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Verekia

Personal blog · verekia.comwebgames

Verekia is a personal blog at verekia.com about web and games. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Being a Zeromalist”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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21mentions?
7HN people?
2011–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this developer's site, which has a step-by-step tutorial on building a modern JavaScript stack from scratch and a personal website used as an example for software engineers.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Personal site of verekia, developer of Mana Blade, WebGamer, and Web Game Dev.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Being a Zeromalist
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. dvdhnt · 2016-10-30Recommends
    Well, for what it's worth, he has a Masters in Computer Science, his open source Initializr project is pretty popular apparently, this tutorial has 3700+ stars on Github, he wrote a book on HTML5, and was a front-end engineer at Yelp. You can see his Github here https://github.com/verekia And his resume here http://verekia.com/resume/ Edit: I find the article to be fairly well written, and I do have a background in…

    Comment linking /resume/

    on “Step-by-step tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack from scratch”
  2. Submitted HTML5: With Great Templates Comes Great Responsivity as a story · 141 points

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  3. Location: Bangkok, Remote only, Flexible schedule Technologies: JS/TS/Node, React, Next, Gatsby, GraphQL, WebSockets Résumé/CV: https://verekia.com/resume/ Email: hello |at| verekia.com GitHub: https://github.com/verekia Twitter: https://twitter.com/verekia French full-stack developer Ex-Yelp front-end engineer 10 years of experience, including 7 years remote Developer relations: Wrote a book about HTML5, tech talks…

    Comment linking /resume/

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)”
  4. Submitted In Case I Die as a story · 7 points

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  5. SEEKING WORK Location: Bangkok, Remote only, Flexible schedule Technologies: JS/TS/Node, React, Next, Gatsby, GraphQL, WebSockets Résumé/CV: https://verekia.com/resume/ Email: hello |at| verekia.com GitHub: https://github.com/verekia Twitter: https://twitter.com/verekia French full-stack developer Ex-Yelp front-end engineer 10 years of experience, including 7 years remote Developer relations: Wrote a book about HTML…

    Comment linking /resume/

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2021)”
  6. Submitted How spammers can create multiple fake accounts with one Gmail address as a story · 6 points

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  7. gt2 · 2017-09-13Recommends
    2 great examples I know of: http://strml.net/ http://verekia.com/ I think the basics will do for most people. I don't think you should spend much time on it and go with the style of the second. A simple list of skills, previous projects, basic mission statement, and method to contact you is all you need to get hired as an employee or contractor. References and your ability to sell yourself over the phone/in the inte…

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    on “Ask HN: What are some good examples of personal websites (Software Engineers)?”
  8. Submitted TL;DR Guide to a Good Life as a story · 4 points

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  9. Submitted Don't read this Less CSS tutorial, it's highly addictive as a story · 4 points

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  10. Submitted Being a Zeromalist as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted A Good Day as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted The detailed inventory of everything I own as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Where to Live When You Can Live Anywhere as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Scripts.js – An Alternative to NPM Scripts as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Logic-Less JSX as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Always Forward as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Zeromalist – Zero is more as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Open Letter to SuperIntelligence as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Deep Dive into CSS Preprocessors (talk + slides) as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted An overview of developing Windows 8 apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Build a simple client-side MVC app with RequireJS as a story · 1 points

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