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MellowMorning

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MellowMorning is a personal blog at mellowmorning.com about startups and programming. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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2008–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only comment is about browser performance when moving about 1500 divs, and it links Chrome developer tools docs without assessing the writing. The linked posts seem to cover front-end UI performance.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. I completely disagree, my company (Fashiolista) advertises almost exclusively on Facebook. The results are great. My reasoning why Facebook works so well can be found here: http://www.mellowmorning.com/2011/09/21/5-ways-in-which-face...

    Comment linking /2011/09/21/5-ways-in-which-facebook-redefines-online-marketing/

    on “Who 'likes' my Virtual Bagels?”
  2. Submitted Django vs Symfony as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Re: moving divs: this is probably not what you want to do. Re: performance, check out the Chrome developer tools for info on the redraws / re-paints; this is where your performance hit likely is. Pre-rendering to an off-screen canvas may help here, but I'm definitely no UI / UX expert. Check these out too: Chrome dev tools primer: https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/ Getting dirty with chrome dev to…

    Comment linking /2008/05/18/javascript-optimization-high-performance-js-apps/

    on “Ask HN: How to handle more than 1500 moving divs?”
  4. Submitted Build a scalable feed using Feedly and Django as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Performance metrics for a social network as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Creating your own Digg/Facebook/Tweetmeme button as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Django Facebook custom user model support as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Django query set iterator - for really large, querysets as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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