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Craig Hickman
Personal blog · red-green-blue.comhistorydesign
Craig Hickman writes Dry reading, a personal blog at red-green-blue.com about history and design. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The Origin Story of Kid Pix”. The last post was in 2016, 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 Craig Hickman's posts on the history of Kid Pix, the children's paint program, including its design for very young users and the motivations behind it.
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.
Craig Hickman's photographs programming and physical computing projects.
Most-linked posts?
- The Origin Story of Kid Pix9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2021-08-06
- Kid Pix – The Early Years3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-10-28
What Hacker News says?
You might enjoy this, then: http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years
Comment linking /kid-pix-the-early-years
on “KidPix”Submitted The Origin Story of Kid Pix as a story · 204 points
HN discussionSpent a good 10 minutes playing with Kid Pix, having not heard of it before. Turns out it has a fun history - it was designed to be usable by a 3-year-old: http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years/
Comment linking /kid-pix-the-early-years/
on “Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser”Submitted Kid Pix: The Early Years as a story · 12 points
HN discussionIt's funny you mention that — the author of Kid Pix wrote about the motivation around his app and he specifically calls that out as well: "I didn't want to use pull-down menus for this because, among other reasons, Ben had trouble with them. " [ http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years/ ] I tried to stick to and follow as many of the directives he has listed with Kiddo Paint.
Comment linking /kid-pix-the-early-years/
on “Show HN: Kiddo Paint”Submitted Kid Pix – The Early Years as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kid Pix – The Early Years as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kid Pix – The Early Years (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kid Pix: The Early Years as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kid Pix – The Early Years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kid Pix: The Early Years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kid Pix – The Early Years as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
