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Edwin Martin
Personal blog · bitstorm.org/weblog · on HN as edwinjmwebprogramming
Edwin Martin's personal blog at bitstorm.org covers web and programming. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “John Conway’s Game of Life”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Edwin Martin's bitstorm.org pages: an interactive Conway's Game of Life simulation and a jQuery colour-animation demo. Comments mostly cite or bookmark them rather than judge them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Edwin Martin about frontend webdevelopment
Most-linked posts?
- /gameoflife/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-02-17
- John Conway’s Game of Life2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-14
What Hacker News says?
Ha, my daughter asked the same question, so I tried explaining all 4 rules, but she didn't seem to be very impressed. So I quickly googled, found this http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/ among the top result, and we went through all 4 rules, experimenting. That was a lot more interesting, especially when she found out about the 'objects'... :) So the page is bookmarked now :)
Comment linking /gameoflife/
on “Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page”Submitted Are webdevelopers elitists? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAlso see Conway's Game of Life for an interactive system of complex emergent behaviors from very simple rules: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
Comment linking /gameoflife/
on “Langton's ant”Submitted John Conway’s Game of Life as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> It could just be me, but I prefer more control, and using the requests library gave me that I had the exact same opinion until a month back when I started using scrapy + scrapyd[1] for a serious scraping task. Yes, it's a long running spider which is why I decided to use Scrapy in the first place. But so far I have been really impressed with it in general and might consider it even for one-off crawling in future.…
Comment linking /gameoflife/lexicon/
on “Python web scraping”Submitted Push the web forward as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThat might be the case. This blog post [1] shows some examples of what the advance optimizations do and it seems that, while it'll shorten everithing up, things that are put in the global namespace (window) will not be stripped even when they aren't called. As jQuery adds the 'jQuery' and '$' variable to the global namespace and all it's functions are attached to that object, I would assume that the Closure compile…
Comment linking /weblog/2010-8/Introduction_to_the_Google_Closure_Compiler.html
on “Mobile development with HTML5”Submitted What I don't like about PHP as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI assume simpler thing is more probable. Additionaly - if you can design top-down and bottom-up at the same time - it means you already know what will happen. Why even do the simulation in that case? So, if we're living in a simulation - no reason to bring Gods and ultimate whatevers into this - much more probably we're just their equivalent of the Conway's game of life: https://bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
Comment linking /gameoflife/
on “Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012)”Submitted You are not a webdesigner as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI know that I am reading WAY to much into this but here are the rules: "For a space that is 'populated': Each cell with one or no neighbors dies, as if by loneliness. Each cell with four or more neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation. Each cell with two or three neighbors survives. For a space that is 'empty' or 'unpopulated' Each cell with three neighbors becomes populated." [1] The classic glider is the hacker ic…
Comment linking /gameoflife/
on “Laocoön”Submitted Miq, the micro jQuery like library as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHi all! Here is the latest Rust side project I’ve been working on for the past couple of weeks: Lifeee, an implementation of John Conway’s Game of Life. It was the opportunity for me to continue my Rust learning journey, and I think I’m finally starting to feel a bit comfortable with the language, especially ownership :). I also wanted to discover what was possible when using Rust for frontend development, and I mus…
Comment linking /gameoflife/lexicon/
on “Show HN: Lifeee – Conway’s Game of Life with an infinite zoomable grid”Submitted Drop support for IE8 and use these features as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAh! Thanks for saying. I can't figure out why, but the jquery.animate-colors.js scripts that I'm using are failing on my site, but work on the demo page at: http://www.bitstorm.org/jquery/color-animation/ Odd EDIT: Found it! Firefox couldnt handle the jquery transition from no background-color, to a color. It needed a background-color to be set first.
Comment linking /jquery/color-animation/
on “Nex2.co - A site I've made to let you share 2 web pages side by side.”
