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Brian Kardell

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Brian Kardell writes briankardell, a personal blog at briankardell.wordpress.com about web and programming. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “The DOM and Managing Complexity in API Evolution”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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21mentions?
6HN people?
2012–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2013

Betterifying the web

Most-linked posts?

  1. The DOM and Managing Complexity in API Evolution
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. bkardell · 2012-12-03
    A prollyfill is attached to a proposal/draft for new or improved native features and it provides a way of changing the evolutionary model of the Web... Let me use the popularity of selector engines as an example: Only after a giant swath of the community of developers decided that this was a useful thing and even extended a few selectors did it get real consideration as something that was needed natively - and at th…

    Comment linking /2012/11/17/w3c-extensible-web-community-group/

    on “Extending the web”
  2. bkardell · 2012-07-04

    Submitted Properties: The New Variables as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  3. clintjhill · 2013-07-15

    Submitted Once more unto the breach as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. bkardell · 2013-02-07

    Submitted This is hurting us all: It's time to stop as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. bkardell · 2012-12-07

    Submitted The New Gang of Four as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. devinhelton · 2016-05-06

    Submitted Prognostication and the failure of the Web as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. laacz · 2016-02-06

    Submitted A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe – Part I: The Pre-Web as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. bpierre · 2013-12-03

    Submitted The DOM and Managing Complexity in API Evolution as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. bkardell · 2013-04-23

    Submitted Off With Their Heads: Disband the W3C? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. bkardell · 2013-03-10

    Submitted CSS Logical Combinators for Set Selection: A proposal as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. ximi · 2013-03-05

    Submitted Regressive Disenfrancishement: Enhance, Fallback or Something else. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. bkardell · 2013-01-08

    Submitted Hours Remain: Help the Future of Web Standards as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. bkardell · 2015-02-03

    Submitted Friendly Fire: The Fog of DOM as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. bkardell · 2014-10-09

    Submitted What Would Bruce Lee Do: The Tao of the Extensible Web as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. bkardell · 2013-11-27

    Submitted The DOM and Managing Complexity in API Evolution as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. bkardell · 2013-10-09

    Submitted A Web Designed for the Next Century as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. bkardell · 2013-07-10

    Submitted Tagging in a New Partner (architecture of the Web) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. bkardell · 2013-05-31

    Submitted Election Closing - Reform the W3C Process as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. bkardell · 2013-01-24

    Submitted Dear W3C Technical Architecture Group as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. bkardell · 2012-08-24

    Submitted What do you call it? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. bkardell · 2012-05-12

    Submitted (Really) Classy CSS | Hitch Helps as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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