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Alec Lownes

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Alec Lownes's personal blog at aleclownes.com covers programming and web. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2017–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog as the source of a CRT display CSS effect. One commenter found it by inspecting the site to see how the effect was built.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. CSS was borrowed from here: http://aleclownes.com/2017/02/01/crt-display.html Found it after inspecting the site to see how it was done.

    Comment linking /2017/02/01/crt-display.html

    on “The PsychDOS Desktop Environment”
  2. Submitted Moving from React-Redux to Elm as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Palindromic Rolling Hash as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Dynamic Archived Web Services in IPFS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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