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Jos Dirksen

Personal blog · smartjava.org/contentprogrammingweb

Jos Dirksen writes SmartJava, a personal blog at smartjava.org about programming and web. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 77 times, most often “Tutorial: Getting started with scala and scalatra”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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77mentions?
6HN people?
2012–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 42 in 2012

My name is Jos Dirksen, I currently work as independent contractor for Port of Rotterdam. I like talking, reading, presenting and writing about technology

Most-linked posts?

  1. Tutorial: Getting started with scala and scalatra
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-11
  2. Remotely vibrate a phone with morse code using web sockets and the vibrate API.
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. Juha · 2012-05-26

    Submitted Face detection using HTML5, javascript, webrtc, websockets, Jetty and OpenCV as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  2. josdirksen · 2012-06-08

    Submitted HTML5: Access Battery status through javascript as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  3. josdirksen · 2013-03-01

    Submitted Movie Color Analysis - Part 1 as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  4. josdirksen · 2016-05-15

    Submitted Scala-native was just shown. Article shows how to setup working dev environment as a story · 10 points

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  5. josdirksen · 2015-11-02

    Submitted Akka Typed Actors: Exploring the Receiver Pattern as a story · 4 points

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  6. Feneric · 2016-05-10

    Submitted Render 3D Star Wars Models with Blender and Three.js as a story · 3 points

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  7. josdirksen · 2015-10-12

    Submitted Akka Typed: First steps with typed actors in Scala as a story · 3 points

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  8. josdirksen · 2015-07-03

    Submitted Exploring Web Audio API and Filters (Firefox and Chrome) as a story · 3 points

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  9. josdirksen · 2012-11-26

    Submitted Tutorial: Node.js and Express.js - Part I - Getting started as a story · 3 points

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  10. josdirksen · 2012-09-11

    Submitted Tutorial: Getting started with scala and scalatra- RESTful API & specs2 testing as a story · 3 points

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  11. josdirksen · 2012-08-13

    Submitted HTML5: Render open geo data on a 3D world globe with Three.js as a story · 3 points

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  12. josdirksen · 2012-07-18

    Submitted Europe financial crisis visualized with interactive timeline (d3.js, Three.js) as a story · 3 points

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  13. josdirksen · 2016-04-25

    Submitted Scalaz features for everyday usage part 1: Typeclasses and Scala extensions as a story · 2 points

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  14. josdirksen · 2016-04-25

    Submitted Service Discovery with Docker and Consul: Part 1 as a story · 2 points

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  15. josdirksen · 2016-03-23

    Submitted Use Atom Editor and Ensime for Scala Development as a story · 2 points

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  16. josdirksen · 2016-01-19

    Submitted Create a Slack Docker Proxy in Go – Part 1 as a story · 2 points

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  17. josdirksen · 2014-11-22

    Submitted Tutorial on Reactive Mongo with Scala, Akka and Websockets as a story · 2 points

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  18. josdirksen · 2014-02-10

    Submitted Browser to browser communication with Vert.x, websockets and HTML5 as a story · 2 points

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  19. josdirksen · 2014-01-14

    Submitted Capture Canvas and WebGL output as video using websockets and vertx as a story · 2 points

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  20. josdirksen · 2013-03-20

    Submitted Movie Color Analysis - Part II - The Batman Trilogy as a story · 2 points

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  21. josdirksen · 2013-02-19

    Submitted Quickly create GUI for javascript variables with dat.GUI as a story · 2 points

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  22. josdirksen · 2013-02-19

    Submitted Chrome and Firefox: Use Javascript to Send Desktop Notifications as a story · 2 points

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  23. rohshall · 2013-01-30

    Submitted Tutorial: Getting started with scala and scalatra as a story · 2 points

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  24. josdirksen · 2012-12-18

    Submitted Site allows you to visualize 17 years of corruption data from transparency.org as a story · 2 points

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  25. josdirksen · 2012-12-05

    Submitted Drag and Drop with AngularJS using jQuery UI as a story · 2 points

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  26. josdirksen · 2012-11-01

    Submitted Exploring the HTML5 Web Audio API: Filters as a story · 2 points

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  27. josdirksen · 2012-10-31

    Submitted HTML5 Webapp lets you play around with the Web Audio API filters (chrome) as a story · 2 points

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  28. josdirksen · 2012-10-26

    Submitted Copy and paste images into your browser using W3C Clipboard API as a story · 2 points

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  29. josdirksen · 2012-10-18

    Submitted Exploring the HTML5 Web Audio API: visualizing sound in the browser as a story · 2 points

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  30. josdirksen · 2012-09-24

    Submitted Record audio using webrtc in chrome and speech recognition with websockets as a story · 2 points

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