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David Calhoun
Personal blog · davidbcalhoun.comwebprogramming
David Calhoun's personal blog at davidbcalhoun.com covers web and programming. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Android 3.0 Honeycomb is first to implement the HTML5 device api”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for practical web posts, such as when base64-encoding images makes sense and why the author dropped Disqus for comments. The comments cite these posts rather than praise them.
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.
Personal blog of photographer and web developer David Calhoun.
Most-linked posts?
- Android 3.0 Honeycomb is first to implement the HTML5 device api2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-24
What Hacker News says?
There are valid use cases. http://davidbcalhoun.com/2011/when-to-base64-encode-images-a...
Comment linking /2011/when-to-base64-encode-images-and-when-not-to/
on “I am a fast webpage”Submitted New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5 as a story · 74 points
HN discussionA few years back I noticed something similar and had to find an alternative, which I found in Commento, which is now unfortunately abandoned: https://www.davidbcalhoun.com/2020/ditching-disqus-migrating... I'm not sure it's worth the upkeep to have comments. Seems that mostly spammers comment, and rarely real people. I just wanted a low-maintenance commenting system and Commento seemed to work decently at the time.…
Comment linking /2020/ditching-disqus-migrating-away-since-it-has-become-a-monster/
on “I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse”Submitted PastryKit - iPhone’s UI JavaScript framework as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mobile Performance Manifesto as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted When to base64 encode images (and when not to) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing iPhone's slider unlock with input type="range" as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is AMD, CommonJS, and UMD? – David Calhoun's Blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web development / Silicon Valley rant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mobile Performance Manifesto as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Android 3.0 Honeycomb is first to implement the HTML5 device api as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When to Base64 Encode Images (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Android 3.0 Honeycomb is first to implement the Device API as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
