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Jeff Verkoeyen

Personal blog · blog.jeffverkoeyen.comprogrammingdesign

Jeff Verkoeyen's personal blog at blog.jeffverkoeyen.com covers programming and design. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Stop compiling. Start building.”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
4HN people?
2011–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as a precedent for styling native mobile apps with CSS-like stylesheets (Nimbus Stylesheets, the Nimbus Chameleon post). Commenters mention it only as a related earlier project next to Pixate.

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?

  1. Stop compiling. Start building.
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-10-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. aaronbrethorst · 2012-07-20
    Nimbus Stylesheets: http://blog.jeffverkoeyen.com/nimbus-chameleon

    Comment linking /nimbus-chameleon

    on “Pixate - beautiful native mobile apps with CSS”
  2. aaronbrethorst · 2011-10-13

    Submitted Stop compiling. Start building. as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. carson · 2012-08-28
    I found this interesting when I saw it before. I had thought of something similar after seeing Nimbus Chameleon http://blog.jeffverkoeyen.com/nimbus-chameleon The difference for me however was I was just thinking iOS and was wondering if something could be created that utilized the UIAppearance APIs in UIKit http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/... Edit: I realized I ran into something that do…

    Comment linking /nimbus-chameleon

    on “The Pixate Project: Bringing CSS to Native Apps”
  4. featherless · 2013-12-08

    Submitted How Day One powers my Jekyll Blog as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. carson · 2012-08-02
    I was thinking about something like this the other day. Nimbus has something similar I think http://blog.jeffverkoeyen.com/nimbus-chameleon

    Comment linking /nimbus-chameleon

    on “Pixate promises app UI production in pure CSS”
  6. div · 2011-10-13

    Submitted Style your iOS apps in realtime using CSS with Chameleon for Nimbus as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. featherless · 2011-10-13

    Submitted Use CSS and Node.js to style your native iOS apps in real time. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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