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Back Alley Coder
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Back Alley Coder is a personal blog at backalleycoder.com about programming, web and security. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “I want a DAMNodeInserted event”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Back Alley Coder for its write-ups on detecting new DOM nodes, including how SentinelJS works, the motivation behind it, and why mutation events are unsuitable for the task.
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.
Code, distributed systems, and the web.
Most-linked posts?
- I want a DAMNodeInserted event4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-04-26
- CSS Selector Listeners - a new DOM event mechanism3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-08-06
What Hacker News says?
Detailed write up of how it is implemented, and why mutation events are not suitable: http://www.backalleycoder.com/2012/04/25/i-want-a-damnodeins...
Comment linking /2012/04/25/i-want-a-damnodeinserted/
on “Show HN: SentinelJS – Detect new DOM nodes using CSS selectors”Submitted Single-page app routing hack for GitHub Pages as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThere is some discussion about the motivation here: http://www.backalleycoder.com/2012/04/25/i-want-a-damnodeins...
Comment linking /2012/04/25/i-want-a-damnodeinserted/
on “Show HN: SentinelJS – Detect new DOM nodes using CSS selectors”Submitted The Web Beyond: How blockchain identity will transform our world as a story · 9 points
HN discussionJust one little citation of the original article that demonstrated this hack would be nice. The guy references David Walsh's blog (a friend of mine), who even in the article cites and attributes the method, yet doesn't include it in here? Just a tad lame, that's all: http://www.backalleycoder.com/2012/04/25/i-want-a-damnodeins...
Comment linking /2012/04/25/i-want-a-damnodeinserted/
on “How to detect DOM changes in CSS”Submitted Element Queries, From the Feet Up as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHey whatdayaknow, the method I created! Here's a follow-up I published a while back that provides an generic listener method using the technique: http://www.backalleycoder.com/2012/08/06/css-selector-listen...
Comment linking /2012/08/06/css-selector-listeners/
on “How to detect DOM changes in CSS”Submitted CSS Selector Listeners - a new DOM event mechanism as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI addressed this in the post - neither is available across all major browsers: https://backalleycoder.com/posts/passseeds-an-experiment-in-... Ironically, you could make a pollyfill for the PRF functionality with this.
Comment linking /posts/passseeds-an-experiment-in-hijacking-passkeys-to-unlock-cryptographic-use-cases/
on “PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases”Submitted An app to app interaction API for the web as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future Is AI's Proof of Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Nickelback Persistence Conjecture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS Selector Listeners as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demythstifying Web Components as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Decentralized Apps and Services via Blockchain-Based Identity Indirection as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I want a DAMNodeInserted event as a story · 1 points
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