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Jakob Skjerning
Personal blog · mentalized.net/journalprogrammingcareer
Jakob Skjerning's personal blog at mentalized.net covers programming and career. Since 2007, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “When software in the cloud goes sour”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this blog's 2006 post on actual browser window sizes as data supporting the claim that most desktop users maximise their windows. A second comment discusses Google's timer search feature.
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.
The virtual home of Jakob Skjerning, an experienced web application developer, consultancy owner and grumpy geek
Most-linked posts?
- When software in the cloud goes sour2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-27
What Hacker News says?
The vast majority of desktop web users will view a site in a window that is maximized. See these articles from 2006 (before mobile browsing took off): http://mentalized.net/journal/2006/10/24/browser_size_does_m... (this one is the most interesting because its data is collected from a variety of sites) http://www.baekdal.com/insights/actual-browser-sizes And this one from 2012: http://beantin.se/post/32275497175/com…
Comment linking /journal/2006/10/24/browser_size_does_matter_-_actual_numbers/
on “Motherfucking Website”Submitted When software in the cloud goes sour as a story · 14 points
HN discussionGoogle has been keeping users from calculator web sites with its calculator/unit converter since before Mark Zuckerberg even wrote Facemash[1]. A fairly obscure timer feature that only shows up when you search for a particular phrase is nothing like search portals of old, nor is this a departure from the different search result widgets they've had for a decade now. This feels like a feature that the OS should have b…
Comment linking /journal/2003/08/12/google_rocks_my_world/
on “Google timer”Submitted The tyranny of software updates as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to make big things happen with small teams as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Internet Explorer 6: The legacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding The Big Rewrite as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can we organise to get our lost stikipad data back? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Humor Driven Development as a story · 1 points
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