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Idan Gazit
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Idan Gazit's personal blog at gazit.me covers design and programming. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Twitter’s poor API documentation practices”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Idan Gazit's 2012 post on Twitter's undocumented retweet_count, where the API returned the string "100+". Commenters cite it as an example of poor API documentation.
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.
The personal website of Idan Gazit
Most-linked posts?
- Twitter’s poor API documentation practices4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-01-09
What Hacker News says?
Sorry to hear that. I don't find the typeface to be as good as my current favorite workhorse serif (Elena, from process type, which I licensed for http://gazit.me )—but I don't find it to be objectionable or harmful to legibility either. Quite the opposite, I found it to be a serif with personality—less so than the commonly-used Skolar—and it reminded me of Elena (the shape of the adnate serifs, the slightly negativ…
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on “Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers”Submitted Twitter’s poor API documentation practices as a story · 166 points
HN discussion> Why/how would you get to the point where you're operating on the value without being certain of its type? My favorite example of this is the twitter API, which used to report retweet count as the string "100+" for the case of over 100 retweets. This behavior was not documented [1], so until you encounter that example, you wouldn't necessarily expect this or defend against a string [1] From 2012 http://gazit.me/201…
Comment linking /2012/01/09/Twitter-documentation-fail.html
on “JavaScript Equality Table”Submitted Designing Presentations as a story · 130 points
HN discussionhttp://gazit.me/2012/12/05/designing-presentations.html
Comment linking /2012/12/05/designing-presentations.html
on “Ask HN: How do I learn to use Powerpoint well?”Submitted The Sorry State of Native App Typography Licensing as a story · 81 points
HN discussionPerhaps this is not in response to Idan Gazit’s complaint http://gazit.me/2012/01/09/Twitter-documentation-fail.html , but the timing is certainly interesting.
Comment linking /2012/01/09/Twitter-documentation-fail.html
on “Twitter to uncap retweet_count”Submitted PyCon 2012 Branding: A Design Timelapse as a story · 79 points
HN discussionhttp://gazit.me/2012/01/09/Twitter-documentation-fail.html Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3444429
Comment linking /2012/01/09/Twitter-documentation-fail.html
on “Ask HN: Looking for a post about bad design of Twitter API retweet_count”Submitted UI/UX and Subjectivity as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSubmitted Selective Outrage as a story · 3 points
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