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broken digits is a personal blog at brokendigits.com about programming and culture. Since 2007, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Cappuccino’s FlickrDemo in 45 lines of jQuery”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2007–2008first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post reimplementing Cappuccino's Flickr demo using jQuery. The commenter uses it to argue that the Cappuccino demo is just JavaScript.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Cappuccino’s FlickrDemo in 45 lines of jQuery
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-09-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. This is just JavaScript, you know. Here's the Flickr demo shown on the Cappuccino site reimplemented using jQuery, with improvements to boot: http://www.brokendigits.com/2008/09/05/cappucinos-flickrdemo...

    Comment linking /2008/09/05/cappucinos-flickrdemo-in-45-lines-of-jquery/

    on “Cappuccino 0.6 Released”
  2. Submitted Cappuccino’s FlickrDemo in 45 lines of jQuery as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted It's Fun to Play With Stuff (or Why I'm Glad I Switched to the Mac) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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