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Andy Shora

Personal blog · andyshora.com · on HN as andyshorawebprogramming

Andy Shora's personal blog at andyshora.com covers web and programming. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Promises in AngularJS, Explained as a Cartoon”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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24mentions?
12HN people?
2012–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Andy Shora's posts on front-end workarounds, such as a CSS padding trick to reserve image dimensions and a JavaScript approach to lazy-loading images, plus a security checklist for full stack developers.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

This is my personal website where I publish experiments. I work as Head of TFG Labs at Twenty First Group - Driving AI Innovation in Sports Intelligence

The author on HN?

andyshora · 328 karma · member since 2011

Frontend Developer based in London. https://www.andyshora.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Promises in AngularJS, Explained as a Cartoon
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-10-21
  2. The Myth of the Full-stack Developer
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-06-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. davidmurdoch · 2020-11-09
    > The only annoying part is still that the image dimensions are not reserved appropriately, even with present width and height attributes. So the layout can jump around if you scroll past the not yet loaded image. If you have an idea how to deal with that within picture groups, I love to hear about it. See https://www.andyshora.com/css-image-container-padding-hack.h... I used the trick on https://jessicakhope.com's…

    Comment linking /css-image-container-padding-hack.html

    on “I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript”
  2. andyshora · 2013-08-10

    Submitted How Bad is DOM Interaction Really? as a story · 90 points

    HN discussion
  3. flavio81 · 2017-08-29
    TL;DR: The advice is: "use Open source software", "add logging", "set all pages to HTTPS" and follow a "top 10 list of the most critical security threats" Sad state of things. The concept of having your work done by "Full Stack Developer" will not be nice for opening up potential security holes, in my opinion. Additionally, I don't think there exists a real "Full Stack" dev, and I'm not alone in this opinion; click…

    Comment linking /full-stack-developers.html

    on “Security Checklist for Full Stack Web Developers”
  4. andyshora · 2013-10-16

    Submitted Unit Testing Best Practices in AngularJS as a story · 71 points

    HN discussion
  5. andyshora · 2014-06-05

    Submitted The Myth of the Full-stack Developer as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  6. andyshora · 2012-06-24

    Submitted Nudge users towards goals with annoying CSS3 arrows as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  7. andyshora · 2014-02-11

    Submitted A responsive image slider/carousel in AngularJS and CSS as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  8. andyshora · 2013-10-21

    Submitted Promises in AngularJS, Explained as a Cartoon as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  9. andyshora · 2014-07-22

    Submitted Show HN: Stackey.com, a place where you can stack things that go together as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  10. andyshora · 2015-05-03

    Submitted Building a Static Website with Roots as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. leonvonblut · 2014-07-14

    Submitted Promises in AngularJS, Explained as a Cartoon as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. andyshora · 2013-08-12

    Submitted Sizing Fluid Image Containers with a Little CSS Padding Hack as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. 20years · 2016-03-29

    Submitted The Myth of the Full-Stack Developer as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. arnauddri · 2014-12-16

    Submitted Promises in AngularJS, Explained as a Cartoon as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. andyshora · 2019-01-08

    Submitted Visualising Systems of Trust with Simulations of Vampire Bats as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. ChittiNaidu · 2017-10-25

    Submitted The Myth of the Full-Stack Developer (2014) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. dtawfik1 · 2015-12-19

    Submitted Promises in AngularJS, Explained as a Cartoon as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. andyshora · 2015-08-17

    Submitted Slagging Off JavaScript Frameworks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. instakill · 2014-12-12

    Submitted Promises in AngularJS explained as a cartoon as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. andyshora · 2014-01-02

    Submitted Frontenders to Follow on Twitter in 2014 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. iamjeff · 2016-09-08

    Submitted The Myth of the Full-Stack Developer (2014) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. sebg · 2016-03-15

    Submitted Tweening Custom Shapes and Paths in D3.js as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. andyshora · 2014-03-08

    Submitted Grunt YSlow, a Grunt Task to Measure and Grade Web Page Performance as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. mos2 · 2013-11-04

    Submitted Promises in AngularJS, Explained as a Cartoon as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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