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Max Goodhart
Personal blog · chromakode.comprogrammingdesign
Max Goodhart writes chromakode, a personal blog at chromakode.com about programming and design. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Checkbox”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as the write-up for a JavaScript Morse-code April Fool's xkcd checkbox, and for a slide deck where the code appears.
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.
Max Goodhart's personal journal and sketchbook.
Most-linked posts?
- Checkbox2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-02
- Development notes from Xkcd’s “Gravity” and “Escape Speed”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-16
- Disaster Recovery with ZFS and Zrepl2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-09
What Hacker News says?
I replicate my entire filesystem to a local NAS every 10 minutes using zrepl. This has already saved my bacon once when a WD_BLACK SN850 suddenly died on me [1]. It's also recovered code from some classic git blunders. It shouldn't be possible any more to lose data to user error or single device failure. We have the technology. [1]: https://chromakode.com/post/zfs-recovery-with-zrepl/
Comment linking /post/zfs-recovery-with-zrepl/
on “ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion”Submitted Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine" as a story · 754 points
HN discussionHere's the writeup on this: https://chromakode.com/post/checkbox
Comment linking /post/checkbox
on “JavaScript for Xkcd April Fool's written in Morse code”Submitted Notes on XKCD's “Pixels” as a story · 233 points
HN discussionA couple years ago we made a Morse Code chatbot for an xkcd April fool's comic [1]. I learned a lot about the UX of Morse input. It can be tricky for folks new to Morse to have consistent timing around dots and dashes. Displaying the dot immediately, and transforming into a dash after the requisite delay makes a big difference because it teaches the tempo expected. I was pleased to see a similar preview in the input…
Comment linking /post/checkbox/
on “Morse Code Chat”Submitted Backing up 18 years in 8 hours as a story · 186 points
HN discussionThe code starts around this slide: http://www.chromakode.com/misc/waves/pow.html#34
Comment linking /misc/waves/pow.html
on a deleted threadSubmitted Checkbox as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disaster Recovery with ZFS and Zrepl as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted An uncompromising guide to sleep masks (for side-sleepers) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Development notes from Xkcd’s “Gravity” and “Escape Speed” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: I turned my MRI into a 3D hologram for Looking Glass as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code behind Xkcd checkbox April 1 '21 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharing early work is not a distraction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Development notes from xkcd's “Gravity” and “Escape Speed” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The rise of self-hosted apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Impressions Using Astro as a story · 1 points
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