN discussion
  7. I highly recommend this road as well. Three exercises along the lines of the parent that I found particularly valuable: 1. Compare VanillaJS TodoMVC to your framework of choice http://todomvc.com/ https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/tree/gh-pages/examples/va... What does the framework buy you? Is the framework-powered code easier to read? Easier to understand for a newcomer to the code base? 2. Read every line of Eff…

    Comment linking /task_automation_with_npm_run

    on “The Hitchhiker's Guide to Modern JavaScript Tooling”
  8. Submitted Javascript AST trickery with burrito as a story · 64 points

    HN discussion
  9. That's an interesting perspective. I don't have any inherent problems with large libraries, but my problem with some of these 'monoliths' is that other libraries start to depend on the entire library when they only need a small piece of functionality that the library provides. Substack wrote an article [1] explaining some of the problems that monolithic libraries cause in an ecosystem. [1] http://substack.net/many_t…

    Comment linking /many_things

    on “Lodash v3.0.0”
  10. Submitted Heatmaps for node.js and the browser as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  11. Joyent, Please do the classy thing and have Isaac create a NodeJS organization on Github and move the project to that organization under his stewardship. With great power came great responsibility and using the Joyent corporate blog to excoriate one of the community's most valuable contributors is the path to the dark side. http://substack.net/images/coronation.png

    Comment linking /images/coronation.png

    on “Ben Noordhuis's Departure”
  12. Submitted Bounce your http requests around with bouncy as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  13. About the topic of replacing jQuery I really enjoyed reading "Weaning yourself off jQuery"[0] by James Halliday. It shows how to replace some of the jQuery features with the DOM API and/or with npm libraries such hyperquest[1]. [0] http://substack.net/weaning_yourself_off_jquery [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/hyperquest

    Comment linking /weaning_yourself_off_jquery

    on “Replacing jQuery with D3”
  14. Submitted Show HN: Heatwave - our node.js knockout project as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  15. have a look at dnode: https://github.com/substack/dnode bidirectional remote method invocation. Oh, and a complimentary robot free of charge: http://substack.net/browse/2010-11-08%2022:16:39 :-)

    Comment linking /browse/2010-11-08%2022:16:39

    on “Node.js is Backwards”
  16. Submitted Browserify: browser-side require() for your node.js as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  17. Browserify had a PR merged on master in March for switching from non-ECMA String.substr to String.slice: https://github.com/browserify/browserify/pull/2036 Apparently it's too trivial for a release but the maintainers still seem to be around. Substack.net listed in package.json seems to be working: https://substack.net/cv.html

    Comment linking /cv.html

    on “Top-500 NPM package maintainers now require 2FA”
  18. Submitted Binary Stream Parsing in Node.js as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  19. Here's the thoughts of substack on this issue. I use npm and bash scripts. http://substack.net/task_automation_with_npm_run

    Comment linking /task_automation_with_npm_run

    on “Habits of a Happy Node Hacker”
  20. Submitted DNode: Asynchronous Remote Method Invocation for Node.js and the Browser as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  21. https://substack.net

    Comment linking /

    on “Substack”
  22. Submitted Task automation with `npm run` as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  23. And another new voxeljs module for portals: https://github.com/substack/voxel-portal http://substack.net/projects/voxel-portal/

    Comment linking /projects/voxel-portal/

    on “A Minecraft-like Block Based Game Engine Using Three.js, WebGL and Node”
  24. Submitted Weaning yourself off jQuery as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  25. Have you seen DNode? http://substack.net/posts/85e1bd/DNode-Asynchronous-Remote-M... Doesn't solve that problem (which is really, really hard) but it's a very interesting step.

    Comment linking /posts/85e1bd/DNode-Asynchronous-Remote-Method-Invocation-for-Node-js-and-the-Browser

    on “Drinking the Node.js Kool-Aid”
  26. Submitted Roll your own PubSub with DNode in node.js as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  27. It'd all be so much easier if people just stuck to what's already there. If you use NPM (which, if you're doing modern JavaScript, you should be using) you already have a task runner. If you can write shell scripts (whether actual shell scripts or just arbitrary scripts with a hashbang) you can write tasks. What's more, you can combine existing tasks and everything that has a CLI is already a task: http://substack.n…

    Comment linking /task_automation_with_npm_run

    on “Brunch: Replace gulp, grunt and increase your dev speed”
  28. Submitted This winter break, I built a python-powered robot telescope. as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  29. Also see: http://substack.net/posts/85e1bd/DNode-Asynchronous-Remote-M... Here's a comparison (tldr: they both have interesting aspects): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5317282/what-is-the-diffe...

    Comment linking /posts/85e1bd/DNode-Asynchronous-Remote-Method-Invocation-for-Node-js-and-the-Browser

    on “NowJS Real-time Trials: Build a 2-week hack, win sweet prizes”
  30. Submitted Colorful javascript object diffs with difflet as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion

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