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Julien Couvreur
Personal blog · blog.monstuff.comprogrammingweb
Julien Couvreur writes Curiosity is bliss, a personal blog at blog.monstuff.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on getting around the browser's cross-domain XMLHttpRequest limit, with one commenter pointing to it as an answer to a question about Flash and cross-domain requests.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Unless there are patents involved. I seem to remember some one-handed keyboard projects (hardware and software) were killed because of patent encumbrance. ( http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000021.html )
Comment linking /archives/000021.html
on “The Minuum keyboard project: mobile keyboards reimagined”Submitted Open mailto: links in Gmail as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThere's some innovation but there are also aggressive patent holders who are holding things back. For example, Matius was stopping one-handed keyboards for a while. http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000021.html There were things like the Frogpad or the HandyKey Twiddler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmzYovAMHE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciQVBNHrKKA
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on “Anatomy of a Mechanical Keyboard (2018)”Here's one that makes me a bit sad: half keyboards have a patent that is enforced. ( http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000021.html )
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on “Exposing Patent Trolls”You used to be able to get software versions but Matthias was enforcing its patent. http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000021.html https://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3067497
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on “Lalboard – A 3D-printed keyboard inspired by the DataHand”I think the half-keyboard stuff. http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000021.html
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on “HacKeyboard, a mechanical keyboard built from scratch”Do you mean "Just dump ajax and use flash" or "flash get's around the cross domain problem"? nevermind, google is quicker than asking questions: http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000280.html
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on “The fight for a cross domain XMLHttpRequest”