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Dave Perrett
Personal blog · daveperrett.com/articles · on HN as recurserwebprogrammingdesign
Dave Perrett's personal blog at daveperrett.com covers web, programming and design. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “EXIF orientation handling is a ghetto – Dave Perrett”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Dave Perrett's personal blog on web and image topics. HN commenters link his 2012 article on EXIF orientation to explain why images display rotated or upside down, and one calls it informative though dated.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- EXIF orientation handling is a ghetto – Dave Perrett3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-03-28
- Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-12
- Recreating the Reeder Two-tone Horizontal Rule in Pure CSS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-07
- EXIF Orientation Handling is a Ghetto2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-13
What Hacker News says?
Topic of image orientation always reminds me about this article: https://www.daveperrett.com/articles/2012/07/28/exif-orienta...
Comment linking /articles/2012/07/28/exif-orientation-handling-is-a-ghetto/
on “A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation”Submitted Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012) as a story · 51 points
HN discussionFor those interested in how EXIF is treated in other apps, a dated but informative article from 2012: https://www.daveperrett.com/articles/2012/07/28/exif-orienta...
Comment linking /articles/2012/07/28/exif-orientation-handling-is-a-ghetto/
on “A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation”Submitted Recreating the Reeder Two-tone Horizontal Rule in Pure CSS as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHey there, The problems are definitely a bit more advanced. I do try to make sure that any "vocab words" (data structures, algorithm types) can be clicked on for a deeper explanation. But if you haven't seen big-o before, for example, you'll be in the dark on a few things right now. I have some more "bottom-up" curriculum that I've developed from teaching at boot camps around San Francisco, and I'm still working on…
Comment linking /articles/2010/12/07/comp-sci-101-big-o-notation/
on “Show HN: Coding Interview Practice”Submitted EXIF orientation handling is a ghetto – Dave Perrett as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI was really amused to find out that writing ruby code on a Japanese keyboard layout is a bit more efficient, because some of the frequently used special characters like _, @, and : don't require a modifier key. https://www.daveperrett.com/articles/2012/05/16/underscores-...
Comment linking /articles/2012/05/16/underscores-are-stupid-get-a-japanese-keyboard/
on “Relearning to Type”Submitted EXIF Orientation Handling is a Ghetto as a story · 2 points
HN discussionheh, http://www.daveperrett.com/articles/2014/04/07/recreating-th... massage from the future?
Comment linking /articles/2014/04/07/recreating-the-reeder-two-tone-horizontal-rule-in-pure-css/
on “Recreating the Reeder Two-tone Horizontal Rule in Pure CSS”Submitted Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionit could be that the original jpg files had exif orientation data[1] that was lost/stripped in the conversion to webp [1]: http://www.daveperrett.com/articles/2012/07/28/exif-orientat...
Comment linking /articles/2012/07/28/exif-orientation-handling-is-a-ghetto/
on “Why do some WebP Images appear upside down?”