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Paddy Donnelly
Personal blog · iampaddy.comdesignwriting
Paddy Donnelly's personal blog at iampaddy.com covers design and writing. Since 2009, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Life Below 600px”. 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
HN readers link Paddy Donnelly's short posts on web design and writing, such as 'Life Below 600px' on the above-the-fold myth and a post on common spelling errors. One commenter says the few posts are quality.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Life Below 600px6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-02-02
- Learn To F***ing Spell4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-12-11
- It needs to 'Pop'2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-01
What Hacker News says?
Oh god. "there", "they're" and "their" are completely different words with different meanings. http://iampaddy.com/spell/
Comment linking /spell/
on “Why I'm switching back to Firefox”Submitted Life Below 600px as a story · 232 points
HN discussionThis is making the arguments based on only things "above the fold". There are plenty of people that have dispelled the myth that content NEEDS to be above the fold (1)(2). That said, the implication with Google results is that the higher up on the page the link is, the more relevant that link is to a user's search. In my experience, very few people ever get to the second page of Google Search results. I'm all but ce…
Comment linking /lifebelow600/
on “How Google is Killing Organic Search”Submitted Life Below 600 Pixels as a story · 135 points
HN discussionAbove the fold has been wrong and deprecated for about 5 years now: http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/ http://uxmyths.com/post/654047943/myth-people-dont-scroll http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/analytics-testing/w...
Comment linking /lifebelow600/
on “Koa – Next-generation web framework for Node.js”Submitted Life Below 600px as a story · 121 points
HN discussiontenets :) (sorry, I just finished reading the OP’s other article, http://iampaddy.com/spell/ and couldn’t help myself)
Comment linking /spell/
on “Life Below 600px”Submitted Four pixels or less as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThere are tradeoffs involved in having some important material below the fold, but I don't think it's universally a bad idea. http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/
Comment linking /lifebelow600/
on “What's that?”Submitted Learn To F***ing Spell as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe large amount of grammar and spelling errors make me question if the author is at all interested in a "real serious business". And WTF is up with the horrendous comma usage? It's similar on his Nautilus6 and LinkedIn websites, too. Also, how precisely did temporary downtimes prevent deploys? At best, it appears they would've been delayed by a couple hours, and the great part about Git is that you can work around…
Comment linking /spell/
on “Bye Bye Github”Submitted It needs to 'Pop' as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEver seen http://iampaddy.com ? I like this site because: there are very few posts; all of them are quality; the design is engaging; it is very easy to follow the author on twitter; reading each article takes little time. Looking at your blog then you have experiences, observations and advice to offer which could be valuable. Why not write one topic bi-weekly or monthly which focuses on a single theme, re-using your…
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on “Ask HN: Please help a virgin blogger.”Submitted The Importance of Doodling as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"It's a good start...I think we're almost there, but...It needs to Pop" ( http://iampaddy.com/pop/ )
Comment linking /pop/
on “A web design masterpiece.....from hell.”I don't think the whole "above the fold" mentality is as relevant now as it was a few years ago. Monitors are bigger, and people are used to scrolling up and down a page. Sure, there should be something above the fold to entice the user to scroll, but to keep your content above the fold is just asking for a cluttered design. You're scrolling now, aren't you? :-) See http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/
Comment linking /lifebelow600/
on “An Easy Way to Improve User Experience”
