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Andrew Hedges

Personal blog · andrew.hedges.name/blogprogrammingcareer

Andrew Hedges writes segdeha.com/blog, a personal blog at andrew.hedges.name about programming and career. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It has a working feed you can follow.

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2008–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2010

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Why HN links it

Andrew Hedges' personal site hosts small web experiments, including a JavaScript speed test and a random number generator. HN readers link it as an example of a simple personal project site.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Andrew Hedges is an engineering leader and educator with more than 25 years of experience in web development, including stints at Digg, Disney, Apple, and Zapier. Founder of Mad Egg Labs, he was a co-founder of Assistiv Labs, providers of a platform for manual accessibility testing, and The Collab L

What Hacker News says?

  1. Simple and Functional: http://andrew.hedges.name/ A horrible website for horrible people (in the style of CAH): http://jefflombard.com/ (full disclaimer last one is my own site, anyone is welcome to clone it, it's based off of cards against humanity and available under creative commons: https://github.com/jefflombard/jefflombard.com )

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?”
  2. Submitted Personal Branding for Introverts as a story · 79 points

    HN discussion
  3. Some JS tests: http://www.celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeed2007.php http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/speed_test/index4.html Needless to say, it's fast...

    Comment linking /experiments/speed_test/index4.html

    on “The Google Chrome download link is live.”
  4. Submitted When is a global variable not a variable? as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. Unless someone has a better idea, I'll give them out in this fashion: 1) Anyone who requests one gets added to the list (I'll do this tomorrow afternoon). If it's not requested, I'll assume not, just because some people are leaving comments about "good idea" etc. 2) I'll put them in a spreadsheet and then use http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/random/ to generate 3 random numbers and attempt to contact those peop…

    Comment linking /experiments/random/

    on “Pay It Forward”
  6. Submitted CSS Fast Nav: Because (perception of) speed matters as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion

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