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Tal Bereznitskey

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Tal Bereznitskey's personal blog at berzniz.com covers career and productivity. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 85 times, most often “Javascript Hacks for Hipsters”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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85mentions?
6HN people?
2012–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 36 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Tal Bereznitskey's blog posts, including the JavaScript Hacks for Hipsters article, its blog version, and a Black Friday promo-code page. One commenter prefers the blog version's readability to the slideshow.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Javascript Hacks for Hipsters
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-11-24
  2. Not having fun? You probably need a new job (2011)
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-11-22
  3. NSBackbone - Porting Backbone.js concepts to native iOS Apps
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-22
  4. Black Friday – Free promo codes for apps
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://berzniz.com/post/14669116083/dont-be-a-liar-and-4-oth...

    Comment linking /post/14669116083/dont-be-a-liar-and-4-other-tips-for-ios-graphic

    on “Pix2code: Generating Code from a GUI Screenshot”
  2. Submitted iOS 7 only is the only sane thing to do as a story · 117 points

    HN discussion
  3. We've developed (and keep developing) a rather big application in Backbone.js - it holds up and works perfectly. We are setting a move from it since it lacks in some areas (no POJOs, no nested, manual binding, lots of extra backbone-mini-libs required), but it does hold well at any scale. I wouldn't direct new comers to backbone.js anymore, new trends with 10x more contributors wins over anything. I wrote about it b…

    Comment linking /post/66372634868/backbonejs-is-the-c-of-javascript-mvc

    on “Developing Backbone.js Applications – a Creative Commons book”
  4. Submitted JavaScript debugging tips as a story · 58 points

    HN discussion
  5. Non-slideshow link: http://berzniz.com/post/68001735765/javascript-hacks-for-hip... This may impugn my credibility as a professional developer, but I genuinely can't tell if this article is sarcastic or sincere.

    Comment linking /post/68001735765/javascript-hacks-for-hipsters

    on “JavaScript Hacks for Hipsters”
  6. Submitted Why should AngularJS have all the fun? as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  7. johannh · 2014-10-09Recommends
    This was originally published a year ago in this blog post: http://berzniz.com/post/68001735765/javascript-hacks-for-hip... Makes for a nicer read than slideshare imo.

    Comment linking /post/68001735765/javascript-hacks-for-hipsters

    on “JavaScript Hacks for Hipsters”
  8. Submitted Features are Debt, not Assets as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  9. It was vandalised, new page here: http://berzniz.com/blackfriday2014

    Comment linking /blackfriday2014

    on “Black Friday – Free promo codes for apps”
  10. Submitted How to be an awesome developer as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Secret: AngularJS scares me as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted No Apple Music, but still want to ask Siri for songs? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted My job is to say no as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Isomorphic JavaScript: Angular.js is not the answer as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted NSBackbone - Porting Backbone.js concepts to native iOS Apps as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Managing Engineers in less than 200 characters as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted 10 Lessons learned from being a VP R&D as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Black Friday – Free promo codes for apps as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Don’t Stop at “Full Stack Developer” – The “Full Stack Employee” as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted How to make Backbone.js x10 better as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Man plans and Apple/Google/Facebook/Twitter laughs as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted I suck at marketing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted NSBackbone - Porting Backbone.js concepts to native iOS Apps as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Quality is too important to be left to QA engineers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Quality is too important to be left to QA engineers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Not having fun? You probably need a new job (2011) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted To follow, or not to follow the hype, that is the question as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Less LESS is More (also: is transpile a real word?) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted The worst UX mistake everyone makes and doesn't know about as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted A bunch of idiots are paying me to learn new skills as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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