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James Pearce

Personal blog · tripleodeon.com · on HN as jamesgpearcewebprogrammingwriting

James Pearce writes Tripleodeon, a personal blog at tripleodeon.com about web, programming and writing. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “First, Understand Your Screen - mobile web fragmentation madness”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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2009–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2011

James Pearce: TinyBase, local-first software, and writing about the web, mobile, and boats. A programme in three columns.

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jamesgpearce · 2,508 karma · member since 2009

Hacker, sailor, TinyBase. Previously Engineering Director at Meta: data infra, dev tools, open source, and platforms. https://x.com/jamespearce https://tripleodeon.com

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  1. First, Understand Your Screen - mobile web fragmentation madness
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. > I thought the author had lost his mind Quite possible. This was a journey! https://tripleodeon.com/2022/01/software-without-compromise/ When I first started thinking about this project, classes still meant a bunch of transpilation overhead (which dates the origin story!). I persuaded myself that plain old objects with TypeScript interfaces would strike a better balance between performance, size, and developer expe…

    Comment linking /2022/01/software-without-compromise/

    on “TinyBase: A JavaScript library for structured state”
  2. Submitted First, Understand Your Screen - mobile web fragmentation madness as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Author here! One of the interesting things about this project was the reality (and curse) of writing software when you don't have any constraints. I wrote a little bit about the experience here too: https://tripleodeon.com/2022/01/software-without-compromise

    Comment linking /2022/01/software-without-compromise

    on “TinyBase: A reactive JS library for structured state and tabular data”
  4. Submitted Closing the Gap Between Your Users and Their Data as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Yes I know! I gave a talk about this, and it made me nostalgic in a way. https://tripleodeon.com/2022/11/closing-the-gap-between-your...

    Comment linking /2022/11/closing-the-gap-between-your-users-and-their-data

    on “Local-First Web Development”
  6. Submitted Software Without Compromise as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted First, Understand your Screen as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Of Sites and Apps as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Whoops and hashbangs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Not a mobile web, merely a 320px-wide one as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted First, Understand Your Screen as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Google Instant's 37 Golden Tickets as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Simple 'on-server' mobile AJAX in Django as a story · 1 points

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