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Dougal Matthews

Personal blog · dougalmatthews.comprogrammingproductivity

Dougal Matthews's personal blog at dougalmatthews.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Static Websites with Flask”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9mentions?
6HN people?
2009–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link his 2008 article on detecting whether Caps Lock is on using JavaScript, cited as the method behind a login page's warning. Only one comment mentions it, as a source.

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?

  1. Static Websites with Flask
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. Am mobile so can't check if it still does, but Apple's me.com login page used to inform you if caps lock was on, using the method in the article linked to from sibling comment's StackOverflow link: http://dougalmatthews.com/articles/2008/jul/2/javascript-det...

    Comment linking /articles/2008/jul/2/javascript-detecting-caps-lock/

    on “FaceBook's login hack for people who leave CAPS LOCK on.”
  2. Submitted Static Websites with Flask as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Dougal Matthews: Retrace – Configurable, Elegant Retrying as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted My Vagrant Workflow - Dougal Matthews as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Static Websites with Flask as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Finding dead Python code with Vulture as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Create an Excellent Python Dev Env as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Automate publishing to PyPI with pbr and Travis as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Django - its just python as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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