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Grant Winney
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Grant Winney's personal blog at grantwinney.com covers programming and web. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors on my desktop?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts as related reading on Notepad++ code quotes, GitHub Markdown tricks such as collapsible sections, and browser sensor access and fingerprinting. The comments only point to the posts.
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.
A dev with questions... and answers too.
Most-linked posts?
- Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors on my desktop?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-31
What Hacker News says?
Also related: https://grantwinney.com/the-nsfw-quotes-of-notepad-plus-plus...
Comment linking /the-nsfw-quotes-of-notepad-plus-plus/
on “CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code”Submitted Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors on my desktop? as a story · 20 points
HN discussionIf you search around, there is a handful of specific GitHub markdown tricks that (for some reason) they don't officially document on their own help docs. Here is a few I found quickly searching: - https://github.com/mxstbr/github-markdown-tricks - https://github.com/shaunlebron/github-markdown-hacks - https://grantwinney.com/cool-markdown-tricks-for-github/ - https://ourcodeworld.com/articles/read/162/tips-and-trick…
Comment linking /cool-markdown-tricks-for-github/
on “GitHub Collapsible Markdown”Submitted WebView2, a browser for WinForms in .NET 5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://grantwinney.com/websites-requesting-access-to-motion... Perhaps this link will help. It looks like websites can request if your browser has access to things like a Gyroscope or Magnetometer, and by default Chrome will block access without your consent. It could be some sort of fingerprinting technique.
Comment linking /websites-requesting-access-to-motion-sensors/
on “Who do I trust and why? Digital Ocean, Google Chrome and Motion Sensors”Submitted Do your future self a favor, don't future-proof your code as a story · 1 points
HN discussion