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Thanos Polychronakis

Personal blog · thanpol.as · on HN as thanasispprogrammingweb

Thanos Polychronakis's personal blog at thanpol.as covers programming and web. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Promises/A+ Performance Hits You Should Be Aware Of”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-18, and you can follow it by feed.

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15mentions?
9HN people?
2013–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2013

The author on HN?

thanasisp · 165 karma · member since 2010

Founder, CTO, Engineer https://thanpol.as

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Promises/A+ Performance Hits You Should Be Aware Of
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. What? Why? I disagree on all of those points. Promises are inconsistent[0], slow[1], and I find them a hassle compared to async. The Node.js core and community convention is to use callbacks and callback-embracing tooling for a good reason. [0] http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/09/20/consistency-pr... [1] http://thanpol.as/javascript/promises-a-performance-hits-you...

    Comment linking /javascript/promises-a-performance-hits-you-should-be-aware-of/

    on “Contra – Asynchronous flow control with a functional taste to it”
  2. Submitted How make your web-app become available faster: Let go of the DOM Ready events as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  3. Promises are great for prototyping, but have significant overhead ( http://thanpol.as/javascript/promises-a-performance-hits-you... ) for some high performance APIs it may be advisable to use async. Async also supports nodejs callback patterns which can reduce the need for wrappers (promisify)

    Comment linking /javascript/promises-a-performance-hits-you-should-be-aware-of/

    on “Async.js v2.0.0 released”
  4. Submitted Show HN: The Importance of Logging – Introducing Logality as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Promises/A+ Performance Hits You Should Be Aware Of as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted An open letter to the TasteJS folks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Mantri - a New Solution for JavaScript Dependency Management as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Passing Data From Server To Javascript On Page Load as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted How to Jumpstart Your Web Development Career as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Squashing. Or how to be a liar and ungrateful as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The cost of WebRTC Today as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Promises/A performance hits you should be aware of as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Revisiting what a JS Modular Application is as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Development Using Namespaces as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted [JS] Why I Don't Like AMD And What I Will Do About It as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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