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Jeff Balogh
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Jeff Balogh's personal blog at jbalogh.me covers programming and web. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Introducing Push Notifications for Firefox”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jeff Balogh's 2012 post on a proposed Firefox web push notification system, which they describe as having technical details and code samples, and his Django Cache Machine docs on cache invalidation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Introducing Push Notifications for Firefox3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-02-03
What Hacker News says?
Some info about it: * Like Firefox, it is open source! http://github.com/potch/glow * Counter was started this morning at 6am PST. * Each dot represents one download. * Map is generated using SVG, "pings" are divs with rounded corners, country radial charts are canvas. * The bars across the bottom shows downloads per minute. * You can drill down to the city level, to see how many downloads from your town. (Click the…
Comment linking /
on “Mozilla Glow: Awesome Firefox 4 live download day map”Submitted How to Add Push Notifcations to your Website as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's the original blog post they reference [EDIT: and now link to], with technical details and code samples: http://jbalogh.me/2012/01/30/push-notifications/ And, the wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Notifications/Push/API Firefox has a presence on most operating systems (Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS), so the goal would be that a website could send you a notification whenever and Mozilla would…
Comment linking /2012/01/30/push-notifications/
on “Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox”Submitted Introducing Push Notifications for Firefox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTook a look at the Django Cache Machine they mention, at the invalidation scheme ( http://jbalogh.me/projects/cache-machine/#cache-manager ). It stores a "flush list", linking objects to their originating, cached queries. Interesting, though looks like something that could get out of hand quickly - are they storing the "flush list" itself in the cache (else how do all nodes learn of the invalidation) ? That's intere…
Comment linking /projects/cache-machine/
on “How to Add Django Database Caching in 5 Minutes”Another interesting (yet never shipped) take on notifications by Mozilla: http://jbalogh.me/2012/01/30/push-notifications/ These would have allowed sites to send you notifications after you had left the page, like iOS's push notifications work.
Comment linking /2012/01/30/push-notifications/
on “Desktop notifications in Firefox nightlies”Sounds like what the Firefox (and Chrome) devs have been busy creating. http://socialapi.net/ http://jbalogh.me/2012/01/30/push-notifications/ http://www.webrtc.org/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebActivities https://persona.org/
Comment linking /2012/01/30/push-notifications/
on “We Need a Social Web OS”