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Nutrition Facts for Matt's Homepage

Personal blog · glyphobet.net/blog · on HN as glyphobetprogramming

Nutrition Facts for Matt's Homepage is a personal blog at glyphobet.net about programming. Since 2008, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “What reading Tufte won’t teach you: Interface design guidelines”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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13mentions?
7HN people?
2008–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2008

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

Why HN links it

Linked for a concentric-circle Berlin rapid transit map drawn by the author's friend, and a short blog blurb about Google Wave. Comments cite the links without judging the writing.

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.

The author on HN?

glyphobet · 195 karma · member since 2008

http://glyphobet.net https://twitter.com/glyphobet https://github.com/glyphobet http://www.redbubble.com/people/glyphobet http://www.flickr.com/photos/glyphobet http://www.shapeways.com/shops/glyphobet http://typophile.com/user/17008/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. What reading Tufte won’t teach you: Interface design guidelines
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-08-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. wheels · 2019-04-09
    A very different Berlin metro map, based on concentric circles, drawn by a good friend of mine (and old housemate): https://glyphobet.net/rundumberlin/ It makes much less of an attempt to correlate with actual geography, but is faster to find connections on.

    Comment linking /rundumberlin/

    on “Unofficial new Berlin rapid transit route map”
  2. glyphobet · 2008-04-07

    Submitted Ruby's not ready as a story · 54 points

    HN discussion
  3. glyphobet · 2008-04-27
    There's a third flavor of FFM: http://glyphobet.net/blog/essay/234

    Comment linking /blog/essay/234

    on “The OSX Focus-Follows-Mouse Debate”
  4. nickb · 2008-03-15

    Submitted Why your Flash website sucks as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  5. zecg · 2009-11-13
    It's not for you: http://glyphobet.net/blog/blurb/1170

    Comment linking /blog/blurb/1170

    on “Dear Google, who I am supposed to use google wave with?”
  6. glyphobet · 2009-04-22

    Submitted Ignore your users’ needs. Call them stupid instead. as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  7. danw · 2008-08-30

    Submitted What reading Tufte won’t teach you: Interface design guidelines as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. blasdel · 2010-06-14

    Submitted Grasping the nuclear fourth rail of Python syntax with both hands as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. glyphobet · 2009-01-16

    Submitted Eight Python warts as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. glyphobet · 2008-08-11

    Submitted What reading Tufte won’t teach you: Interface design guidelines as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. glyphobet · 2008-05-22

    Submitted Why RedBubble kicks ass as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. inklesspen · 2008-04-11

    Submitted Ruby’s not ready: comments, corrections, and clarifications - glyphobet • глыфобет • γλυφοβετ as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. glyphobet · 2008-03-18

    Submitted The two ugly faces of HTML generation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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