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James Long

Popular posts: 32
Total points: 7,722
HN comments: 2,945
Rank: #116 personal

Visit jlongster.com → On Hacker News Jun 2009 – Jul 2024

Software Engineering 19 Web & Frontend 12 Open Source 3 Life, Learning & Writing 3 Programming Languages 3 Career & Management 3

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1

Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome

2014632 points219 commentscited by 16Web & Frontend details

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First Impressions Using React Native

2015539 points191 comments Web & Frontend details

3

Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever

2015378 points80 comments Web & Frontend details

4

Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps

2019285 points241 comments Software Engineering details

5

Prettier 1.0

2017270 points76 comments Tools & Productivity details

6

Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Instead

2014242 points278 comments Software Engineering details

7

Immutable Data Structures and JavaScript

2015177 points70 comments Software Engineering details

8

What’s in a Continuation (2016)

2017159 points51 comments Software Engineering details

9

Lisp: It's Not About Macros, It's About Read

2012158 points99 comments Programming Languages details

10

Lisp: it's not about macros, it's about READ (2012)

2016154 points99 comments Programming Languages details

11

Scheme is also dead on the iPhone

2010150 points51 comments Software Engineering details

12

Taming the Asynchronous Beast with CSP in JavaScript

2014147 points29 commentscited by 6Software Engineering details

13

Transducers.js: A JavaScript Library for Transformation of Data

2014139 points20 commentscited by 4Software Engineering details

14

A Simple Way to Route with Redux

2015124 points54 comments Web & Frontend details

15

Two Weird Tricks with Redux

2016122 points33 comments Web & Frontend details

16

Compiling JSX with Sweet.js using Readtables

2014114 points23 comments Web & Frontend details

17

Transducers.js Round 2 with Benchmarks

2014104 points18 comments Software Engineering details

18

Compiling LLJS to asm.js

2013101 points34 comments Software Engineering details

19

Writing apps for the iPhone in Scheme

2009101 points14 commentscited by 6Software Engineering details