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Justin McCandless
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Justin McCandless's personal blog at justinmccandless.com covers programming and web. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in replies on SVG drawing and zoom (changing the viewBox) and on jQuery fade-in hover menus. The comments cite his posts as supporting references, not as praise.
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.
Computer science, engineering, travel
What Hacker News says?
I "love" how China actually tried to formalize this some time ago. Every citizen would get a citizen score, like our credit ratings, but grading how politically loyal they were. There was quite a bit of outrage on the western internet about this. The "funny" thing is, our governments are probably doing very similar things (though still to a lesser degree, and secretly). A big difference is that China often doesn't h…
Comment linking /files/beijingSpirit.jpg
on “Pardon Snowden”Submitted Setting Up HTTPS on Node for Free with Let's Encrypt as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMaking a vector image is piece of cake. The SVG syntax is a bit concise, but that's about it. See http://blogs.sitepointstatic.com/examples/tech/svg-curves/cu... . Regarding arbitrary zoom, it's just a matter of changing the viewbox: http://www.justinmccandless.com/blog/Making+Sense+of+SVG+vie... (it's no madness though) And you don't even have to redraw (that's the benefit of SVG, it has a scene graph unlike canvas…
Comment linking /blog/Making+Sense+of+SVG+viewBox's+Madness
on “This is a web page”Make sure you .stop() those fadein hover menus on the plus sign (+) buttons. If you hover over them multiple times quickly then they bounce back and forth fading in/out. Try something like this: http://justinmccandless.com/blog/Correctly+Fading+in%2Fout+o...
Comment linking /blog/Correctly+Fading+in%2Fout+onmouseover+Using+jQuery
on “Starting a consulting business. Can I get some feedback on my new site?”
