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fusionbox.com is the company blog at fusionbox.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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16mentions?
8HN people?
2011–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Fusionbox's blog for a summary of PyCon 2015 talks, an article on materialized views in Rails, and a project that seeds a random number generator with mouse movements, inspired by XKCD 936.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. /mouseware/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. Fusionbox | Denver, CO | REMOTE | Senior software engineer Fusionbox is a software engineering agency. Some notes about us: - We solve different types of problems every day - We think software design and system architecture are important - We embrace collaboration and education - We legally reserve the right to release all code we write to the Open Source community - We maintain several open source libraries and all…

    Comment linking /careers/django-engineer/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)”
  2. Submitted Problems with Computer Science Education as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  3. tdicola · 2015-08-07Recommends
    I recently saw a good summary of PyCon 2015 talks that included this and a lot of other top notch ones: https://www.fusionbox.com/blog/detail/pycon-2015-talks-you-s...

    Comment linking /blog/detail/pycon-2015-talks-you-should-watch/549/

    on “Beyond PEP 8 – Best practices for beautiful intelligible code [video]”
  4. Submitted React and Interactive SVGs as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. You can use https://www.fusionbox.com/mouseware/ to do this

    Comment linking /mouseware/

    on “A plastic card for easy to remember strong passwords”
  6. Submitted Django-authtools: A Custom User Model App for Everyone as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Here is an old article that I used to implement my own https://www.fusionbox.com/blog/detail/using-materialized-vie...

    Comment linking /blog/detail/using-materialized-views-to-implement-efficient-reports-in-django/643/

    on “Effectively Using Materialized Views in Ruby on Rails”
  8. Submitted Show HN: Mouseware, cryptographically secure HTML5 memorable password generator as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. https://www.fusionbox.com/mouseware/ we wrote this one at my company. It uses your mouse movements as a seed for the random number generator.

    Comment linking /mouseware/

    on “Late Meditations on XKCD 936”
  10. Submitted Create React App and Django as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. I wrote a tool for this, mouseware: http://www.fusionbox.com/mouseware/ It generates a memorable password using entropy from your mouse movements to seed a CSPRNG. It is completely in-browser, no data is ever sent to the server. Source available here: https://github.com/fusionbox/mouseware/

    Comment linking /mouseware/

    on “Creating memorable and secure passwords”
  12. Submitted Novel Uses of Foreign-Key Constraints as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted How (and Why) to Write Progressively Enhanced Idempotent JavaScript as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Using Django-Importcsvadmin to Streamline Excel Imports as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Git: A Story – a comic on how commands are relatable to life as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted The User Profile Pattern in Django 1.5 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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