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    Anil Dash

    medium.com/@anildash · Personal blog · on HN since 2015

    Anil Dash, a tech writer and entrepreneur, writes on the web's design, social media, JavaScript, and the ethics of tech.

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    What HN says

    HN commenters link his Medium posts on the web's missing building blocks and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, though one notes the irony of discussing web centralization on Medium.

    Stats for nerds
    28HN people shared it
    27linked in comments
    179story points
    Apr 2018last shared
    2016people per year2018

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      What if JavaScript wins?
      3 people · 85 points · first shared 2018 · 85 comments on HN
    2. 2
      It is absolutely fair and necessary to be critical of Zuckerbergs Philanthropy
      2 people · 24 points · first shared 2015 · 4 comments on HN
    3. 3
      The lost infrastructure of social media
      3 people · 16 points · first shared 2016 · 2 comments on HN
    4. 4
      The Printer We Need
      1 person · 13 points · first shared 2017 · 9 comments on HN
    5. 5
      Anil Dash: Ideas to Fix Twitter
      3 people · 10 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      The End of Thinkup
      4 people · 8 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      The Missing Building Blocks of the Web – Anil Dash – Medium
      5 people · 7 points · first shared 2018 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Amazon Echo and Alexa really matter
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
    9. 9
      Forget “Why?”, it’s time to get to work. – Medium
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      I’m the most magnanimous motherfucker you know
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • tannhaeuserApr 2018

      Worse, linking to Amil Dash's article on medium [1], of all things, makes complaining about oligopolization of the Web kind of inconsequential.

      [1]: https://medium.com/@anildash/the-missing-building-blocks-of-the-web-3fa490ae5cbc

    • onewaystreetApr 2016

      The second half of this piece states the fear pretty well: https://medium.com/@anildash/how-to-look-at-the-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-f357e5dd8c63

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