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Four Kitchens
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Four Kitchens is the company blog at fourkitchens.com, writing about web and design. Since 2009, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Four Kitchens posts on Drupal scaling (Pressflow, Varnish) and front-end performance, including a note on background-attachment scroll CPU cost and the 'one less jpg' point about JS size.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /pressflow-makes-drupal-scale2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-25
What Hacker News says?
Off topic: Using `background-attachment: fixed` for your background image will cause high CPU usage as the user scrolls. http://fourkitchens.com/blog/article/fix-scrolling-performan...
Comment linking /blog/article/fix-scrolling-performance-css-will-change-property
on “Dwarf Fortress Development”Submitted Emulsify Design System: What’s Great, What’s Coming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMost likely Varnish, which is made possible by the Pressflow Drupal distro, which among other things, cleans up the http header problems in Drupal 6: http://fourkitchens.com/pressflow-makes-drupal-scale Much of Pressflow's codebase was backported from Drupal 7, so its advantages will be available to all Drupal sites after the stable release of version 7 sometime early next year.
Comment linking /pressflow-makes-drupal-scale
on “Whitehouse.gov now powered by Drupal”Submitted Content Management Systems: A Quick Review as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"The solution to worrying about JS lib/framework size: include one less .jpg on your site." - https://twitter.com/paul_irish/status/227203681462927361 also, https://twitter.com/trek/status/227082154109186049 and http://fourkitchens.com/blog/2013/04/24/one-less-jpg/
Comment linking /blog/2013/04/24/one-less-jpg/
on “Should I Pick jQuery?”Submitted One less JPG as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI agree, Drupal would be faster development wise for a review website. Make sure you check out Pressflow http://fourkitchens.com/pressflow-makes-drupal-scale so you can scale easier down the line
Comment linking /pressflow-makes-drupal-scale
on “Building my web startup in Drupal vs. Rails?”Submitted Node.js and Drupal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster, more effective design and development with the Emulsify UI kit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four Kitchens closes down office, goes fully remote as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Giving schema back its good name as a story · 1 points
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