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farukat.es is a personal blog at farukat.es about web and culture. Since 2009, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Pure CSS Icons: Make The Madness Stop ”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

36mentions?
21HN people?
2009–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Faruk Ateş's blog for his definition of a modern browser and his pure CSS icons post. The comments cite these posts as sources and do not directly judge 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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Pure CSS Icons: Make The Madness Stop
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-09
  2. How Flipboard Chose Form Over Function for Their Web Version
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-11
  3. Kathy Sierra On The Primer On Sexism Discussion
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. I guess it would be something along the lines of this quote from http://farukat.es/journal/2011/02/528-modern-browser : "A modern browser is any browser that: successfully renders a site that you just built using web standards, testing only in your browser of choice along the way, with all the essentials functioning well; without you having written any browser-specific hacks, forks or workarounds; and shows great pe…

    Comment linking /journal/2011/02/528-modern-browser

    on “Two.js”
  2. Submitted Kathy Sierra On The Primer On Sexism Discussion as a story · 91 points

    HN discussion
  3. http://farukat.es/journal/2011/05/586-snarky-truth-reasoned-... FACTS! STUDIES! Etc.

    Comment linking /journal/2011/05/586-snarky-truth-reasoned-explanation

    on “How I Deal with Sexual Discrimination in a Positive Way?”
  4. Submitted Opera Confirms WebKit Prefix Usage as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  5. Yeah, it's all just a few bad apples, there's no underlying problem. Just like all the other women with appalling experiences of sexism in the tech community. Seriously, if you can't see a fundamental problem, I seriously doubt you're looking very hard. http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cerian-jenkins/the-tech-indust... http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/CouchDB_talk…

    Comment linking /journal/2012/10/669-kathy-sierra-primer-sexism-discussion

    on “Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk”
  6. Submitted What's with the silence? as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  7. I just needed to unwind this weekend, so I developed a new jQuery plugin / stylesheet that creates emoticons on any webpage in pure CSS (using a bunch of CSS3 properties). The benefits of this approach are described in the post here. On a side note, I emailed Faruk Ateş (who wrote this post entitled "Pure CSS Icons: Make The Madness Stop" [1]) to see what he thought, and he said it was a pretty solid implementation.…

    Comment linking /journal/2010/08/469-pure-css-icons-make-madness-stop

    on “Show HN: My Weekend Fun Project - Pure-CSS Emoticons”
  8. Submitted Google, H.264 and Video on the Web as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Design Thinking vs. Data Thinking as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted But How Will They Make Money? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted A New Code of Character as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted The Experience Disparity, on FarukAt.eş as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted How Flipboard Chose Form Over Function for Their Web Version as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted How Flipboard Chose Form Over Function for Their Web Version as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Why are there so few good men programmers? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Apple And Its Questionable Decision With Maps as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Women in Tech & Design: the breakdown as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted IE8 and the X-UA-Compatible ruletree as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted A brief history of women in computing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Why Opera adopting WebKit as its browser engine is really good for the web as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted What Instagram did wrong as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted A Response To The Responses To My Sexism in Tech Primer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted When Selling Out is, In Fact, A Dirty Choice as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted The Threat Against the Web as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Native vs. Web Apps as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted The Addictive Allure of Instagram as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Dear Dave Winer: You Can’t Silence The Truth as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Why are there so few good men programmers? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted The Problem with a Slate of White, Male Speakers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted IPhone 5 is the Highest Grossing Movie of All Time as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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