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Wynn Netherland
Personal blog · wynnnetherland.comprogrammingwriting
Wynn Netherland's personal blog at wynnnetherland.com covers programming and writing. Since 2009, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “What makes a good API wrapper? ”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Wynn Netherland's posts on WordPress theme development and on vim plugins for writing. Commenters cite them as sources rather than praising them.
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.
Team builder. API nerd.
Most-linked posts?
- What makes a good API wrapper? 3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-12-20
- Grc - it's like stylesheets for your terminal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-18
- List of Vim plugins for writers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-25
What Hacker News says?
I'll quote Wynn Netherland on a post about his take on the very same problem: "I'm a Rubyist. But I'm also a pragmatic front-end developer. When I have to write a full-stack solution, I pick Rails or Sinatra because writing Ruby is a joy and the Ruby ecosystem is so darn cool. But when I have to create a CMS-based site for myself or a client I love the usability and community behind WordPress. Although I can relucta…
Comment linking /journal/sass-up-your-wordpress-themes-with-compass
on “Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998.”Submitted Grc - it's like stylesheets for your terminal as a story · 155 points
HN discussionReed Esau creates a bunch of vim plugins for writing, I've found them to work very nice: http://wynnnetherland.com/journal/reed-esau-s-growing-list-o...
Comment linking /journal/reed-esau-s-growing-list-of-vim-plugins-for-writers
on “Using Vim as a writing environment”Submitted GitHub is a fish bowl as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSubmitted A CLI for Amazon Athena as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Typekit vs. Font Squirrel as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What makes a good API wrapper? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What makes a good API wrapper? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted List of Vim plugins for writers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Putting the "emote" in remote work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Tell Me How Fast I Read as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A stylesheet author's guide to terminal colors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hypermedia APIs - less hype, more media, please as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What makes a good API wrapper? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Octopress Classic is the new Kubrick as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub is a fish bowl (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Suppress generated JavaScript on GitHub diffs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A stylesheet author's guide to terminal colors (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bootstrapping consistency as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Patches speak louder than words as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim plugin to highlight words to avoid in tech writing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to get great support as a technical user as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things we learned building TweetCongress.org (video and slides) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use JavaScript to put GitHub info on your site as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby wrapper for the new LinkedIn API as a story · 1 points
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