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Personal blog · arandomurl.com · on HN as daleharveyprogrammingwebdesign

arandomurl is a personal blog at arandomurl.com about programming, web and design. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Design Tips for Programmers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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34mentions?
5HN people?
2008–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2010

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a 2010 post of design tips for programmers, from which one commenter quotes a usability line, and for an HTML5 Pacman implementation that another commenter contrasts with plain CSS and JavaScript.

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.

The author on HN?

daleharvey · 9,492 karma · member since 2008

can email me at: dale@arandomurl.com blog: http://arandomurl.com twitter: @daleharvey

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. Design Tips for Programmers
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-07-06
  2. Developing with CouchDB on Android
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-14
  3. Pacman in HTML5 / Canvas
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. they are on campfire, they are constantly in communication I echoed his sentiments in a post I wrote about working remotely - http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html

    Comment linking /2011/09/03/working-remotely.html

    on “How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous”
  2. Submitted Working Remotely as a story · 201 points

    HN discussion
  3. I wrote about working remotely a bit more from the employees perspective @ http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html Since I wrote that post I joined Mozilla as the only employee out of Scotland and I feel like I need to write the post again, Mozilla are superb at dealing with remote employees which I am sure comes from the foundations as an open source project.

    Comment linking /2011/09/03/working-remotely.html

    on “How I manage 40 people remotely”
  4. Submitted Helicopter Game using HTML5 (Canvas / font-face etc) as a story · 170 points

    HN discussion
  5. This looks great, but it has the same problem I have with every other web based design tool, it aspires to be a WYSIWYG editor. I agree there is a need, but I think that need is exaggerated, writing html / css is pretty easy, its not fun but its generally nothing compared to the overall work, half the time you still have to do it manually anyway since it has to fit into frameworks etc. I want something that lets me…

    Comment linking /2012/10/15/upmock-is-dead.html

    on “Sneak peek of Macaw – a code-savvy web design tool [video]”
  6. Submitted Design Tips for Programmers as a story · 74 points

    HN discussion
  7. This has been happening to me recently as well, last month I blogged about a project that people have generally been finding interesting , posted it on hacker news and it climbed up to the top of the front page then suddenly disappeared I had seen this before and made sure to not post links to the submission anywhere (apart from on the post itself, as a replacement comments) http://arandomurl.com/2012/03/27/pouchdb-…

    Comment linking /2012/03/27/pouchdb-is-couchdb-in-the-browser.html

    on “Ask HN: Why are a large proportion of legit posts being marked [dead]?”
  8. Submitted Developing with CouchDB on Android as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  9. great list, thanks I wrote a blog post the went very briefly about design tips for programmers http://arandomurl.com/2010/07/07/design-tips-for-programmers... there is also a few linked resources from there, the video and the book at the end are really good.

    Comment linking /2010/07/07/design-tips-for-programmers.html

    on “Ask HN: Modern web design resources?”
  10. Submitted Pacman in HTML5 / Canvas as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  11. This is a great writeup for would be contributors. I recently ran a questionnaire for potential and new open source contributors, pretty unanimously the responses were split between People who havent contributed: had maybe tried, were nervous about getting started, lacked good guidance from the project and in general People who had: Found life a lot easier once they got over the initial hump, were extremely grateful…

    Comment linking /2013/10/24/problems-getting-started-in-open-source.html

    on “Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius (2012)”
  12. Submitted Coding for the Mobile Web as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  13. the great thing about side projects is they cant "fail" I have http://erldocs.com - nice ui to the erlang documentation http://arandomurl.com - blog / html5 games http://pastebin.me - pastebin that executes js http://erlangotp.com - information about erlang http://talk.io - chat client some are virtually silent, some are reasonably popular, I dont worry about promoting them or getting visitors etc, 2 of them are sti…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Deadpooled”
  14. Submitted Ideas I would like to build / see built as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  15. The OP pretty much sums up exactly my experience working remotely at mozilla (and previously couchbase). I did write about it previously, not as well though - http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html

    Comment linking /2011/09/03/working-remotely.html

    on “What It's Like To Work Future Style”
  16. Submitted Why PouchDB? CouchDB in the browser as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  17. The last 3 companies I have worked for (one of them a startup I cofounded) I have worked for remotely, I wrote about it http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html I was actually surprised speaking to a university lecturer today that had no idea companies like Mozilla hired people remotely. I had somewhat taken it for granted as the norm.

    Comment linking /2011/09/03/working-remotely.html

    on “Ask HN: On companies hiring remote developers and why don't you do it?”
  18. Submitted On Joining CouchOne (and “getting” open source) as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  19. "The hard fact is if a user cannot learn how to use a feature, it might as well not exist." - Dale Harvey, from this page: http://arandomurl.com/2010/07/07/design-tips-for-programmers...

    Comment linking /2010/07/07/design-tips-for-programmers.html

    on “Ask HN: Non-Cliche Quotes That Really Hit Home”
  20. Submitted Thinking outloud about Public Speaking as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  21. What part of it is HTML5? http://i.v3n.us/8YeR EDIT: This is just plain 'ol CSS & JavaScript like we've been using for years. Unlike this implementation: http://arandomurl.com/2010/07/25/html5-pacman.html

    Comment linking /2010/07/25/html5-pacman.html

    on “Pacman in HTMTL5”
  22. Submitted How I Met Node.js as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Javascript Documentation Generation as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted "Tech Dating" In London as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted A Terrible Review of The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Thoughts on IndexedDB as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Upmock is dead, long live Upmock (My OS web design tool) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Problems getting started in Open Source as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Assigning keyboard shortcuts to applications as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Erlang: The problem with being "new" as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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