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Keith Peters
Personal blog · bit-101.com/blogprogrammingdesign
Keith Peters writes BIT-101, a personal blog at bit-101.com about programming and design. Since 2010, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 54 times, most often “Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Keith Peters' blog as a source on Flash and animation tooling, including sprite sheet export, plus a note on e-ink versus LCD pixel density. Comments cite its posts without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Programming, creative coding, tutorials by Keith Peters
Most-linked posts?
- Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-13
- Coding Curves2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-13
- SWFSheet – create sprite sheets from SWFs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-11
- Kindle 3 under the microscope2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-04
- Circle Inversion2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-01
- My Raytracing Journey2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-30
What Hacker News says?
Great post! Here's one from Keith Peters with some interactive code examples: https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2022/01/circle-inversion/
Comment linking /blog/2022/01/circle-inversion/
on “What is the inverse of a circle?”Submitted A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics as a story · 365 points
HN discussionYou can export sprite sheets from animations created in the Adobe Flash authoring tool. There are a number of free third party tools that enable this: SWFSheet http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2939 Zoe http://gskinner.com/blog/archives/2011/02/zoe-export-swf-ani... This feature is also being built into the next version of Flash Professional (the authoring tool), with support for export to various JavaScript libraries…
Comment linking /blog/?p=2939
on “Google I/O 2012”Submitted Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal as a story · 275 points
HN discussion"maybe such a high pixel density is unnecessary with e-ink?" That's right. E-ink pixels are not square, don't have gaps, and don't use three colour pixels to create white. A higher pixel density with e-ink would be nice, but isn't as necessary as it is with LCD. http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2722
Comment linking /blog/?p=2722
on “Live from Apple's iPad 2 event”Submitted Git-Based Wiki as a story · 136 points
HN discussionit might be some swfsheet ( http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2948 ) type of software. Having that sprite (what a design!!!), you can animate it with jquery easily...
Comment linking /blog/?p=2948
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