Best of 2016

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2016. 1,304 posts.

Software Engineering
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The Human Cost of Tech Debt

Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Infragistics blog. Head over to their site and check out the original. While you’re there, have a look at the other blog authors and their product offering. If you’re not already familiar with the concept of technical debt, it’s worth becoming familiar with it. I…

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Codebase Refactoring with Go

Go should add the ability to create alternate equivalent names for types, in order to enable gradual code repair during codebase refactoring. This article explains the need for that ability and the implications of not having it for today’s large Go codebases. This article also examines some potential solutions…

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Introducing Custom Elements

A little over a year ago, we announced the introduction of slot-based shadow DOM API, a lightweight mechanism to encapsulate a DOM tree by allowing the creation of a parallel DOM tree on an element called a “shadow tree” that replaces the rendering of the element without modifying the regular DOM tree.