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Andy Appleton

Personal blog · floatleft.com/notebookprogrammingweb

Andy Appleton writes Float Left, a personal blog at floatleft.com about programming and web. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Making Sublime Text 2 Beautiful”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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13mentions?
5HN people?
2012–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

Andy Appleton's notebook of posts on setting up and theming Sublime Text 2. The one comment links a post on making Sublime Text 2 beautiful, citing it against the thread's view that the default look is poor.

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.

Andy Appleton is a web developer based in Berkshire, UK.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Making Sublime Text 2 Beautiful
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. pdog · 2013-04-09
    Yeah, I didn't understand this either. "Sublime's initial look leaves a lot to be desired." Really? I think it looks great. Here's another post that calls Sublime's default theme "pretty ugly" and "god-awful": http://floatleft.com/notebook/making-sublime-text-2-beautifu...

    Comment linking /notebook/making-sublime-text-2-beautiful

    on “Setting up Sublime Text 2”
  2. appleton · 2012-08-24

    Submitted Backbone has made me a better programmer as a story · 169 points

    HN discussion
  3. appleton · 2013-04-21

    Submitted Diving into AngularJS as a story · 167 points

    HN discussion
  4. appleton · 2012-08-06

    Submitted Making Sublime Text 2 Beautiful as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. appleton · 2012-11-19

    Submitted Show HN: A handy CoffeeScript development server as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  6. appleton · 2013-03-07

    Submitted Responsive Web Design is not a war as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. appleton · 2012-12-17

    Submitted A simple Backbone caching plugin as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. sgottit · 2013-10-25

    Submitted Taking Ember for a Spin as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. appleton · 2012-10-02

    Submitted Testing your JavaScript with Jasmine and Grunt as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. appleton · 2014-02-03

    Submitted Learning to type like a grown up as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. charlietran · 2013-10-25

    Submitted [An Angular dev] Taking Ember for a spin as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. appleton · 2013-01-02

    Submitted Prefilling Backbone data as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. taytus · 2012-12-09

    Submitted CoffeeScript is just JavaScript | Float Left as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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