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Jonnie Hallman
Personal blog · destroytoday.com/blogdesignprogramming
Jonnie Hallman's personal blog at destroytoday.com covers design and programming. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jonnie Hallman's blog for his design work and posts about building things, such as the write-up of the Pencil page and his early 'hello world' post. Comments mostly point to his portfolio.
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.
An indie design engineer based in Brooklyn.
What Hacker News says?
If fame is your measure for success, sure. Cushion took no funding to reach profitability, and is growing at a rate that Jonnie seems to enjoy. Here's his portfolio site, in case you wonder what no-name unknown companies worked with him before: http://destroytoday.com/
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on “Running Costs of a SaaS app”Submitted Why I switched to Spine.js as a story · 98 points
HN discussionI believe stripe's designers include @destroytoday, his design of paper 53 impressed me a lot several years ago [1]. Surely it also contains animations, but it's more elegant and smoother. [1] https://destroytoday.com/blog/building-the-pencil-page
Comment linking /blog/building-the-pencil-page
on “Making our new homepage fast and performant”Submitted Burning Out and Finding Stability (2019) as a story · 71 points
HN discussionOn a slight tangent, I love reading the first posts of a blog. Especially when the subsequent posts are about the person building or designing said blog. It it’s really hard to find those kinds of posts or blogs. All the results on google are blog spam articles about making money with a blog. Can anyone recommend some? Here’s one of my favourite examples. https://destroytoday.com/blog/hello-world
Comment linking /blog/hello-world
on “Why I Blog”Submitted Why I switched to Spine.js as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the Casper homepage as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book covers, model airplanes, and my dad as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The story behind the awesome page of FiftyThree's Pencil as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: The tech behind our wedding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Establishing a weekly user interview routine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Animating Quines for Larva Labs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons learned on a 3‑month sabbatical as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: My GIF workflow using Dropbox and Alfred as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Redesigning with rules as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turn your MacBook eject key into a rimshot button as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hello World, I'm Jekyll as a story · 1 points
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