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Benedict Eastaugh
Personal blog · extralogical.net/articlesprogramming
Benedict Eastaugh writes Extralogical: All articles, a personal blog at extralogical.net about programming. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “JavaScript animation library using CSS transforms and transitions”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Benedict Eastaugh's posts on CSS3 keyframe animations, running Ruby 1.9 with Passenger, and Markdown versus LaTeX, plus his Firmin CSS transitions plugin. The comments cite these as references and do not 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.
Most-linked posts?
- JavaScript animation library using CSS transforms and transitions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-11
- Experience Switching From Ruby 1.8 to Ruby 1.92 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-15
What Hacker News says?
While it's certainly true, at least in my experience, that Passenger is both easier to set up and demands fewer system resources than a Mongrel cluster, there's a third vital factor: Passenger works just fine with Ruby 1.9, whereas Mongrel doesn't. This, ultimately, was the reason I switched. Coincidentally, I ran up an article on shifting my server to Ruby 1.9 earlier today. It might be of interest to anyone consid…
Comment linking /2009/07/ruby-one-niner/
on “Modrails outperforms Mongrel”Submitted Practical functional programming in JavaScript as a story · 62 points
HN discussionSee also: the Firmin plugin, which abstracts away CSS transitions with clean Javascript APIs: http://extralogical.net/projects/firmin/ (Alas, it does not yet do automatic jQuery fallback.) Though I love jQuery.animate(), it just can't match the GPU-rendering speed on CSS3 transitions and animations. If you can afford the development time, it's absolutely worth it.
Comment linking /projects/firmin/
on “An Introduction To CSS3 Keyframe Animations ”Submitted Firmin, a JavaScript animation library using CSS transforms and transitions as a story · 43 points
HN discussionLaTeX is great when you need it (i.e. to write mathematics, draw clever diagrams, or need a Turing-complete programming language in your markup language), but when you don't, it's unnecessarily cumbersome, and Markdown is a lot better. Both have a settled spot in my toolbox, but it's not the same spot. If you use Pandoc to generate e.g. HTML documents from your Markdown files, it's also worth remembering that TeX ma…
Comment linking /articles/arithmetic-godel-system-t.html
on “Markdown is the new Word 5.1”Submitted Experience Switching From Ruby 1.8 to Ruby 1.9 as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript animation library using CSS transforms and transitions as a story · 5 points
HN discussion