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Hay Kranen
Personal blog · haykranen.nl · on HN as huskyrprogrammingweb
Hay Kranen's personal blog at haykranen.nl covers programming and web. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “The ‘deaditors’ of Wikipedia”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Hay Kranen creates digital things. He combines in-depth technical (web) knowledge with a pragmatic approach and a creative angle. Designing, developing, tinkering and hacking on the thin line between art, data, technology and narrative. Get in touch: mail me at hay@haykranen.nl or send a message to
Most-linked posts?
- The ‘deaditors’ of Wikipedia4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-06-19
- What I learned from exhibiting Minecraft in a museum2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-22
- How software developers really spend their day2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-17
What Hacker News says?
Quoting myself from a blog post i wrote when i was learning Python two and a half years ago [1]: Let’s say i want to know how to do the Python equivalent of PHP’s foreach. The docs about the for statement say this: The for statement is used to iterate over the elements of a sequence (such as a string, tuple or list) or other iterable object: for_stmt ::= "for" target_list "in" expression_list ":" suite ["else" ":" s…
Comment linking /2014/02/12/saying-hello-to-python-some-observations/
on “This Is What Python Beginners Have to Deal With”Submitted The ‘deaditors’ of Wikipedia as a story · 17 points
HN discussion> I think content API (e.g. Prismic.io or Contentful) are good examples of what a better approach could be. I wrote about this in a blogpost a couple of months ago called 'the perfect CMS' [1]. I think Contentful is pretty spot-on in terms of features, but i would really love to see an open source project (like WordPress or Drupal) taking this same approach. [1]: http://www.haykranen.nl/2015/07/08/perfect-cms/
Comment linking /2015/07/08/perfect-cms/
on “Should we decouple Drupal with a client-side framework?”Submitted The ‘Deaditors’ of Wikipedia as a story · 11 points
HN discussionIf you're getting tired of all the useless UI when reading Google Plus posts too, i've written a smal Userscript to remove it: http://www.haykranen.nl/2012/09/16/a-simple-greasemonkey-use...
Comment linking /2012/09/16/a-simple-greasemonkey-userscript-to-remove-all-google-plus-ui/
on “Touch events on the mobile web are unfinished”Submitted The ‘Deaditors’ of Wikipedia as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A proposal for a perfect CMS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How software developers really spend their day as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stapes.js 0.6 released: a tiny Javascript MVC microframework, 1.6kb as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The ‘Deaditors’ of Wikipedia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Booking.com Travel Agency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How software developers really spend their day as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What i do after a fresh Mac OS X install as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Help a coder, even if you can’t code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned from exhibiting Minecraft in a museum as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned from exhibiting Minecraft in a museum as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saying hello to Python: observations from a newbie as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why every Wikimedian should be a toolmaker as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to know which Micro USB cables have data (and which ones can only charge) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted iOS 10 promises better video handling in Safari, but doesn’t deliver as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stapes.js 1.0.0 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tackling video and audio on the mobile web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linked Data and the Semantic Web: GLAM’s betting on the wrong horse? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To use closure functions as array values in a class in PHP 5.4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Javascript MVC tutorial: Create a todo app using Stapes.js in less than 100 LOC as a story · 1 points
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