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Will King

Personal blog · wking.dev/library · on HN as wkingdesignprogramming

Will King's personal blog at wking.dev covers design and programming. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Don't design your database like a front end developer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-31, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
5HN people?
2022–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2022

My name is Will King, and I am a design engineer...among many other things. You can find all of that work below and if you see something you like then let's be friends.

The author on HN?

wking · 29 karma · member since 2018

Senior Frontend Engineer @ Crunchy Data. Also, building a little corner of the internet for people who love building digital products @ wking.dev

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Don't design your database like a front end developer
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-02
  2. Opinionated products breed passionate customers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Stop Saying Best Practice as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Stop Saying Best Practice (2023) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A Pattern for Growth as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted How to manually set table names in Prisma and why you should as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Know your high performing customers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Opinionated products breed passionate customers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Don't design your database like a front end developer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Opinionated products breed passionate customers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Don't design your database like a front end developer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted TikTok Is the New Excel as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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