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David Hamp-Gonsalves
Personal blog · davidhampgonsalves.com · on HN as dh-gprogrammingwriting
David Hamp-Gonsalves's personal blog at davidhampgonsalves.com covers programming and writing. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Solar Powered Conways Game of Life”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a Spritz-style RSVP reader bookmarklet, a tool for reading text one word at a time. The only comment is a bare link, with no judgment of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bookmarklet/2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-03-05
- Solar Powered Conways Game of Life2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-27
- Keeping Foxish alive for 13 years2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-23
- Junk Drawer Phone as a Music Streaming Server2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-28
What Hacker News says?
I made a small solar powered CGOL( https://davidhampgonsalves.com/solar-powered-conways-game-of... ) that has a low pixel count. After 100 frames it randomly generates a new starting point b/c I didn't implement loop detection. Are their any algorithms or techniques for generating interesting starting states?
Comment linking /solar-powered-conways-game-of-life/
on “AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life”Submitted Cracking Litter Box DRM as a story · 121 points
HN discussionI made one with those features(except that pause doesn't jump to that word) http://www.davidhampgonsalves.com/spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bo...
Comment linking /spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bookmarklet/
on “Zethos – Speed reading tool in 1 kb”Submitted Barcode APIs as a story · 46 points
HN discussionI made one too that has key bindings as well: http://www.davidhampgonsalves.com/spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bo...
Comment linking /spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bookmarklet/
on “Zethos – Speed reading tool in 1 kb”Submitted GitHub is your resume so keep your resume in GitHub as a story · 34 points
HN discussionMade the same thing yesterday: http://www.davidhampgonsalves.com/spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bo... HN will probably see a lot of these in the next few days. Edit: Some users requested keybindings and I found them useful(pause, skip, rewind, etc).
Comment linking /spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bookmarklet/
on “Show HN: A Speed Reading Bookmarklet”Submitted Junk Drawer Phone as a Music Streaming Server as a story · 14 points
HN discussionclickable link: http://www.davidhampgonsalves.com/spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bo...
Comment linking /spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bookmarklet/
on “Show HN: Spritz like bookmarklet”Submitted The Best Study Resources for Technical Interviews I've found as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI have a music server(Navidrone) running on a similar setup ( https://davidhampgonsalves.com/junk-drawer-phone-as-a-music-... ) but preventing Termux from being killed is a persistent issue. PostmarketOS seems like the best option but its device support is quite limited.
Comment linking /junk-drawer-phone-as-a-music-streaming-server/
on “This Blog is hosted on my Android phone”Submitted SVG Based Vector Scope as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Longterm Cost of Personal Projects as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solar Powered Pendulum as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make a life dashboard with an old Kindle (KT 4) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building IOS Phonegap apps without a Mac as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DIY Photobooth as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neon Vector Animation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keeping Foxish alive for 13 years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 13 Years of Foxish as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solar Powered Conways Game of Life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surviving the Night in Conways Game of Life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A New Value Add for Being the Best as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Awesome Free Hosting Stacks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSON Compression Techniques as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Online Ads to Generate Bitcoins as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Phonegap and a million web framework choices as a story · 1 points
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