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Adam Lynch
Personal blog · adamlynch.com · on HN as adamlynchwebprogramming
Adam Lynch's personal blog at adamlynch.com covers web and programming. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Show HN: Back of the Hand Map Game”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Adam Lynch's post on flexible data tables with CSS Grid, which includes code examples. One commenter cited it while asking for open source data table components.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Adam Lynch site
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Back of the Hand Map Game2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-24
What Hacker News says?
If you could give me an example, I'll look into it. I ran into issues like this with a strange streets (described here https://adamlynch.com/back-of-your-hand/#the-lioscarrig-driv... ), so I consider any two streets with the same name in the OpenStreetMap data to be the same street. I.e. if you put a marker down near any of them, you get points. However, if the section of road has a different name, then it's differe…
Comment linking /back-of-your-hand/
on “Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area”Submitted Flexible data tables with CSS Grid as a story · 304 points
HN discussionHi HN, I made Back Of Your Hand, a map-based game where you're given random street names and you have to locate them on the map. You can play solo or compete with friends on other devices. I made it for my dad as a Christmas present. It also gave me an opportunity to learn about geocoding, etc. Tech: serverless, Leaflet, Turf, Svelte, TypeScript, Cloudflare pages. I tried to use as many open / free tools as I could.…
Comment linking /back-of-your-hand
on “Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area”Submitted What to consider before adding Markdown to your app as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAm I the only one who read the article and hoping to see an implementation =)? Any suggestions on any good open source data tables components you guys use? The Adamn Lynch article that was on HN a few months ago was great, with code examples - https://adamlynch.com/flexible-data-tables-with-css-grid
Comment linking /flexible-data-tables-with-css-grid
on “Designing better data tables (2017)”Submitted Why empathy isn't a shortcut to great product design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons learned leading teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to improve your permissions UX as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Back of the Hand Map Game as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back of Your Hand (Game) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static site regeneration and focusing on what's important as a story · 1 points
HN discussion