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0xDECAFBAD
Personal blog · decafbad.com/blogprogrammingweb
0xDECAFBAD is a personal blog at decafbad.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Queue everything and delight everyone”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The personal blog of 0xDECAFBAD, covering web topics such as RSS, HTML5 drag and drop, tagging, queueing and migrating from WordPress to Jekyll. Commenters mostly cite its posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Queue everything and delight everyone5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2008-07-06
- HTML5 drag and drop in Firefox 3.53 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-07-16
What Hacker News says?
> Firefox did, with a subscribe button in the address bar. https://mariolurig.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/firefox-rs... Is that from Firefox 3.6? I would have to confirm this, but I'm pretty sure they started de-emphasizing RSS around 2011 with Firefox 4.0. It was many years ago, I was looking at some discussion about it here: https://decafbad.com/blog/2011/01/15/how-to-use-feed-auto-di... I remember being rustle…
Comment linking /blog/2011/01/15/how-to-use-feed-auto-discovery-in-firefox-4/
on “It’s Time to Get Back to RSS”Submitted Queue everything and delight everyone as a story · 33 points
HN discussion> The reason RSS failed to reach mainstream adoption by users is because it is not user friendly at all. While I love RSS myself, no amount of tech nerd nostalgia is going to make it popular enough that your mom starts using it. I think it is a false premise that something is only valid if "mom starts using it". That is the profit-driven mentality. eg. "how can we market this? How can we expand RSS market share into…
Comment linking /blog/2011/01/15/how-to-use-feed-auto-discovery-in-firefox-4/
on “It’s Time to Get Back to RSS”Submitted HTML5 drag and drop in Firefox 3.5 as a story · 30 points
HN discussionactually, they are most likely using part of the new drag and drop API in HTML5. firefox and chrome both provide a `ev.originalEvent.dataTransfer` object as part of the DragEvent interface. additionally (and importantly), they allow the drag/drop to originate from outside of the browser. see: http://decafbad.com/blog/2009/07/15/html5-drag-and-drop and: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/07/html5-drag-and-drop/
Comment linking /blog/2009/07/15/html5-drag-and-drop
on “Gmail: Drag and drop attachments onto messages”Submitted Firefox Sync server on Google App Engine as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI'll +1 everyone who is recommending Jekyll. I've rolled my own blog engines (first one was Java/Struts 10 years ago) but I'm loving the zen of blogging via creating and pushing Markdown files to GitHub. It's simple, provides me with a versioned and easily portable archive and doesn't require constant security updates. Here are some tips from migrating from WP: http://decafbad.com/blog/2011/06/08/moved-to-jekyll
Comment linking /blog/2011/06/08/moved-to-jekyll
on “Ask HN: Best blogging platform?”Submitted Queue everything and delight everyone as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHere are my top ten, mostly web-related in some way because of my interests. These are the "loud alpha geeks" - the ones who broadcast their interests via regularly-updated blogs or curated links. (There are plenty of "quiet alpha geeks" who are just as "alpha" but not as easy to follow online.) Brad Fitzpatrick ( http://brad.livejournal.com/ ) - creator of LiveJournal and Danga, now at Google working on PubSubHubbu…
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on “Ask HN: Who are the Alpha Geeks you follow?”Submitted Queue everything and delight everyone as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPoint taken. I have to add something like that. A good article on queueing used in a web context is http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/07/04/queue-everything-and-del...
Comment linking /blog/2008/07/04/queue-everything-and-delight-everyone
on “Celery 1.0 released”Submitted What happened to feed auto-discovery in Firefox 4? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLes Orchard (who used to work for delicious.com) has a good response to this article. Part of his argument is that Flickr is a really bad place to start a tag analysis, since people generally only tag their own stuff (the big win for tags comes when lots of people provide their personal tags for a single entity, meaning you can look at the data in aggregate). http://decafbad.com/blog/2009/01/18/tags-do-work-for-me-a…
Comment linking /blog/2009/01/18/tags-do-work-for-me-at-least
on “Do Tags Work?”Submitted Let a million bookmarks bloom as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDrag and drop from the desktop is an HTML5 feature, but support elsewhere may not be as strong as in Chrome. Here's an earlier article about support in FF: http://decafbad.com/blog/2009/07/15/html5-drag-and-drop Last I checked, one weakness of the FF support is that it can only read a dropped file into memory in its entirety -- not by fileBlob slices. That may not be fatal for typical-sized email attachments, but is…
Comment linking /blog/2009/07/15/html5-drag-and-drop
on “With A Small, Simple Feature, Gmail Continues Its Assault On Desktop Email”Submitted Reviving my Commodore 64 history with a uIEC/SD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI used this http://decafbad.com/2009/01/twitter-friend-faves-opml/ to create an OPML file, and then edited it so it contained status feeds instead of favorites. I just stumbled up on this too, which is probably a better idea: http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=408
Comment linking /2009/01/twitter-friend-faves-opml/
on “Is Twitter Killing RSS?”Submitted Queue everything and delight everyone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Queue everything and delight everyone (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Media Cyborg as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Queue everything and delight everyone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Newly Digital in 1983 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Laconica up and running as a story · 1 points
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