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Michael Mahemoff
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Michael Mahemoff writes Software As She's Developed, a personal blog at softwareas.com about programming and web. Since 2007, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Is this what the App of 2015 looks like? HTML5 + CoffeeScript + Less…”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Michael Mahemoff's posts as support for points about offline HTML files with embedded sound and about watch-it-later video tools. Readers mostly cite the posts rather than discuss 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.
Technology, Programming, Startups, Trendspotting by Michael Mahemoff
Most-linked posts?
- Is this what the App of 2015 looks like? HTML5 + CoffeeScript + Less…2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-10
What Hacker News says?
I wrote up some ideas on best practices for unsubscription recently, after trawling through my inbox to clear the clutter. http://softwareas.com/best-practices-for-mailing-list-unsubs... If you're doing one-click unsubscribe, a smart practice is showing a message with other ways to stay engaged, e.g. Twitter ... and providing a one-click undo (ie re-subscribe).
Comment linking /best-practices-for-mailing-list-unsubscription
on “I Want To Unsubscribe, Not "Manage My Preferences"”Submitted Dogfooding considered solipsistic as a story · 12 points
HN discussionAlthough a lot of pathnames match across US-UK, I don't think they've fully harmonised all the IDs or have any efficient way to tell which ones actually match. So apparently they're just playing safe by redirecting to homepage. I'm not surprised as even those geo-targeted "Continue shopping" messages are fairly recent. I once wrote a Teleporter script to switch between Amazons ( http://softwareas.com/domain-teleport…
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on “Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00”Submitted Is this what the App of 2015 looks like? HTML5 + CoffeeScript + Less… as a story · 9 points
HN discussionAnd if you put the URL into a URL shortener, you can (ab)use it as cloud storage for your spreadsheet. I once did some checks and found at least one shortener could store a URL string of at least 65KB [1]. That was in 2009. Not sure where those shortener limits are all at today - I suspect the industry dynamics changed when Twitter introduced its built-in shortener. 1. https://softwareas.com/the-url-shortener-as-a-c…
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on “Tinysheet”Submitted “But we have ping pong tables” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI looked at URL shortener limits some time ago and found these approximate limits by trial-and-error: * TinyURL 65,536 characters and probably more, but requests timed out; there isn’t an explicit limit apparently * Bit.ly 2000 characters. * Is.Gd 2000 characters. * Twurl.nl 255 characters. This was 2.5 years ago, not sure how much of these have changed (other than bit.ly, which the linked article confirms is 2048,…
Comment linking /the-url-shortener-as-a-cloud-database
on “Hashify: what becomes possible when one is able to store documents in URLs?”Submitted Don't API all the things as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI found a while ago most shorteners seem to limit at 2000 characters too, like the de facto browser standard mentioned on SO. http://softwareas.com/the-url-shortener-as-a-cloud-database
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on “Shortly: a Serverless Pastebin Service - All Data is Stored in the URL”Submitted Horizontally scaling databases: MySQL/Postgres Sharding as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFirstly, I didn't think HN would allow ▶ in the title, so congrats on the "new Rickroll" effort. Hope it doesn't get banned tomorrow :). (Google in fact strips the fun characters from SERP titles.) [Edit - and it's already gone in the time it took to write this] I've been using this pattern on http://player.fm for some time now. I agree it's best to just "use the force" of the DOM and base the title symbol on the ac…
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on “Adding an audio play indicator to your page's tab with JavaScript”Submitted 18 New Ajax Programming Patterns as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>html + js doesn't have a standard way to be shared outside a website. Sure it does, just send an .html file. With the <script> and <style> tags and data: URIs to embed images, what more do you need? Hell, you can even distribute sound: http://softwareas.com/offline-sound-no-flash-no-file
Comment linking /offline-sound-no-flash-no-file
on “Wolfram Launches a New Computable Document Format”Submitted Why my Nexus is fantastic and why my next phone won't be a Nexus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnything similiar for the Android device available? Edit: Also, for a nice rundown: http://softwareas.com/watch-it-later-a-comprehensive-review-...
Comment linking /watch-it-later-a-comprehensive-review-of-four-instapaper-for-video-apps
on “Radbox.me: Instapaper for Video”Submitted Amazon’s Pure CSS Solution to Avoid Cutting Off Text as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Delegation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML5 App Themes Are Coming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three New IT Job Titles at Tipping Point as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developer Advocate at Google: I, Xoogler as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have progressive web apps have leapfrogged the native install model? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lightweight vs. heavyweight frameworks – which kneecap do I want to be shot in as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Server-Side Rendering of Single Page Apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How HTTP Libraries Should Support Redirects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Key-based cache expiry: A developer's primer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitten By Significant Whitespace as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten Moments that Changed the Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Abstraction begets fragmentation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boot2Gecko for HTML5 Developers: Mozilla Interview as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is this what the App of 2015 looks like? as a story · 1 points
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