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Frédéric Wang

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Frédéric Wang's personal blog at frederic-wang.fr covers web and programming. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2016–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Frédéric Wang's posts on AMP and his Igalia work on WebKit scrolling fixes, plus an interactive demo of LU and QR-like decomposition of 2D transform matrices. Commenters cite them as sources.

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. /amp-and-igalia-working-together-to-improve-the-web-platform.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. The tapping top of screen hasn't been fixed, as it likely is hard to do. As for other work on scrolling: Person contracted to fix some webkit issues: http://frederic-wang.fr/amp-and-igalia-working-together-to-i... HN discussion made some news about scrolling changes made due to AMP's bug reports: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/22/scrolling-changes-comin...

    Comment linking /amp-and-igalia-working-together-to-improve-the-web-platform.html

    on “AMP for email is a terrible idea”
  2. Submitted Igalia's open prioritization experiment for contributing to browsers as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  3. interactive demo of LU-like and QR-like decomposition of affine matrices: http://frederic-wang.fr/decomposition-of-2d-transform-matric... i mostly copy-pasted the js code from this page as a contribution to this lib back in the day: https://github.com/epistemex/transformation-matrix-js

    Comment linking /decomposition-of-2d-transform-matrices.html

    on “LU Factorization and Linear Systems for Programers”
  4. Submitted MathML in Chrome 109 – Frédéric Wang as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. The premise Google is responsible for the issues he mentions is demonstrably false. AMP's foundational tenents don't include Google Search is the one and only search engine. Bing and Microsoft's apps have been using AMP publicly for 1.5 years, with Google's help and support during development. The comments after are Apple bugs, not issues with Google or AMP. To wit, the AMP foundation hired an open source consultanc…

    Comment linking /amp-and-igalia-working-together-to-improve-the-web-platform.html

    on “Google Announces Plan to Improve URLs for AMP Pages, but AMP Will Still Suck”
  6. Submitted Update on OpenType Math Fonts as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted MathZilla collection ported to WebExtensions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted MathML Improvements in WebKit as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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