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Icelab, an Australian design studio

Company blog · icelab.com.au/articlesprogrammingdesign

Icelab, an Australian design studio is the company blog at icelab.com.au, writing about programming and design. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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22mentions?
10HN people?
2010–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Blog of an Australian design studio. Linked posts cover technical topics: a cloud hosting timeout that broke credit card processing on Heroku, and how a museum touchscreen interactive was built with CSS transitions and HTML5.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

We love helping people build beautiful, working things.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /articles/money-stress-and-the-cloud/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Interesting reading that and after reading: http://icelab.com.au/articles/money-stress-and-the-cloud/ (tl;dr: Credit card processing was breaking because of the 30 second limit). Sounds like it would make sense for heroku to have a configurable timeout.

    Comment linking /articles/money-stress-and-the-cloud/

    on “Picplum Tech Stack - Backbone, Async Uploads, Prints API”
  2. Submitted Go Hard Early as a story · 101 points

    HN discussion
  3. Aside from the obvious benefits, even just streaming certain responses can be useful when your app lives on the Heroku cedar stack and you want to keep connections alive for longer than the default 30 seconds. I put this to use (albeit with an older Rails technique) for processing credit cards. Long description of it here: http://icelab.com.au/articles/money-stress-and-the-cloud/

    Comment linking /articles/money-stress-and-the-cloud/

    on “Forgotten Rails features: HTTP Streaming”
  4. Submitted Run Your Own Piece of Heroku with Foreman as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  5. This is the online version of a project I/we ( http://icelab.com.au ) made for the National Museum of Australia. Originally built as a WebKit-only touchscreen, it's been deployed to one of their permanent galleries running in Google Chrome for the last couple of months. Some technical details: * All animation is done with CSS transitions. * Each page is actually a separate HTML file thats pulled in via AJAX. * A sma…

    Comment linking /

    on “Show HN: Pushing HTML5/CSS to the max for a museum touchscreen interactive”
  6. Submitted A tasteful variation on the RESTful Rails routes as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted OmniSocial: a Rails 3 Engine for Twitter and Facebook Logins as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted TaskPaper and To-Do List Bankruptcy Without the Trauma as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Announcing gentlyremind.me: a little helper for your Twitter consumption as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted What you see is what you want – thoughts on rich text editors for the web as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Asset Pipeline Tips as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Dispatch, the simplest business model we could make work as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted A conversational introduction to rom-rb as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted A change-positive Ruby web application architecture as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted A change-positive Ruby web application architecture as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Better Ruby with an inversion of control container as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Lil’ Launch: A Chrome extension for quicker and easier access to your bookmarks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted What you see is what you want as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Functional command objects in Ruby as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Examine your day so you can learn from it as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Money, Stress and The Cloud (Case study on rails streaming responses on Heroku) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Don't let Typekit kill your website as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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