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David Humphrey
Personal blog · blog.humphd.orgprogrammingweb
David Humphrey writes Bread & Circuits, a personal blog at blog.humphd.org about programming and web. Since 2014, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Introducing a New Thimble and Bramble”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link David Humphrey's blog to explain the technology behind Mozilla's Thimble browser code editor, which is built on Adobe's Brackets. One comment also points to his Chatcraft.org post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The blog of David Humphrey
Most-linked posts?
- Introducing a New Thimble and Bramble5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-08-31
- CheatGPT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-20
What Hacker News says?
I don't know how up to date it is, but it looks like there is more about the technology at [1]. [1] http://blog.humphd.org/thimble-and-bramble/
Comment linking /thimble-and-bramble/
on “Mozilla Thimble”Submitted MakeDrive: Filesystem for the web as a story · 79 points
HN discussionI've been using it while they were gearing up to MVP and I can dispel some of those: 1) there is none. It's about as fast as PostMessage can pump data into an iframe, so it's _much_ faster than something like live-server, and because it watches file changes faster than something like webpack, it even seems a touch faster than webpack-hotreload (although their MVP can't do hotswapping of individual files yet) 2) fair…
Comment linking /thimble-and-bramble
on “Thimble – An online code editor”Submitted CheatGPT as a story · 39 points
HN discussionThat's great, but as someone who writes a whole bunch of PoC code and demonstrator articles, this is literally the thing I've been waiting all these years for. I don't need "tooling" beyond a good editor with dynamic extensions, which this is: it's just Adobe's "Brackets" code editor, made to run in the browser, with an automatic live server so I can immediately see what's happening instead of having a text editor,…
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on “Thimble – An online code editor”Submitted Introducing a New Thimble and Bramble as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://blog.humphd.org/thimble-and-bramble/ explains the tech behind all of it - it's literally just the Brackets editor, so virtually all shortcuts from Brackets will work in Thimble.
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on “Thimble – An online code editor”Submitted A Week with ChatGPT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis post helps explain the why and how of thimble really well. Recommended read! http://blog.humphd.org/thimble-and-bramble/
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on “Thimble – An online code editor”Submitted What Happens when you Contribute, revisited as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMaybe have a look at this Mozilla stuff? http://blog.humphd.org/thimble-and-bramble/
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on “Ask HN: Is there a reasonable, actually integrated Web IDE out there?”Submitted Edge Cases as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm glad I am not the only one who thought this was complete and total BS. I agree with other commenters that this post is designed to create hype and acquire more funding. Many people have argued (successfully imo) that AGI is not even possible[1]. LLMs are not even trending in the direction of AGI. They are trending in the direction of annoying spam[2] and making our jobs harder[3]. A brave new world where anyone…
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on “Planning for AGI and Beyond”Submitted When the music's over, turn out the lights as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's the post from David Humphrey | who all so worked on the website. https://blog.humphd.org/chatcraft-org/
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on “Chatcraft.org: Developer-Focused Open Source ChatGPT”Submitted HTTP Testing with Hurl in Node.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTTP Testing with Hurl in Node.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teaching Open Source: Sept 2018 – April 2019 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Technology of Nostalgia as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Technology of Nostalgia as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Processing.js 2008-2018 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Messing with MessageChannel as a story · 1 points
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