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Bobulate
Personal blog · bobulate.comdesignculture
Bobulate is a personal blog at bobulate.com about design and culture. Since 2009, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Liz Danzico's Bobulate is cited as an example of a time-zone-based night mode, a clean design, and a post on thank-you notes. Comments link it for these examples rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
for Intentional Organization
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-11-10
What Hacker News says?
Liz Danzico's Bobulate[0] has had a "night mode" for years, based on your local time-zone: [0]: http://bobulate.com/
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on “F.lux updated”Submitted Designing for Improvisation (2010) as a story · 20 points
HN discussionNormally the biggest thing people screw up is the colors. Use a color generator and then always pick colors from the theme. Two of my fav sites for this are http://colorschemedesigner.com/ and http://kuler.adobe.com/ The next step after color is Typography. You don't need to get into all the nitty gritty crap about it but choose some good fonts normally something very clean and simple is your best bet. ie Arial, Hel…
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on “Ask HN: improving your design skills?”Submitted The pancake paradox as a story · 8 points
HN discussionTypekit is an excellent service. It allows designers to accomplish some awesome clean looking designs. Example: http://bobulate.com/
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on “Typekit launches”Submitted Just Hope as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOriginal link: http://bobulate.com/post/205253518/on-thank-you-or-why-socra...
Comment linking /post/205253518/on-thank-you-or-why-socrates-was-wrong
on “On the Thank You note”Submitted Second Chance for a Last Impression (2007) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Askers and the Guessers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Toys will be Toys as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Status Sorters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing for Improvisation as a story · 1 points
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