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TheCodeBarbarian.com
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TheCodeBarbarian.com is a personal blog at thecodebarbarian.com about programming and web. Since 2015, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Getting Started with WebAssembly in Node.js”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for practical Node.js and WebAssembly how-tos, such as using wasm from Node with --expose-wasm, plus posts on Node 12 async stack traces and ES6 proxy performance.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Getting Started with WebAssembly in Node.js5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-03-10
- I Don't Want to Hire You If You Can't Reverse a Binary Tree3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-22
- Static Properties in JavaScript Classes with Inheritance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-11
What Hacker News says?
This is a little old, but you can use wasm from node http://thecodebarbarian.com/getting-started-with-webassembly...
Comment linking /getting-started-with-webassembly-in-node.js.html
on “WebAssembly 101: A developer’s first steps”Submitted I Don't Want to Hire You If You Can't Reverse a Binary Tree as a story · 47 points
HN discussionNo. In fact, AFAIK it's already implemented on Node, behind the --expose-wasm flag: http://thecodebarbarian.com/getting-started-with-webassembly...
Comment linking /getting-started-with-webassembly-in-node.js.html
on “Concurrent JavaScript: It can work”Submitted Common Async/Await Design Patterns in Node.js as a story · 22 points
HN discussionYes. In fact, it already does, you just need to pass `--expose-wasm` to Node: http://thecodebarbarian.com/getting-started-with-webassembly...
Comment linking /getting-started-with-webassembly-in-node.js.html
on “Understanding WebAssembly text format”Submitted Creating REST APIs and Clients with LoopBack and AngularJS as a story · 8 points
HN discussionIn Node 12: https://thecodebarbarian.com/async-stack-traces-in-node-js-1...
Comment linking /async-stack-traces-in-node-js-12
on “Debugging C++ Coroutines [pdf]”Submitted A Practical Introduction to GeoJSON with Node.js as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhile ES6 proxies are really nice, I came across this experiment (1) and their tests showed that ES6 proxies can be very bad at performance. I could reproduce the test case. Not sure whether this GraphQL client has some way to optimize. 1. https://thecodebarbarian.com/thoughts-on-es6-proxies-perform...
Comment linking /thoughts-on-es6-proxies-performance
on “A GraphQL client library without queries: Building a movie app with gqless”Submitted Getting Started with WebAssembly in Node.js as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Overview of JSX with 3 Non-React Examples as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Don't Want to Hire You If You Can't Reverse a Binary Tree (2016) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Don't Want to Hire You If You Can't Reverse a Binary Tree (2016) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting started with web assembly in node as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is the `ToJSON()` Function in JavaScript? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Work Remotely as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Serverless App with MongoDB Stitch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Node-Static Debacle: A Semver Parable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Standalone Express API Binaries with Pkg as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with WebAssembly in Node.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Node.js Perspective on MongoDB 3.4: Decimal Type as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Mongoose Studio: A Schema-Aware MongoDB GUI with AI Dashboards for Node as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Private Preview for Stargate-Mongoose Astra Support as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is the `ToJSON()` Function in JavaScript? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Vue as a Node.js Static Site Generator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rubber Duck Debugging for JavaScript Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What JavaScript Developers Should Know About Curl as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Code Editor with CodeMirror as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1000 Days of Code: Lessons from a 4 Year GitHub Streak as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My 3 Favorite JavaScript Interview Questions as a story · 1 points
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