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Clint Berry

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Clint Berry's personal blog at clintberry.com covers programming and startups. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “HTML5 Apps on the Desktop in 2013”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
7HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Clint Berry's posts on SMS short code pricing and Plivo versus Twilio, and on wildcard subdomains for local *.dev development on OS X. Commenters cite them as sources and suggestions, without judging them.

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. HTML5 Apps on the Desktop in 2013
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-25
  2. Why Plivo Cloud is better than Twilio
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. 1.tl;dr For short codes, our pricing is better. Tech-wise, honestly SMS short codes do not have much room for any difference. 2. long versions (if you're curious, in general, why someone would choose plivo over others) http://vincedasta.com/p/why-i-went-with-plivo/ http://clintberry.com/2012/why-plivo-cloud-is-better-than-tw... happy to answer follow-up questions.

    Comment linking /2012/why-plivo-cloud-is-better-than-twilio/

    on “SMS Short codes – Broadcast your message in bulk”
  2. Submitted Why Plivo Cloud is better than Twilio as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  3. I've been looking into this too. There is the Chromium Embedded Framework (on which atom-shell is based, and brackets-shell too for that matter), and a few others. https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/ Huh, apparently CEF is used in: Spotify, Evernote, Rdio, Github for Windows, Google Web Designer, and Macaw. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework#App... This article is a bit outdated but giv…

    Comment linking /2013/html5-apps-desktop-2013/

    on “Show HN: Starter project for creating Desktop apps with Atom Shell”
  4. Submitted Why Plivo is a game changer as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. What DNS provider do you use? It could be that you set up some sort-of DNS modification such as http://clintberry.com/2011/wildcard-sub-domains-on-osx-web-d...

    Comment linking /2011/wildcard-sub-domains-on-osx-web-development-on-localhost/

    on “Why all *.dev domains target to my localhost?”
  6. Submitted Modular AngularJS App Design (2013) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted HTML5 Apps on the Desktop in 2013 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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