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Kris Jordan
Personal blog · krisjordan.com · on HN as KrisJordanprogrammingweb
Kris Jordan's personal blog at krisjordan.com covers programming and web. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link his posts, including one on a lesson from Joshua Schachter about making something people want and another on a TR35 profile. One comment recounts converting Computer Modern to a webfont.
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.
Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill
What Hacker News says?
When the survey initially came out I was randomly given Computer Modern. The day before, I had painstakingly converted Computer Modern it to a webfont for a friend's blog ( http://www.krisjordan.com ) and I was shocked to see it on nytimes.com. I quickly went over to a different (Windows) machine to try it out because I couldn't believe my eyes. That one was given Georgia, so I mistakenly assumed that Errol Morris w…
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on “The effect of typefaces on credibility”Submitted Jason Fried - 10 Things We've Learned at 37Signals as a story · 102 points
HN discussionCal just gave a great (also very entertaining) extended talk on scalable internet architectures at the Web 2.0 Expo in NY. My live notes here and will digest and add pictures this evening. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=306078 http://www.krisjordan.com/2008/09/16/cal-henderson-scalable-...
Comment linking /2008/09/16/cal-henderson-scalable-web-architectures-common-patterns-and-approaches/
on “"Why I Hate Django" - DjangoCon 2008 Keynote by Cal Henderson [vid]”Submitted Show HN: multimethod.js - a Clojure-inspired multimethod library for JavaScript as a story · 49 points
HN discussionI abandoned PHP about two years back. 8 months ago, after going to a conference and hearing the folks at Flickr talk, specifically Cal Henderson ( http://www.krisjordan.com/2008/09/16/cal-henderson-scalable-... ) I got re-energized to take another stab at making PHP pleasant to work with. The results of my last push evolved into a PHP framework: Recess. ( http://www.recessframework.org ) It's got annotations for a d…
Comment linking /2008/09/16/cal-henderson-scalable-web-architectures-common-patterns-and-approaches/
on “Ask HN: Why no love for PHP? ”Submitted Why the Google Chrome Comic Rocked - Scott McCloud’s “Invisible Art” as a story · 38 points
HN discussionhttp://www.krisjordan.com/2008/09/17/joshua-schachter-lesson... Also this: http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&...
Comment linking /2008/09/17/joshua-schachter-lessons-learned-in-scaling-and-building-social-systems
on “Ask HN: "How to make something people want?"”Submitted The Micro PHP Manifesto's Missing Tenet as a story · 36 points
HN discussionHow the Recess! Framework addresses these oversights: http://www.krisjordan.com/2008/11/28/how-recess-solves-commo... To summarize: abstractions and proper layering of database code.
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on “PHP Design - Biggest Database Oversights”Submitted David Heinemeier Hansson - Go REST with Rails - Web 2.0 NY Talk as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI really like PowerPoint because you can simulate interactivity, it's easy, and it's flexible. A few links: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/interactive http://www.krisjordan.com/2008/09/07/10-minute-mock-prototyp... http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071018/powerpoint-prototy... There are tools specific to GUI-prototyping that have other upsides/downsides, a great list is here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GuiPrototypi…
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on “Persona-Driven Development: Meet Customers First, Write Unit Tests Later”Submitted Towards RESTful PHP - 5 Quick Tips as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top 10 Takeaways from Web 2.0 Expo in NY as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Persona-Driven Development: Meet Customers First, Write Unit Tests Later as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sandy Jen - Scaling Synchronous Web Apps: Lessons Learned from Meebo as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 Tips for Quick & Dirty Prototype Mockups in PowerPoint as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Timesaving crontab Tips as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Inverted Pyramid & other Tips on Making Product Demos as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye, server configuration woes. Hello, Puppet. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing WebKit's Accept Header to Better Support Content Negotiation & REST as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamic Properties in PHP using StdClass as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Live from Web 2.0 in NY: Cal Henderson (Flickr) - Scalable Web Architectures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting up Push-to-Deploy with git as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PourBot: Making an Arduino Pour Over Coffee Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactoring Cache Tables using Memoize as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Muted Methods, Fluent Interfaces, and Bar Game as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Recess Framework Solves Common PHP/MySQL Issues as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Brainstorming Ideas with Sharpies and Sticky Notes as a story · 1 points
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