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James Britt
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James Britt's personal blog at jamesbritt.com covers programming and writing. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Thoughts on Haml”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link James Britt's 2009 'Thoughts on Haml' post as a critique of Haml and a reference in Haml and Sass debates. Commenters call it excellent and definitive.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Thoughts on Haml2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-05-06
What Hacker News says?
It's both serious and facetious. You're right, about 80 million bands played there, so in one sense it's not such an amazing feat. OTOH, it's just fucking cool. :) I played there a few times; not sure how many bands got asked back. Getting that first gig was easy. Walked into the club, ran into Hilly Kristal, said I had a band. "Can you bring in 300 people?", "Oh, sure", I lied. I found out we were playing when I wa…
Comment linking /chinese-forehead/
on “Ask HN: Cool Things You've Done (Brag Thread)”Submitted Thoughts on Haml as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI've no new stuff to post but here's some old stuff: http://www.jamesbritt.com/chinese-forehead/ There are some links on there to some mp3s. I keep meaning to stick more stuff up on archive.org.
Comment linking /chinese-forehead/
on “Ask HN: Do you create music? Let's hear it!”Submitted Ruby-doc.org officially updated as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI agree that the problems HAML creates for collaboration between programmers and designers - who, as you say will never learn HAML - is the key limitation of HAML - a limitation also discussed by James Britt in his excellent post on the topic: http://www.jamesbritt.com/2009/4/29/thoughts-on-haml .
Comment linking /2009/4/29/thoughts-on-haml
on “Haml Sucks for Content”Submitted A Technique for Creating a Talk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJames Britt wrote the definitive post (in my opinion) on the use of Haml: http://www.jamesbritt.com/2009/4/29/thoughts-on-haml
Comment linking /2009/4/29/thoughts-on-haml
on “Why use HAML (and SASS) if you already know HTML?”Submitted Thoughts on Haml as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote up some comments on using a screencasting tool here http://jamesbritt.com/2010/3/5/a-technique-for-creating-a-ta... and http://jamesbritt.com/2010/4/11/a-technique-for-creating-a-t...
Comment linking /2010/4/11/a-technique-for-creating-a-talk-part-2-ish
on “Presentation Hacks: It's a performance”Submitted Nielsen Rating: 100% Clueless as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI imagine many of the same arguments for and against Haml would apply to Sass. I'm thinking of James Britt's critique: http://www.jamesbritt.com/2009/4/30/thoughts-on-haml Would be curious to hear what people think of Sass. I'm considering using Haml/Sass as my templating engine.
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on “SASS: The Better, More Powerful CSS”