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arandomurl
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.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Design Tips for Programmers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-07-06
- Developing with CouchDB on Android2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-14
- Pacman in HTML5 / Canvas2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-26
What Hacker News says?
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”Submitted Working Remotely as a story · 201 points
HN discussionI 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”Submitted Helicopter Game using HTML5 (Canvas / font-face etc) as a story · 170 points
HN discussionThis 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]”Submitted Design Tips for Programmers as a story · 74 points
HN discussionThis 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]?”Submitted Developing with CouchDB on Android as a story · 60 points
HN discussiongreat 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?”Submitted Pacman in HTML5 / Canvas as a story · 44 points
HN discussionThis 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)”Submitted Coding for the Mobile Web as a story · 43 points
HN discussionthe 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…
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on “Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Deadpooled”Submitted Ideas I would like to build / see built as a story · 36 points
HN discussionThe 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”Submitted Why PouchDB? CouchDB in the browser as a story · 30 points
HN discussionThe 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?”Submitted On Joining CouchOne (and “getting” open source) as a story · 29 points
HN discussion"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”Submitted Thinking outloud about Public Speaking as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWhat 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”Submitted How I Met Node.js as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Javascript Documentation Generation as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Tech Dating" In London as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Terrible Review of The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on IndexedDB as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upmock is dead, long live Upmock (My OS web design tool) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problems getting started in Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Assigning keyboard shortcuts to applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Erlang: The problem with being "new" as a story · 2 points
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