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Duncan Davidson
Personal blog · duncandavidson.comdesignwriting
Duncan Davidson's personal blog at duncandavidson.com covers design and writing. Since 2007, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this photography blog for its camera gear write-ups, such as the Sony RX1, and for a post on serving Retina images with Picturefill. Comments cite it without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal website of Duncan Davidson: a hub for writing, experiments, durable notes, and thinking about what a personal site can be in the age of AI.
Most-linked posts?
- /gear/sony/rx1/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-24
What Hacker News says?
Do you mean the RX1? http://duncandavidson.com/gear/sony/rx1/ I have one, and it's pretty impressive.
Comment linking /gear/sony/rx1/
on “The demise of the DSLR”Submitted WebKit Limit on Retina JPG Image Display as a story · 127 points
HN discussionJames Duncan Davidson - noted photographer and software developer - has played with image delivery for Retina quite a bit. He details much of it on his blog: http://duncandavidson.com/blog/2012/08/retina_ready Essentially he currently uses Picturefill ( https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill ). From Davidsons' blog: "It’s a compact bit of JavaScript which supports a syntax that mimics the Picture Element Proposal.…
Comment linking /blog/2012/08/retina_ready
on “"Proper" Image Delivery on the Web”Submitted A Hidden Genius at the Apple Store as a story · 120 points
HN discussionThese are quite beautiful, but they would be even more beautiful on retina screens if the images were 2x in dimensions. Example: http://duncandavidson.com/gear/sony/rx1/
Comment linking /gear/sony/rx1/
on “Photos of morning Moscow”Submitted A Postmodern Crime at TED2009 as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear Speakers: things that interfere with getting a message across to an audience as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should We Use Progressive JPEGs for Retina Displays? as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitstream Vera Sans Mono and Panic Sans: Excellent fonts for your Terminal as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Example of Photography on the Retina Display as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Made in the USA as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Google made Verizon ship unlocked iPhone 5s as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted So, What about Mac OS X Server? as a story · 2 points
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