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Lee Munroe

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Lee Munroe's personal blog at leemunroe.com covers design and web. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “How To Validate A Feature Idea In 5 Minutes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-23, and you can follow it by feed.

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32mentions?
11HN people?
2010–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Lee Munroe's post on Steve Jobs taking a calligraphy class as an example of how that course shaped Jobs and the design of the Macintosh. The comments cite it as support rather than judging the writing.

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.

Design, engineering, and product. Leading design and product teams, making email, messaging and developer tools.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How To Validate A Feature Idea In 5 Minutes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-06
  2. Tools to guide your design decisions
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-07
  3. Things I've learned building and coding HTML email templates
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-10
  4. /steve-jobs-calligraphy/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. Yes. Jobs famously took a calligraphy class at Reed college, and mentioned frequently how it influenced him and e.g. the design of the Macintosh. http://www.leemunroe.com/steve-jobs-calligraphy/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-tribute-to-a-gr...

    Comment linking /steve-jobs-calligraphy/

    on “Apple and LaTeX”
  2. Submitted Things I've learned building and coding HTML email templates as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. one example: "Steve Jobs on Taking a Calligraphy Class" https://www.leemunroe.com/steve-jobs-calligraphy/

    Comment linking /steve-jobs-calligraphy/

    on “Ask HN: Anyone learned art (drawing, caricature etc.) as an adult?”
  4. Submitted Checking Your Site For Visual Hierarchy as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. Why not do both? Negotiate a part-time role with the mainstream company, work around your class schedule. The boss surely wouldn't want to feel guilty that he kept you from completing a degree. College value can be difficult to calculate. A good campus environment can expose you to some wonderfully random, useful people and ideas found nowhere else. The Steve Jobs calligraphy story is a classic example> http://www.l…

    Comment linking /steve-jobs-calligraphy/

    on “Ask HN: Is college even worth it if you're worth your salt as a programmer?”
  6. Submitted How HTML5 element names were decided as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. [1] http://www.leemunroe.com/email-design-workflow/

    Comment linking /email-design-workflow/

    on “Ask HN: What's your email design/development workflow like?”
  8. Submitted Beginners Guide to Sending Email for Web Designers and Developers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Show HN: Motherplate - A Bare Bones HTML5 CSS3 SCSS Responsive Boilerplate as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How To Validate A Feature Idea In 5 Minutes as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Lessons Learned from Responsive Email Design as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted How to set up a .io domain on Heroku as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Designing for high resolution Retina displays as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Designing Better Web Type With Typecast as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted CSS3 Animated Loading Bar as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Tools to guide your design decisions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Tools That Help Inform Design Decisions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Things I've Learned About Building and Coding HTML Email Templates as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Rapid User Research with Intercom, PowWow and GoToMeeting as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted What Developers Should Know About Sending Email as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted The Tools I Use For Web Design as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Validate a feature idea in 5 minutes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Designing for high-resolution Retina displays as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Why Icon Fonts Are Awesome as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted How To Design A Parallax Recruiting Page as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Great user experience with gradual engagement sign ups as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted How to get great user feedback as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted The benefits of interactive prototypes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted How to improve copy for a better user experience as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Going from adaptive to fully responsive as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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