jon_kuperman

Yes! Brand new!

What a journey!

Is this satire?

haha that's the 5th link in the blog post

Nope! Everything is free except the first link!

I think that's just because I work at Twitter so most of the early contributions were coworkers! :D

Creator here. Sorry if that wasn't clear! I only meant this to be inspiring for people to "keep trying" even when they face rejection!

Yeah, that's a really cool idea! I'll add an issue.

disclosure: self submission

I'm not saying it's your fault. Just that it's down. :-)

Hey all, author here. You all are amazing and took down my website! If it's not loading for you, I put the post in a gist which can be found here: https://gist.github.com/jkup/dcaa56f1d066409d17f5

Honestly, I spend a lot of my time writing JavaScript and Scala. My point with the article is just that PHP has a lot of stigma that creates a self fulfilling prophecy of being a 'bad language'.

Agreed. I've been in the Bay Area for ~1 year and definitely see the Ruby / Node / Java trend but back in Michigan it seemed like every tech job I'd run across was PHP or .NET.

thanks for the feedback! I was a little stuck on where to go next but I do agree that different keyboard layouts would be huge.

http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/

Awesome list! I've been using jekyll for about 2 years and I really like it. It's crazy that Jekyll is number 1 and 2 considering Octopress runs on it.

Someone should make a resource that allows you to see if your website is ready for the front page of HN :/

Hadn't seen that, thanks for the share.

Absolutely, they would be the ideal answer but a lot of times this gets the job done better than just having 10 parameters to your function.

haha a friend just showed me named parameters in python! /jealous

If the code is already cached on the device, which I'm assuming it is in most cases. What is it that is slowing down the UX experience?

20!? I can't get past 11...

That would definitely be cool! I also would love if some of these game parts could be made into modules so I could use them to make other classic games...

Really interesting post for sure.

I'm not really seeing the size advantage here. All of the mentioned frameworks are cached on popular CDN's and I just don't think you're really getting much of a win out of creating your own, smaller files.

Also, I'm always wary of companies that want to re-invent the wheel as opposed to using open-sourced, well-documented projects. If I start at your company and you use Backbone, not only is there a good chance I can come in with a good understanding of your code -- but I can easily check on Google for any questions I have. If I start at a company that has built their own, closed-source, custom JS framework -- I'll have to ask internally every time I have trouble figuring something out.

It may be necessary for your product, but to me it always raises a flag when people create their own proprietary version of something that already has been done.

Anyway, a great read for sure!

Yeah getting access to their WordPress blog doesn't really prove anything.

I'm using them in a side project, it's on Github: https://github.com/m1ck3y/inspires/blob/master/app/client/vi...

I don't even know what this does yet but the website looks awesome! I can't stop scrolling...

Yep, expect 100% blank iPhone's coming in IOS 8.

I switched over after the last build and things have been really stable.

That's interesting. I think classes are supposed to have a single responsibility according to S.O.L.I.D so it seems to make sense to have a lot of them.