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Max Ogden
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Max Ogden's personal blog at maxogden.com covers programming and web. Since 2011, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Kindleberry Wireless: A Portable Outdoor Hackstation”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Max Ogden's posts on mobile web app performance (WebView optimizations) and his Kindle-as-Raspberry-Pi wireless display project. Most comments just share the links.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Kindleberry Wireless: A Portable Outdoor Hackstation4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-03-25
- Fast WebView Applications2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-31
- Kindleberry: A Portable Outdoor Hackstation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-27
- Introducing RequireBin, Browserify-CDN and npmsearch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-09
What Hacker News says?
Here are the ones in my reader, admittedly I haven't visited often enough over the past couple of months: http://www.igvita.com/ http://ejohn.org/ http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/ (Denny covers assembly and networking issues often in great detail) http://buhrmi.tumblr.com/ http://elegantcode.com/ http://72lions.com/ http://kellabyte.com/ (mobile-ish dev) http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://ihumanable.com/blog htt…
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on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”Submitted Bringing Minecraft-style games to the Open Web as a story · 84 points
HN discussionCheck out using the Kindle as a raspberry pi display: http://ponnuki.net/2012/09/kindleberry-pi/ https://maxogden.com/kindleberry-wireless.html
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on “ESP8266 ePaper WiFi Display Kit Runs for Months on a Charge”Submitted Node Streams: How do they work? as a story · 72 points
HN discussionPretty neat. I still like the concept of the kindleberry a bit better though: http://maxogden.com/kindleberry-wireless.html
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on “How to create a handheld Linux terminal”Submitted Kindleberry Wireless: A Portable Outdoor Hackstation as a story · 50 points
HN discussionMax Ogden also did a great write up on Web View optimizations. http://maxogden.com/fast-webview-applications
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on “How to get that native iOS feel with PhoneGap”Submitted Gigabit Fiber in Portland as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI just had this light bulb moment about separating the writing and editing processes a few weeks ago. I am grad student and writing is an essential part of my job. I am not as good as I would like to be, but writing first and editing later removed a lot of mental load for me. I experimented with a couple of systems in the past, but always got paralyzed by my inner critic commenting on every sentence. It was exhausti…
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on “What Is the Morning Writing Effect? (2011)”Submitted Fast WebView Applications as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCouchbase now includes the GeoCouch R-tree indexer by default: http://blog.couchbase.com/new-release-geocouch-extension This is the same indexer that is powering open gov't projects around the world: http://maxogden.com/#blog/diy-open-data-catalog
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on “SimpleGeo To Be Acquired By Urban Airship”Submitted Introducing RequireBin, Browserify-CDN and npmsearch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionImportant topic. Here is an in depth look at touch vs click, how to sprite images, etc http://maxogden.com/fast-webview-applications.html Also I think local data and avoiding network round trips is key to reliable consistent high performance. This is why we built Couchbase Lite for mobile. https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios
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on “Performance and UX Considerations For Successful PhoneGap Apps”Submitted Scraping with Node as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYeah thin clients [0] make a lot of sense with this kind of workflow. If you only really need text, living in the terminal and browser, it might make sense to use eink for eye comfiness and outdoor readability, something like this hack: https://maxogden.com/kindleberry-wireless . Or one of those eink android tablets. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client
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on “Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone”Submitted Kindleberry: A Portable Outdoor Hackstation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Kindle as a screen as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NPM - Node Packaged Modules for client-side dev with BrowserifyCDN + RequireBin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to actually wrap a web app with PhoneGap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tessel Powered Plant Watering System by Max Ogden as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast Webview Applications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Little coders as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mobile crowdsourcing interfaces as a story · 1 points
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