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Jeffrey Croft
Personal blog · jeffcroft.com/blogdesignwebprogramming
Jeffrey Croft's personal blog at jeffcroft.com covers design, web and programming. Since 2007, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “On the term 'HTML5'”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jeff Croft's blog for commentary on web standards and terminology such as HTML5, the web designer career, CSS tooling, and editors like Coda. Comments mostly cite the posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jeff Croft is a product designer, software engineer, and occasional author, in Seattle, WA. He's worked in generative AI, social media, journalism, publishing, education, and more.
Most-linked posts?
- On the term 'HTML5'3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-08-06
- "Don't use web standards because Jeffrey Zeldman told you to," Blueprint's class names are OK2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-08-15
- Web standards killed the HTML star2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-04
- Top ten things that suck about Django, revisited2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-07-26
What Hacker News says?
I think it is important to differentiate between HAML syntax and SASS. Even though both are part of the same package, SASS syntax is actually quite minimal and closely follows CSS syntax, without the extraneous syntactical elements like curly braces etc. Chris Eppstein, the inventor of SASS has stated elsewhere that one of his primary goals is to make SASS friendly for designers to use, and he claims to have sought…
Comment linking /blog/2009/may/20/applying-oop-concepts-css/
on “Less, a leaner CSS”Submitted Web standards killed the HTML star as a story · 76 points
HN discussionThe concern of what advancements in technology mean for web workers has recently blossomed in main circles. Jeff Croft wrote that being a web designer isn't enough to sustain a career.[1] Jeffrey Zeldman countered that argument with the notion that being an expert in the field is enough to sustain oneself, but only if you can expand on your knowledge with other skills.[2] Andrew Clarke then followed-up on both of th…
Comment linking /blog/2014/jan/03/web-standards-killed-the-html-star/
on “Coming to an office near you”Submitted Why We Don't Skip Photoshop as a story · 59 points
HN discussionThis discussion was, in fact, making the rounds of the standardistas a week or two ago (following the release of html5test). Not only did everybody agree with your assessment, but most of them thought it was good (only a few people such as Tantek are trying to make HTML5 refer only to the W3C HTML5 spec... they'll fail). As Chris Wilson insightfully put it: > HTML5 is now a brand, more than it is a specification. Th…
Comment linking /blog/2010/aug/02/term-html5/
on “HTML5 Brief: in one paragraph”Submitted Don’t tell me about your product as a story · 27 points
HN discussioni just read a blog post taking the other side of this argument: http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2007/aug/09/myth-content-and-prese...
Comment linking /blog/2007/aug/09/myth-content-and-presentation-separation/
on “Awesome BlueprintCSS framework hits 0.7”Submitted On Coda 2 and Diet Coda as a story · 26 points
HN discussionJeff Croft: But I think there’s actually a very good reason why we should, in fact, embrace the term “HTML5” as an overarching buzzword for this latest round of web standards and specifications. Our industry has proven on several occasions that we don’t get excited about new, interesting, and useful technologies and concepts until such a buzzword is in place. Source: http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2010/aug/02/term-html5/…
Comment linking /blog/2010/aug/02/term-html5/
on “HTML5 buzzwords in action”Submitted Top ten things that suck about Django, revisited as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThe problem is that even if Apple supported Flash, it wouldn't probably work anyway... http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2010/may/08/android-flash-demo-fla...
Comment linking /blog/2010/may/08/android-flash-demo-flashcamp-seattle/
on “"Great Web Site, Pixar" -- Seriously?”Submitted JeffCroft.com: On Flash as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI had a whole response ready, but it looks like Steven Frank - one of the founders and devs at Panic - replied in the comments and addressed all the issues: "We edit directly on a server — but not our production server. We have a staging server which is an identical clone of the production server, and also a Subversion working copy. A deployment script syncs everything over to production when it’s ready, which is a…
Comment linking /blog/2012/may/22/on-coda-2-and-diet-coda/
on “On Coda 2 and Diet Coda”Submitted Ryan Funduk: Our Culture of Exclusion as a story · 8 points
HN discussionMy programming (development) resources include sources that are as much a evolution of the Internet itself. There's news:, pre Web, then web 1/1.5 and finally web2.0. You may notice the sites are not always exclusively about "programming" . Why? Well I find that a lot of the best stuff occurs at the edges of programming/development in lots of different areas. This wide scanning of sources is an attempt to avoid the…
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on “Ask YC: Your best programming websites/blogs”Submitted "Don't use web standards because Jeffrey Zeldman told you to," Blueprint's class names are OK as a story · 8 points
HN discussionOne of my deciders is how many people are blogging or writing to mailing lists with problems or tutorials or sample code, whatever. Django is really a nice framework, but when you start googling specific issues, e.g. working with an ajax lib or finding/deploying to a VPS/ shared host, ther'es a lot more blog entries on specific issues/techniques that people have used in PHP than in Django. Also true for PHP activity…
Comment linking /blog/2008/jul/25/top-ten-things-suck-about-django-revisited/
on “Ask HN: django vs php: a hard choice”Submitted Web Design vs. Product Design as a story · 7 points
HN discussion"... Django has a clever admin interface that gives you easy access to every data model you can dream up, but this is only a really neat hack. ..." The best thing in django IMOBO is the admin & the fact it makes you concentrate and work on the data first. On the other hand the template engine logic (at least the way some users uggest you use it) [0] is pretty ordinary and unrealistic ( LJWorld is mostly read hence s…
Comment linking /blog/2007/aug/09/myth-content-and-presentation-separation/
on “Why I moved from Ruby on Rails to Python/Django and back”Submitted Why are there no web designers in W3C? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted JeffCroft.com: On admin interfaces as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Applying OOP Concepts to CSS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Measuring the Django Community: The Django Community in 2012 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On CSS preprocessors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should social media be paying you? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the term 'HTML5' as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IPad thoughts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Django’s URL template tag sucks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forest, Trees, and acko.net as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Lendle (Kindle book sharing) was built as a story · 1 points
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