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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.

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23mentions?
19HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2012

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?

  1. Kindleberry Wireless: A Portable Outdoor Hackstation
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-03-25
  2. Fast WebView Applications
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-31
  3. Kindleberry: A Portable Outdoor Hackstation
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-27
  4. Introducing RequireBin, Browserify-CDN and npmsearch
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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?”
  2. Submitted Bringing Minecraft-style games to the Open Web as a story · 84 points

    HN discussion
  3. Check out using the Kindle as a raspberry pi display: http://ponnuki.net/2012/09/kindleberry-pi/ https://maxogden.com/kindleberry-wireless.html

    Comment linking /kindleberry-wireless.html

    on “ESP8266 ePaper WiFi Display Kit Runs for Months on a Charge”
  4. Submitted Node Streams: How do they work? as a story · 72 points

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  5. Pretty neat. I still like the concept of the kindleberry a bit better though: http://maxogden.com/kindleberry-wireless.html

    Comment linking /kindleberry-wireless.html

    on “How to create a handheld Linux terminal”
  6. Submitted Kindleberry Wireless: A Portable Outdoor Hackstation as a story · 50 points

    HN discussion
  7. taterbase · 2012-09-02Recommends
    Max Ogden also did a great write up on Web View optimizations. http://maxogden.com/fast-webview-applications

    Comment linking /fast-webview-applications

    on “How to get that native iOS feel with PhoneGap”
  8. Submitted Gigabit Fiber in Portland as a story · 5 points

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  9. I 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…

    Comment linking /kindleberry-wireless.html

    on “What Is the Morning Writing Effect? (2011)”
  10. Submitted Fast WebView Applications as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Couchbase 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”
  12. Submitted Introducing RequireBin, Browserify-CDN and npmsearch as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Important 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

    Comment linking /fast-webview-applications.html

    on “Performance and UX Considerations For Successful PhoneGap Apps”
  14. Submitted Scraping with Node as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Yeah 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

    Comment linking /kindleberry-wireless

    on “Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone”
  16. Submitted Kindleberry: A Portable Outdoor Hackstation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Using Kindle as a screen as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted NPM - Node Packaged Modules for client-side dev with BrowserifyCDN + RequireBin as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted How to actually wrap a web app with PhoneGap as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Tessel Powered Plant Watering System by Max Ogden as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Fast Webview Applications as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Little coders as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Mobile crowdsourcing interfaces as a story · 1 points

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