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Doug Sillars
Personal blog · dougsillars.comwebsystems
Doug Sillars's personal blog at dougsillars.com covers web and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment appears, on a Show HN thread about GIFs, arguing that short videos are better shared as video than GIF because of file size and playback. It does not discuss this blog's 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.
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What Hacker News says?
If you have a short video to share, don't share them in GIF format, let them be videos instead. GIFs are a huge burden to digital devices because they have to contain every frame and every piece of information to themselves where on the other hand, videos are usually compressed and every digital device have the algorithm (Open H264 video coded usually) to extract the compressed file and play the video by default, wh…
Comment linking /2017/04/12/animated-gifs-vs-video-files/
on “Show HN: Create GIFs from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter most sites that have videos”Submitted What happens when you minimize the browser on your phone? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mobile Warning for Large Websites as a story · 2 points
HN discussion