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John Ankarström
Personal blog · john.ankarstrom.seprogrammingweb
John Ankarström's personal blog at john.ankarstrom.se covers programming and web. Since 2018, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Writing HTML in HTML”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link John Ankarström's posts on writing HTML directly, including 'Writing HTML in HTML' and its follow-up, as examples of simple raw-HTML publishing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Writing HTML in HTML5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-06-20
- Static versus Dynamic Websites4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-10-21
- Why use old computers and operating systems?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-18
- Let’s Replace JavaScript with Something Better2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-12
- Using Windows Explorer as a Git IDE2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-31
What Hacker News says?
> For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part? To each their own. I wanted something functional. A stable platform which is organised. I also wanted to write more. Which I still haven't gotten to do. It's more of a functional project than an art project. That doesn't mean the OP's website is bad. But that is not why I created my website…
Comment linking /html/
on “My website is ugly because I made it”Submitted Writing HTML in HTML as a story · 213 points
HN discussionSome people still do this. http://john.ankarstrom.se/html/
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on “The 88x31 GIF Collection”Submitted Why use old computers and operating systems? as a story · 167 points
HN discussionA much better post on the same topic: http://john.ankarstrom.se/html/
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on “My stack is HTML+CSS”Submitted The anti-pattern of responsive design as a story · 162 points
HN discussionAm curious. How is this raw HTML if you're using markdown? But on the other side, writing in raw HTML is a fascinating topic I've been very intrigued by. http://john.ankarstrom.se/html/ is a very inspiring post.
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on “I Blog with Raw HTML”Submitted Writing HTML in HTML (2019) as a story · 103 points
HN discussionPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20238289 And if you want to do this again, see the followup post they made more recently 6 months ago: http://john.ankarstrom.se/html2/
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on “Writing HTML in HTML (2019)”Submitted Why use old computers and operating systems? as a story · 42 points
HN discussionhttp://john.ankarstrom.se/html2/ >Sustainability is also the one of the many reasons why my web site is served over HTTP and not HTTPS. The problem with HTTPS is that you need to get a certificate from a trusted authority, which either costs money or is free but needs to be updated every month, and even if you pay for it, you need to renew the certificate every year or so. If the operation of your blog depends on a…
Comment linking /html2/
on “Firefox: The Jewel^WEmbarassment of Open Source”Submitted Let’s Replace JavaScript with Something Better as a story · 39 points
HN discussionInspired by [ http://john.ankarstrom.se/html](Writing HTML in HTML), as well as other articles I'd been reading, I wrote [ https://git.sr.ht/~acdw/unk](UNK) , a static site generator in 1000 bytes of POSIX sh. Yesterday I realized even that is too bloated, so I pared it down to 445 bytes, resulting in NEF, the son of UNK. It's more a proof-of-concept than anything, but I like it.
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on “NEF: A static site generator in 445 bytes of Posix sh”Submitted Using Windows Explorer as a Git IDE as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why use old computers and operating systems? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static versus Dynamic Websites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Zoom That Bad? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing an Declarative Alternative to JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning C as an Uneducated Hobbyist as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s Kill JavaScript (and Replace It with Something Better) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Windows Explorer as a Git IDE (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static versus Dynamic Web Sites as a story · 2 points
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