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Jürg Lehni
Personal blog · scratchdisk.com/postsprogrammingwebdesign
Jürg Lehni writes Scratchdisk.com, a personal blog at scratchdisk.com about programming, web and design. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Implementing Operator Overloading in JavaScript (2014)”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jürg Lehni's site as an example of creative coding work, such as a motorized realtime graffiti plotter built with his Scriptographer code. The comments mention the work rather than judging the writing.
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.
A collection of articles by Jürg Lehni that—over time—shall touch upon the subjects of Programming, JavaScript, Geometry, Vector Graphics, as well as the programming libraries Paper.js and Straps.js.
Most-linked posts?
- Implementing Operator Overloading in JavaScript (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-08
What Hacker News says?
I totally agree. On top of that I think that its much more rewarding to learn the actual technology / language and not just a framework that represents one opinion about how things should get done. When trying to learn some c++ and opengl, i totally see the need for good libraries, which abstract some of the initial verbose window and shader setup, its good to directly jump into manipulating vertices and stuff. They…
Comment linking /posts/operator-overloading
on “P5.js: Processing for today’s web”Submitted Implementing Operator Overloading in JavaScript (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI do a lot of what you seem to describe as Creative programming. . 1) Film Special Effects - Someone has to animate 10K orcs in battle 2) Video Titling / Sweep FX - Someone has to write cool fade in effects . 3) Straight up hacker style art: See the inspirational Jürg Lehni: . http://www.scratchdisk.com/Work/Hektor/Will-Morris.jpg/ - a motorized realtime graffiti plotter, based on robotics and his scriptographer cod…
Comment linking /Work/
on “Ask HN: Is there any market for creative coders?”