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Daniel Imms
Personal blog · growingwiththeweb.comprogrammingweb
Daniel Imms writes Growing with the Web, a personal blog at growingwiththeweb.com about programming and web. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Daniel Imms's blog covers web development and algorithms, including a pathfinding algorithm and fullscreen mobile modal design. Comments link it alongside pathfinding visualisations and discuss mobile page reflow.
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A blog on software and web development by Daniel Imms
What Hacker News says?
Neat! Unrelated: Here are some cool visualizations and simulations for pathfinding we have used in the past for trade shows and mall wayfinding. https://qiao.github.io/PathFinding.js/visual/ https://clementmihailescu.github.io/Pathfinding-Visualizer/ https://www.growingwiththeweb.com/projects/pathfinding-visua... https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/78of3s/pat...
Comment linking /projects/pathfinding-visualiser/
on “New pathfinding algorithm”Submitted How to fix nvm slowing down terminal initialisation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOn the smaller screens - I take the lack of reflowing as good design. I wouldn't want to the site to reflow when all I was trying to do was bump up the font size to read something easier as it would make it impossible to tell where on the site I am. Horizontally panning on a phone isn't nearly as annoying as it is on desktop - and the difficulty of horizontal scrolling is why page reflow is a good thing for desktop:…
Comment linking /2013/01/let-me-pinch-to-zoom-your-responsive.html
on “Fullscreen mobile modal: how hard can it be?”Submitted AVL tree as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Async vs. defer attributes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Mastering Visual Studio Code's Terminal as a story · 1 points
HN discussion