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Max Voltar
Personal blog · maxvoltar.com/archivedesignculture
Max Voltar's personal blog at maxvoltar.com covers design and culture. Since 2008, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “WebKit Font Smoothing”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal site of designer Tim Van Damme, linked in HN threads on web design and CSS, such as font smoothing and custom scrollbars, and cited as an example of a designer's career path.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The non-work.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-10-25
- WebKit Font Smoothing4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-05-28
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-18
What Hacker News says?
Even worse (or probably related) than the general contrast problem is the absolutely crazy suggestion to use -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; in your CSS ( http://maxvoltar.com/archive/-webkit-font-smoothing ) I've yet to come across an instance where antialiased is better than using subpixel hinting. In addition, I think it's crazy that the browser would allow a site designer to alter such a highly OS- or even…
Comment linking /archive/-webkit-font-smoothing
on “Webdesigners: please make text readable”Submitted Living the freelance life while keeping your sanity as a story · 34 points
HN discussionThat's Tim Van Damme's scrollbar: http://maxvoltar.com/
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on “Holla - An open source Campfire”Submitted Dreaming of an Apple Tablet as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThis is considered good design? I'm having a bit of trouble reading it. http://maxvoltar.com/
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on “Why Can't Startups Find Designers?”Submitted -webkit-font-smoothing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe linked example, http://maxvoltar.com , works fine for me for the spacebar and pagedown. I'm using Chrome beta build.
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on “Custom Scrollbars in WebKit”Submitted Goodbye Gowalla as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI was reading it thinking the same thing, but the scrollbars on http://maxvoltar.com/ actually look and work nicely.
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on “Custom Scrollbars in WebKit”Submitted Maxvoltar - A huge opportunity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhy do people write articles like this that depend on visuals without any visuals to prove their point? For examples of how the three types of font-smoothing choices look, try this article: http://maxvoltar.com/archive/-webkit-font-smoothing
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on “CSS3 Font Smoothing”Submitted WebKit Font Smoothing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGo out on the wild and get some inspirations: Dan Cederholm: http://simplebits.com Spencer Fry: http://spencerfry.com Mike Rundle: http://flyosity.com Sam Brown: http://sam.brown.tc Matt Mullenweg: http://ma.tt Tim Van Damme: http://maxvoltar.com Meagan Fisher: http://owltastic.com Adii Pienaar: http://adiirockstar.com
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on “Ask HN: When designing a personal site, how to get through creative-block?”Submitted We’re all mathematicians as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> 1. Like I said I'm from Europe, unfortunately I do not have a green card. However, I think that if you manage get a job at a company it is possible to move to US and work even without a proper degree. For instance, Tim Van Damme ( http://maxvoltar.com/ ) moved from Belgium to work for Gowalla as a designer and from what I remember reading I don't think he even graduated high school. Interesting. So the only way a…
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on “Ask HN: Would college be a waste of time in my case?”1. Like I said I'm from Europe, unfortunately I do not have a green card. However, I think that if you manage get a job at a company it is possible to move to US and work even without a proper degree. For instance, Tim Van Damme ( http://maxvoltar.com/ ) moved from Belgium to work for Gowalla as a designer and from what I remember reading I don't think he even graduated high school. 2. I'm still trying to decide whe…
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on “Ask HN: Would college be a waste of time in my case?”
