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David DeSandro
Personal blog · dropshado.wsprogrammingweb
David DeSandro writes Tumblr, a personal blog at dropshado.ws about programming and web. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David DeSandro's site for posts on CSS drop shadows and a golden-ratio web typography article. The comments cite the posts for browser GPU acceleration and for how the typography piece should be read.
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.
Front-end development minutiæ. By David DeSandro
What Hacker News says?
I think browsers are moving to using the GPU: chrome: http://dropshado.ws/post/2857434171/chrome-gpu-accelerated-c... ie: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/03/16/internet-explor... ff: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/09/firefox-4-beta-5-brings-g...
Comment linking /post/2857434171/chrome-gpu-accelerated-compositing-and-3d-css
on “Brilliant use of CSS drop shadows”Submitted TextMate commands written in node.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEveryone seems to be taking this article as gospel, but that is not the intent at all. It is an exploration into the idea of basing typographical proportions on the golden ratio; it is NOT saying that the results are the only (or even the best!) way to set type. Personally, I found the results to be compelling—paragraphs set with the Golden Ratio Typography Calculator look good to my eye (and in fact, trying to unde…
Comment linking /post/12971305087/webkit-zoomed-out-font-size-threshold
on “Golden Ratio for Readable Web Typography”Submitted Slicing arguments (in JavaScript) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion