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inkdroid
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inkdroid is a personal blog at inkdroid.org about web and programming. Since 2011, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “An Ode to Node”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link inkdroid's posts on the history of JSON (via a Crockford interview), PURLs as web infrastructure, and a write-up on a Wikipedia edit-stream visualization. Some comments cite them as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- An Ode to Node3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-11-07
- Lessons of JSON3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-04-30
- 10:21 PM EDT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-15
What Hacker News says?
Plan to throw one away https://inkdroid.org/talks/notredame/plan.html
Comment linking /talks/notredame/plan.html
on “Apple’s Use of AppKit, Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI in macOS”Submitted Realtime visualization of Wikipedia edit streams as a story · 101 points
HN discussionYou are correct - confirmed in this video: Lessons of JSON 'A recent (and short) IEEE Computing Conversations interview with Douglas Crockford about the development of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) offers some profound, and sometimes counter-intuitive, insights into standards development on the Web.' http://inkdroid.org/journal/2012/04/30/lessons-of-json/ { Thank you Douglas for your vision :) }
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on “Comments in JSON”Submitted Lessons of JSON as a story · 97 points
HN discussionThanks for the interest! I wrote up some high level notes at http://inkdroid.org/journal/2011/11/07/an-ode-to-node/ if you want to know a bit more.
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on “Realtime visualization of Wikipedia edit streams”Submitted A bit about PURLs as a story · 44 points
HN discussionBrilliant! Care to elaborate on the implementation? Edit: Found some details on the about page http://inkdroid.org:3000/about/ and everything else at https://github.com/edsu/wikistream
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on “Realtime visualization of Wikipedia edit streams”Submitted Fielding notes as a story · 22 points
HN discussionDouglas built the JSON spec 1) to be language agnostic. Following ES5's syntax directions is fine for ES5 focused development, possibly not for others. 2) to be final - i.e. there is no version number. If you want to extend or build something else, I am fairly certain Douglas would prefer that you call it something else. See http://inkdroid.org/journal/2012/04/30/lessons-of-json/ at 5:30 in the video. Don't take the…
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on “Show HN: JSON5 — modern JSON”Submitted Automated testing to discover quiet API changes as a story · 18 points
HN discussion> Maybe this little post will whet someone else’s appetite to looking closer at PURL as a web infrastructure. I think it also is a great example of how exposed pipes are useful when building applications that are meant to be infrastructure. I come away with the opposite reaction: exposed "pipes", in this instance, are undesirable. Their being exposed raw probably contributes to the kind of problem that PURLs were cr…
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on “A bit about PURLs”Submitted An Ode to Node as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why CongressEdits? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10:21 PM EDT as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running CERN httpd 3.0A from 1996 (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things to consider when deciding to start building with "AI" in libraries as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creepy Polaroid as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10:21 PM EDT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Web As A Preservation Medium as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ici - Wikipedia Articles Here as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning From People Who Do as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polling and pushing with the Times Newswire API to create nytimestream as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Ode to Node as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uh oh it's Magic (comparing magika, file, siegfried) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted T.co as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Archiving Your Twitter Bookmarks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delete Forensics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wikistream: realtime edits of Wikipedia as a story · 1 points
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