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Michael Heilemann

Personal blog · binarybonsai.comdesignculture

Michael Heilemann's personal blog at binarybonsai.com covers design and culture. Since 2009, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Lessons of the Chewbacca Incident”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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18mentions?
15HN people?
2009–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for a post on the statistics behind the Chewbacca Incident and a post on why content distracts users from ads, including how long-form reading behaves. Commenters cite them without judging them.

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.

Home to Michael Heilemann, VP, Principal Designer at Squarespace.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Lessons of the Chewbacca Incident
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-09-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. jdietrich · 2010-10-03
    I agree with you to an extent - we certainly fall for most of the same psychological tricks. We are also clearly exceptional as a demographic. We are dramatically better educated and more literate than the mean. We're mostly male, whereas the internet is now a female majority population[1]. There is evidence to show that we behave very differently when presented with long-form content[2]. While I'm perfectly prepare…

    Comment linking /2010/09/27/chewie-stats/

    on “Your content is distracting users from ads”
  2. julian37 · 2010-09-28

    Submitted Lessons of the Chewbacca Incident as a story · 86 points

    HN discussion
  3. jasonlotito · 2010-09-28
    Link directly to the article: http://binarybonsai.com/2010/09/27/chewie-stats/

    Comment linking /2010/09/27/chewie-stats/

    on “Lessons of the Chewbacca Incident”
  4. ugh · 2010-09-12

    Submitted Writing on the iPad: A Story of Love, Heartache & Infuriating Bugs as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  5. chip · 2010-09-22

    Submitted George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It's Okay as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  6. aresant · 2010-09-28

    Submitted Michael Heilemann's analysis of user behavior by blog as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. co_pl_te · 2013-06-18

    Submitted How it looks and feels is supposed to tell you how it works as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. duck · 2010-09-29

    Submitted #NewTwitter simply too crowded? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. blasdel · 2009-11-28

    Submitted An Acrobat Scripting Rant as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. blasdel · 2009-07-29

    Submitted Vol Libre - a CG animated short from SIGGRAPH 1980 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. shawndumas · 2013-06-19

    Submitted The Amazon Doctrine as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. TheBurningOr · 2012-01-23

    Submitted Hollywood's Setting Sun as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. blasdel · 2010-09-08

    Submitted Writing on the iPad: A Story of Love, Heartache & Infuriating Bugs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. FireBeyond · 2013-06-19

    Submitted Circles (an opinion on iOS 7's signal strength meter) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. superchink · 2013-06-18

    Submitted Action or State? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. ugh · 2010-10-25

    Submitted The Blackberry Playbook and Our Natural Predators as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. mgunes · 2010-09-13

    Submitted Romancing The User as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. zephyrfalcon · 2010-04-16

    Submitted The tortured indecision as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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