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alertdebugging.com is a personal blog at alertdebugging.com about programming and web. Since 2009, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “WebKit gets a new JavaScript profiler courtesy of 280 North (YC W08)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Francisco Tolmasky's blog, tied to the Cappuccino framework, with posts on web platform design, JavaScript debugging and profiling. HN commenters cite it in threads on web apps and JS tooling.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- WebKit gets a new JavaScript profiler courtesy of 280 North (YC W08)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-04-29
- Mockingbird, Cappuccino, and what really matters3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-11-04
- On HTML 5 Drag And Drop2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-08-17
- The Promise Of The Web2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-16
What Hacker News says?
Very exciting indeed. This is exactly what I wanted back in the day: http://alertdebugging.com/2011/09/22/the-promise-of-the-web/ (last paragraph).
Comment linking /2011/09/22/the-promise-of-the-web/
on “WebKit.js: Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit”Submitted WebKit gets a new JavaScript profiler courtesy of 280 North (YC W08) as a story · 80 points
HN discussionThere's a good article by Tolmasky addressing this here: http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/11/04/mockingbird-cappucc... Bottom line is that the scrolling is beautiful and works well, why would users not like it?
Comment linking /2009/11/04/mockingbird-cappuccino-and-what-really-matters/
on “GitHub Issues client built w/ Cappuccino, Atlas, NativeHost and Node on Heroku”Submitted Mockingbird, Cappuccino, and what really matters as a story · 75 points
HN discussionFrancisco Tolmasky (of 280 North / Cappuccino fame) had an insightful blog post about this subject: But let’s get to the real issue here, because this is once again a misunderstanding of design vs. programming. HTML, JS, and CSS do not magically create wonderful experiences on every platform they are run. As you can see from the above screenshot, they certainly have the nice side effect of working on said platforms,…
Comment linking /2009/11/04/mockingbird-cappuccino-and-what-really-matters/
on “Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results”Submitted The Promise of the Web as a story · 47 points
HN discussionWhile more profiling related than debugging - if you haven't seen it, check out this post on profiling by Francisco: http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/04/29/building-a-better-j...
Comment linking /2009/04/29/building-a-better-javascript-profiler-with-webkit/
on “Cappuccino Turns One”Submitted On HTML 5 Drag And Drop as a story · 32 points
HN discussion1) As mentioned in the blog post, we have taken the time to actually build in ObjJ support into WebKit's debugger and profiler. I would classify this as one of the best debugging and profiling experiences for JS out there (not that there is much competition). More info here: http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/04/29/building-a-better-j... 2/3) There is no need to ship .j's in production. We ship a compiler/obfuscator…
Comment linking /2009/04/29/building-a-better-javascript-profiler-with-webkit/
on “Cappuccino Turns One”Submitted Patents and Juries as a story · 19 points
HN discussionOur opinions on this specific issue: http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/11/04/mockingbird-cappucc...
Comment linking /2009/11/04/mockingbird-cappuccino-and-what-really-matters/
on “NativeHost: Run your Cappuccino applications on the desktop”Submitted On HTML 5 Drag and Drop as a story · 11 points
HN discussionPartly because every implementation of HTML5 drag and drop has a lot of bugs. Partly because the API is terrible. And partly because the reach is still pretty terrible compared to things like flash. http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/08/16/on-html-5-drag-and-...
Comment linking /2009/08/16/on-html-5-drag-and-drop/
on “Picurio (YC W09) unveils camera-in-browser for Mac/Safari”Submitted The Promise Of The Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIndeed, however you have to be careful about the outer scope that the assignment is happening in (because of IE): http://kangax.github.com/nfe/#jscript-bugs The other option, if you are on Webkit, is to assign something to the `displayName` property of a function or method. This is explained really well here: http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/04/29/building-a-better-j...
Comment linking /2009/04/29/building-a-better-javascript-profiler-with-webkit/
on “Apple JavaScript Coding Guidelines”
