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Axod's Hack
Personal blog · axod.blogspot.comprogrammingstartups
Axod's Hack is a personal blog at axod.blogspot.com about programming and startups. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Revenue / Browser on mibbit”. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on web development, including AJAX HTTP headers and Comet, and a 2009 post on browser ad revenue tied to the Mibbit client. Commenters cite these posts as evidence; none judge the writing.
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.
Axod's thoughts on programming, Affiliate Marketing, startups, web2.0, and anything else I think of.
Most-linked posts?
- Revenue / Browser on mibbit3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-06-16
- The benefits of using Google Closure 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-20
What Hacker News says?
Not to pedal my own wares, but... ;) http://axod.blogspot.com/2009/12/websocket-some-numbers.html Also a caveat followup - websocket don't play nice with some proxies/nat/firewall setups. Either need https, or fallback on comet.
Comment linking /2009/12/websocket-some-numbers.html
on “Node.js powers comet for plurk (100k+ users at once)”Submitted Mibbit supports WebSocket, some initial numbers. as a story · 84 points
HN discussionI know the "official" reason, but I'm curious if there's any correlation between the blocking of mibbit and axod's post about how much revenue mibbit was making here ( http://axod.blogspot.com/2009/06/revenue-browser.html ) - the timing is awfully suspicious. I mean, a day after the post they "magically" have their own web client up that they would rather you use. I had a look at the qwebirc client they implemented,…
Comment linking /2009/06/revenue-browser.html
on “Freenode has blocked the Mibbit client permanently.”Submitted Revenue / Browser on mibbit as a story · 65 points
HN discussionaxod, I came across this the other day: http://axod.blogspot.com/ I've been getting into comet a bit more lately, and am wondering (if you don't mind telling of course) 1) what you are currently using on the backend and 2) if you ever checked out Meteor (which I was playing with today)?
Comment linking /
on “Optimizing HTTP headers for ‘ajax’ webapps”Submitted Websocket gets an update - the details. as a story · 34 points
HN discussionIf you have to go lower level and implement the server protocol, my heart goes out to you. Websocket is a fantastic advance for the web. But the protocol, in particular the handshake is truly awful. It's awful in that it defines silly useless hoops you have to jump through, and it's awful because in the real world, it sometimes breaks with http proxies etc. My post about the new version: http://axod.blogspot.com/201…
Comment linking /2010/06/websocket-gets-update-and-it-breaks.html
on “TIMTOW to build a WebSocket server in Perl”Submitted The benefits of using Google Closure as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThis blog posts seems to prove the opposite: Safari users are most likely to spend: http://axod.blogspot.com/2009/06/revenue-browser.html
Comment linking /2009/06/revenue-browser.html
on “Are Microsoft Users More Gullible When It Comes To Online Advertising?”http://axod.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-closure-compiler-adv... In my tests, it's extremely good. It requires some effort to get things working with the advanced mode, but it's worth it to make things load quicker. Certainly far better than YUI.
Comment linking /2010/01/google-closure-compiler-advanced-mode.html
on “Better JavaScript Minification”
