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Kelly Norton

Personal blog · kellegous.com/jprogrammingweb

Kelly Norton's personal blog at kellegous.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Where in the U.S. will you find the most “pleasant” days in a year?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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13mentions?
9HN people?
2012–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Kelly Norton's blog for the Pleasant Places tool that finds places to live by climate and ZIP code, and for a post on layout and web performance.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Where in the U.S. will you find the most “pleasant” days in a year?
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-02-04
  2. On Layout and Web Performance
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-28
  3. /j/2014/02/03/pleasant-places/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. I like data like this - it reminds me of the pleasant places maps[1]. That said - you have to be wary of both types of maps because it doesn't take into account other potentially annoying factors. The biggest being humidity - there's a huge difference between 90 degree phoenix and 90 degree miami. Then there's rainfall, and one a lot of people don't think about - wind. To add - if you're thinking about seriously com…

    Comment linking /j/2014/02/03/pleasant-places/

    on “Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate”
  2. Submitted On Layout and Web Performance as a story · 135 points

    HN discussion
  3. This reminds me of Kelly Norton’a Pleasant Places to Live, where you can search by ZIP code: https://kellegous.com/j/2014/02/03/pleasant-places/ I wrote to him to try and get the places listed in table form, sortable CSV, but never received a reply.

    Comment linking /j/2014/02/03/pleasant-places/

    on “Cities with Nice Weather”
  4. Submitted Where in the U.S. will you find the most “pleasant” days in a year? as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  5. I may be responsible for the term "layout thrashing" and tried to explain it in a blog post a while back: http://kellegous.com/j/2013/01/26/layout-performance/

    Comment linking /j/2013/01/26/layout-performance/

    on “Preventing 'layout thrashing'”
  6. Submitted Don't Lose $2,000 to Comcast Business as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  7. FYI, it took me a little digging around to figure out where your atom feed is. :-) Here in case anyone else wants it: http://kellegous.com/atom.xml

    Comment linking /atom.xml

    on “On Layout and Web Performance”
  8. Submitted The Holy Fear as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. pestaa · 2013-01-28Recommends
    Excellent article. Most projects treat the client-side like a necessary evil and so I've seen pages with thousands of divs that can cause a hundred reflows for a single click. Not good, although at least it made the backend feel very fast in comparison! And here's Kelly Norton's example code: http://kellegous.com/media/upload/2013/01/layout.js

    Comment linking /media/upload/2013/01/layout.js

    on “On Layout and Web Performance”
  10. Submitted InnerText vs. textContent as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. On Seattle weather, it actually gets less rain than NYC and virtually never gets biting cold-- I play outdoor sports year round, 90% of the time, I'm wearing shorts. Current lawn status: brownish from lack of rain and getting browner. :-/ Definitely more gray than average, but fares pretty well on pleasant temps (source: http://www.kellegous.com/j/2014/02/03/pleasant-places/ ).

    Comment linking /j/2014/02/03/pleasant-places/

    on “Seattle, the New Center of a Tech Boom”
  12. Submitted The Most Pleasant Places to Live in America as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Inspiration must find you working as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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