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Divya Manian

Personal blog · nimbupani.com/blog · on HN as nimbupaniwebdesignprogramming

Divya Manian's personal blog at nimbupani.com covers web, design and programming. Since 2007, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “CSS Vocabulary”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.

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24mentions?
11HN people?
2007–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for front-end web posts, including a resource page on HTML5 and an article on taking control of CSS cascade. HN readers mostly cite these as relevant background.

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.

About Divya Manian

The author on HN?

nimbupani · 90 karma · member since 2008

http://nimbupani.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. CSS Vocabulary
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. relevant - http://nimbupani.com/html5please.html

    Comment linking /html5please.html

    on “Html5please”
  2. Submitted The Long Road from XHTML to HTML as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  3. I'm not sure how much I agree with this approach. When you do what this article is describing, you are creating a very tight coupling of your css structure to your dom hierarchy. This can create a lot of issues when you are trying to refactor your code or getting new people on-boarded to the project. These rules can get very confusing when someone tries to edit your HTML by adding classes to a new element they creat…

    Comment linking /notes-from-html5-readiness-hacking.html

    on “CSS: Taking control of the cascade”
  4. Submitted Kindle: The Power Reading Device as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  5. I can recommend http://nimbupani.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Who did you get to do the website layout?”
  6. Submitted Font in your face as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  7. I use Octopress for my blog http://nimbupani.com which uses Jekyll with a bunch of useful plugins and rake files. My notes on porting from Drupal are here http://nimbupani.com/redesign-notes.html

    Comment linking /redesign-notes.html

    on “Ask HN: Who is using Jekyll? (+feedback)”
  8. Submitted CSS Vocabulary as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted 19 tips for designing accessible websites as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted CSS Vocabulary as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted CSS Object Model Explained as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Safe CSS defaults as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted This revolution needs new revolutionaries as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Bokeh with CSS3 Gradients as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted It is not the User's Fault as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted What Web Designers need to know about EPUB as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted A Bit of SVG and Canvas as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The Truth About Doctypes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Opera Features that will get anyone hooked as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Diversity in Conferences as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Using decimal percentage values in responsive design as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Newer Features of CSS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted How open source is bringing back the hippie culture as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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