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Wes Bos
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Wes Bos's personal blog at wesbos.com covers programming and web. Since 2007, 40 different Hacker News readers have linked it 73 times, most often “On being overwhelmed with our fast pace industry”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Wes Bos's courses and tutorials as an accessible way to learn JavaScript, React, CSS and full-stack web development. Commenters often suggest them to self-taught developers and beginners.
- Recommended for · 11 comments
- Praised as a clear, accessible source for JavaScript, React and CSS courses and tutorials; one commenter said he does a great job making the material accessible
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-05-07
- On being overwhelmed with our fast pace industry4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-05-26
- /courses/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-10-23
- Git Hot Tips4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-03-10
- Hacking Cheap Smart Photo Frames into a Family Dashboard – Wes Bos3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-09
- Sublime Text 2 visual tweaks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-01-08
- Speed Learning – How I consume and comprehend media at 2x2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-10
- From MailChimp to Sendy – how I saved $2,400/year on my email list2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-11
- Get All Angry Birds Levels in Chrome HTML5 Version with a quick hack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-11
What Hacker News says?
Not linear but I recommend: for HTML read chapter 3 & 4 of HTML spec - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ For CSS I recommend Wes Bos tutorials about flexbox and grid - https://wesbos.com/courses and this blog: https://ishadeed.com/articles/
Comment linking /courses
on “HTML Tips (2020)”Submitted What I learned interviewing with Google as a story · 164 points
HN discussionI agree I personally don't like to download offline tools for this sort of work. I haven't used it for anything serious - I just took an overall look at it after https://wesbos.com/ gave it a shout out and like you - decided it looked promising. Mainly just posted the link to share the knowledge :)
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on “Show HN: Layoutit – An interactive CSS Grid generator”Submitted Defeat the New York Times Paywall with 2 lines of CSS (or a Chrome Extension) as a story · 58 points
HN discussionCheck out Wes Bos’s courses. He does a great job of making this stuff accessible. http://wesbos.com
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on “Guide to JavaScript Frameworks”Submitted Get All Angry Birds Levels in Chrome HTML5 Version with a quick hack as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI've created a theme + colour scheme called cobalt2 http://wesbos.com/cobalt2-theme-sublime-text-2/
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on “My Top Sublime Text 2 Plugins”Submitted Node.js module for CoffeeScript complier Growl notifications as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI can’t recommend Wes Bos videos [0] enough (I’m not affiliated). Something clicked for me watching his videos, made learning parts of JS easier. The JS courses are free. [1] https://wesbos.com/courses/
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on “Ask HN: How do I learn JavaScript?”Submitted Korean 27″ Apple IPS displays and a Macbook Pro as a story · 12 points
HN discussionhttps://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS https://wesbos.com/es6-for-everyone/ https://mostly-adequate.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/ https://egghead.io/
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on “Ask HN: Resources for catching up on modern JavaScript for Python/C++ Programmer”Submitted Draw to canvas real time with Node.JS, Web Sockets and Socket.io as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI really like Wes Bos' courses, they cover full stack Javascript and some other FE stuff if you're interested in that. https://wesbos.com/courses/ is his list of courses.
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on “Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?”Submitted A first look at Sublime Text 3 as a story · 9 points
HN discussionLooking at the screenshots and the CSS in question, and presuming that before it just wasn’t specifying fonts at all, I prefer the “before” result if I’m the consumer, mostly because I like the fonts I set in my browser, and consider Inter and Incosolata a slight regression. Also most of the other styles I disagree with; capping the width and reducing the line-height for headings is about all I actually agree with i…
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on “Prettifying Org Mode with CSS”Submitted HTML5 Face Detection + Canvas + JavaScript = HTML5 Glasses as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThey went from a terrible font to a bad font. There are so many nice ones [e.g. have a look at https://wesbos.com/programming-fonts/ ], why not pick one of these? Inconsolata or Menlo would be a big improvement over what they chose now. Missed opportunity, IMHO.
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on “OpenBSD: New console font Spleen made default”Submitted An Intro to Using Npm and ES6 Modules for Front End Development as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAs one person living in one of those countries with greatly reduced purchase power, I really appreciate the way Wes Bos[1] has done it for his courses (I've bought a couple of them). He's got an episode on his podcast on how he implemented it [2]. It does sound like some work and I'm not saying you should discount or give away your work though. [1] https://wesbos.com/ [2] https://syntax.fm/show/233/hasty-treat-purch…
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on “Show HN: Wrote book that builds a SaaS boilerplate. Save weeks on side projects”Submitted Sublime Text 2 visual tweaks as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web Follow following Youtube channels: 1. FreeCodeCamp: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ 2. The New Boston : https://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston/featured 3. Ben Award : https://www.youtube.com/user/99baddawg/featured Outside Youtube: 1. Wes Bos : https://wesbos.com/ 2. Udemy : https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript/ 3. CSS Tricks: https://cs…
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on “Ask HN: Self-taught devs, what are the best cheap resources for learning webdev?”Submitted Hacking Cheap Smart Photo Frames into a Family Dashboard – Wes Bos as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI'm personally a big fan of Frontend Masters: https://frontendmasters.com . I've found it to be one of the most comprehensive resources for web development out there, especially for front-end work. I think it's a great starting point for any prospective web dev, especially if you're keen on learning some crucial JS concepts. Once you dive a bit into the fundamentals, you can also check out Wes Bos's suite of courses…
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on “Ask HN: Self-taught devs, what are the best cheap resources for learning webdev?”Submitted The Best Flexbox Resources as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWes Bos ( https://wesbos.com ) has an upcoming advanced React video course on building a project that'll use Prisma. It's coming out around August and it's supposed to be epic. You can look at the code for final project here, maybe it'll be useful: https://github.com/wesbos/Advanced-React
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on “Ask HN: Is anyone using GraphCool or Prisma in production?”Submitted Git Hot Tips as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've been doing his React course and it's been very helpful so far. I have no reason to believe his other course aren't just as good: http://wesbos.com/courses/ NOTE: Some of his courses are paid. The plain JS course is free though. However, I paid for the React course and feel it was very worth it.
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on “Ask HN: Is this is a good way to learn JavaScript?”Submitted Matt Mullenweg to WordPress Community: “Learn JavaScript, Deeply” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you're just starting out, I highly recommend checking out Wes Bos's React tutorial series. He's refreshed the contents of many of them to remain current with the evolving changes of React: https://wesbos.com/
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on “React State Management – The Museum”Submitted From MailChimp to Sendy – how I saved $2,400/year on my email list as a story · 4 points
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