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Jon Ludlam
Personal blog · jon.recoil.org/blogprogrammingweb
Jon Ludlam's personal blog at jon.recoil.org covers programming and web. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “An SVG is all you need”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jon Ludlam's posts, including 'An SVG is all you need', as arguments for SVG's usefulness and for stable, older tech. One commenter notes the SVG depends on an external script.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- An SVG is all you need2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-11
What Hacker News says?
Sort of... the SVG is referencing `svgscript.js` which is being fetched from the server ( https://jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/12/svgscript.js )
Comment linking /blog/2025/12/svgscript.js
on “An SVG is all you need”Submitted An SVG is all you need as a story · 347 points
HN discussionI've been noticing lately, at least for myself, that useful technology stopped happening like 10-20 years ago. If all you could use was tech from 2000 and before you would have a pretty stable stack that just worked (without a monthly subscription.) There is also this article today: https://jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/12/an-svg-is-all-you-need.h... about how great good ol' svg is. And then every recurring article about…
Comment linking /blog/2025/12/an-svg-is-all-you-need.html
on “My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)”Submitted Semantic Versioning in OCaml Is Hard as a story · 4 points
HN discussion