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Elliot Jay Stocks
Personal blog · elliotjaystocks.com/blogdesignwriting
Elliot Jay Stocks's personal blog at elliotjaystocks.com covers design and writing. Since 2007, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Good riddance, PayPal”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and author, usually doing something with typography
Most-linked posts?
- Good riddance, PayPal3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-09-06
What Hacker News says?
( http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/pirated/ ) Mentions this screenshot: ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/elliotjaystocks/516412232/ ) See also the (now dead, unfortunately) pirated sites. ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/piratedsites/ ) ( http://www.pirated-sites.com/ )
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on “Codename: Obtvse”Submitted Good riddance, PayPal as a story · 713 points
HN discussionI’ve felt the same way since way back then ever since reading about this guy’s setup[0], so I paired a 11” MBA with the quad core Mac Mini 2012. I’ve kept that philosophy over the years, the MBA was replaced by the 2017 12” retina MacBook and then again with the 13” M2 MBA. The Mini gave way to the 2018 Mini, then a M1 Max Studio. I even attempted replacing the MacBook with an iPad though that didn’t really workout.…
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on “New iMac with M6”Submitted Adobe Muse: a step in the wrong direction as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThanks for sharing. For nearly 10 years I managed and engineered a large e-commerce site. I learned a ton in the process. These posts always hurt. I feel the pain. Also, reminds me of this post a while back - http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/good-riddance-paypal/ "PayPal have all the power of a bank and yet none of the responsibility."
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on “Screwed by Square”Submitted Adobe's Digital Publishing mistake as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI have a similar philosophy, inspired by Elliot J. Stocks [0] I want the beefiest small computer for out of office use while at the same time the beefiest computer for in office use. So for the past decade, I've been using the 11" MBA -> 12" rMB for my mobile computer, while my office machines have been the 2012 Mac Mini -> 2018 Mac Mini -> Mac Studio Max. The rMB has definitely been getting long in the tooth and I'…
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on “When will Apple ship other M2 Macs?”Submitted The Search for a Spotify Alternative as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://money.cnn.com/2013/01/21/technology/paypal-frozen-fun... http://conferencesburnedbypaypal.tumblr.com/ http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/good-riddance-paypal/ http://open-source-scotland.com/2012/news/oss2012-is-hereby-... http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/2013/01/paypal-guilty-until-prov... http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103385-PayPal-Free...
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on “Let people pay you. Make it easy”Submitted A better Photoshop grid for responsive web design as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> even Internet Explorer used Knuth-Plass to justify text I haven’t heard of this before, and I don’t believe it’s at all correct. Searching, I’m finding only https://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/justification-hyphenation/ to be relevant: “Internet Explorer, which seems to use the Knuth / Plass algorithm, or an approximation of it, enabled through the text-justify: newspaper CSS property.” `text-transform: newspaper` is…
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on “Knuth and Plass line-breaking Revisited”Submitted The typography-out approach in the world of browser-based web design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI dunno, these designs feel very "2001 ad agency microsite" to me. Nothing post-web-2.0 about them, more like pre-web-2.0. This is what happened when you take your best print designers and set them loose on the web. How do you suppose those sites render once you much with text size? Usability/web standards did not suddenly go out of vogue, did they? Ooo, the original presentation has much more actual content: http:/…
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on “How to Destroy the Web 2.0 Look.”Submitted The correct way to set font-weight for web fonts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free HTML / CSS for type & palette proposals as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How can we stop the design thieves? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working for half a day to be more productive as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hello, I'm a Human Being as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The cloud-centric Mac set-up: 8 months on as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web designers that can't do markup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write off the first hour of work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build your profile to get more freelance work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MacBook What? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Apple-Google shift as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive web design: the war has not yet been won » Blog » Elliot Jay Stocks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Has adaptive design failed? Of course it bloody hasn’t. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choose your web fonts wisely as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter is 5 things as a story · 1 points
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