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Charlie Park
Personal blog · charliepark.org · on HN as charlieparkwebdesign
Charlie Park's personal blog at charliepark.org covers web and design. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers”. The last post was in 2015, 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 Charlie Park's posts on slopegraphs, a chart type, and on quick web design tweaks with linked tools and Bootstrap buttons. The comments only cite or bookmark the posts 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.
Charlie Park is a frontend engineer in Oakland, CA. He likes to get outside as much as he can.
Most-linked posts?
- Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-01
- Edward Tufte's "Slopegraphs"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-12
What Hacker News says?
Speaking of this, I built a tool using jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap itself that lets you customize the button's hue, saturation, lightness, and "puffiness". You can see it here: http://charliepark.org/bootstrap_buttons/ . Any discussion on it will hopefully be at the HN thread I just submitted ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3538053 ).
Comment linking /bootstrap_buttons/
on “Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter”Submitted Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers as a story · 431 points
HN discussionAnd the http://colorschemedesigner.com/ . Two links that may come handy one day isn't a bad return on an investment of 10 minutes of my time. I also bookmarked http://charliepark.org/bootstrap_buttons/ but I suspect i may never get around to using it.
Comment linking /bootstrap_buttons/
on “How to Make Your Site Look Half-Decent in Half an Hour”Submitted Edward Tufte's "Slopegraphs" as a story · 235 points
HN discussionI (informally) study procrastination and attention management, and maintain The Attention Management Blog ( http://attnmgmtblog.com ). That's not to say my advice will be better than anyone else's in this thread. But there are two really simple things I've found that have helped me maintain focus and momentum, especially when I'm feeling especially distracted. First, break your larger tasks into absurdly tiny steps.…
Comment linking /rightnow/
on “Ask HN: Those with intense focus, how do you do it?”Submitted The Middle Way, and Why Apple Will Reboot the MacBook as a story · 19 points
HN discussionCoincidentally the "Slopegraphs" article currently at the top of the front page has this graph http://charliepark.org/images/slopegraphs/natgeo.jpg which pegs 2007 spending at $7290 per person and shows that American health care is extremely expensive and inefficient. I only support the health care law because anything is better than the status quo, but by trying to find a compromise it will continue a lot of the cu…
Comment linking /images/slopegraphs/natgeo.jpg
on “In the US, people will need to pay $6400 per year for health insurance”Submitted HATCHSHOW.js - a jQuery typesetting plugin; like a multi-line fittext.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHey there. I'm in Williamsburg, and would be happy to connect and fill you in on what I know. I don't know much further down the peninsula (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, etc.), or the area around Suffolk et al., but I'd be happy to chat about what little is in the area. Where are you moving? It depends on what, exactly, you're looking for. There are a few Meetup groups in the area (Ruby, etc.) There aren't many startups,…
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on “Ask HN: any startups in southern Virginia”Submitted CSS-Only Sticky Headers for Tables, Using ‘position: sticky’ as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- bl · 2012-01-01
Mr. Park's original piece on slopegraphs: http://charliepark.org/slopegraphs/ Previous Hacker News discussion of Mr. Park's original piece: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2753343
Comment linking /slopegraphs/
on “A slopegraph update” Submitted CSS Bookmarks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fat Fingers (a regex for fixing typoed e-mail addresses) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion- bl · 2012-01-01
Submitted A slopegraph update as a story · 1 points
HN discussion Submitted Comparing the speed of Time.now versus Date.today as a story · 1 points
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