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Daniel Davis

Personal blog · daniemon.com/blog · on HN as tagawawebprogramming

Daniel Davis writes Daniemon's Blog, a personal blog at daniemon.com about web and programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-04, and you can follow it by feed.

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2013–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for demos of underused HTML5 media features, mainly the video playbackRate demo. Commenters discuss the browser APIs and why YouTube pauses background playback.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Web tech, privacy stuff and geeky songs from Daniel Davis.

The author on HN?

tagawa · 5,505 karma · member since 2011

Daniel Davis. A geek in Japan with a ukulele. Now at DuckDuckGo. Formerly W3C, Opera Software. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ourmaninjapan.bsky.social Blog: https://blog.daniemon.com [ my public key: https://keybase.io/ourmaninjapan; my proof: https://keybase.io/ourmaninjapan/sigs/R2wzSyy19fAvnwG81OcCEZ5PM6-dH6nn3FYYbxVkJqA ]

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What Hacker News says?

  1. dm2 · 2014-05-31
    Those are really awesome features! HTML5 is really great with these features such as geolocation, media, localStorage, camera and the great mobile APIs like tapping into sensors, vibrate, even battery, all with very simple javascript. Haha, anything said at half-speed sounds hilarious. Go to 1:20 of the OPs demo ( http://daniemon.com/tech/html5/playbackRate/ ) and set the playback rate to 0.5, "It's like they're lik…

    Comment linking /tech/html5/playbackRate/

    on “My two favourite (underused) HTML5 media features”
  2. tagawa · 2014-05-31

    Submitted My two favourite (underused) HTML5 media features as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  3. smittywerben · 2019-10-14
    I haven't experienced this specifically on YouTube, but you may be talking about the Page Visibility API [0]. I've tried to disable it natively in Firefox and Chrome (without extensions) but with no avail. It can even tell if I switch desktops in i3wm. Here's two demos [1][2]. I'm guessing it's saving $$$ on bandwidth. I just want the option to turn it off. [0] https://www.w3.org/TR/page-visibility-2/ [1] http://dan…

    Comment linking /tech/webapps/page-visibility/

    on “Ask HN: Is YouTube using a dark pattern to prevent background playlist play?”
  4. tagawa · 2014-12-02

    Submitted Responsive is not just visual: 3 useful JavaScript APIs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. tagawa · 2013-05-08

    Submitted Twitter Bootstrap without jQuery as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. MatthiasP · 2014-06-20

    Submitted How the Japanese communicate as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. tagawa · 2013-09-11

    Submitted Blocking comment spam without captchas as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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