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Paul Duncan
Personal blog · pablotron.orgprogrammingsystemsweb
Paul Duncan's personal blog at pablotron.org covers programming, systems and web. Since 2008, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “PersistJS: Cross Browser Client-Side Persistent Storage Without Cookies”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Duncan's posts on client-side storage libraries such as PersistJS, the wirble IRB colouring tool, and the OSI 'seven layer burrito' joke. Most comments cite them as references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Paul Duncan's technical site.
Most-linked posts?
- PersistJS: Cross Browser Client-Side Persistent Storage Without Cookies4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2008-05-22
- To hell with the OSI 7 Layer Model 3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-05
- Don't Use ExtJS2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-05-16
What Hacker News says?
OSI? Really? http://pablotron.org/files/7_layer_burrito.html
Comment linking /files/7_layer_burrito.html
on “Sshuttle - tunnel all your traffic through ssh”Submitted PersistJS: Cross Browser Client-Side Persistent Storage Without Cookies as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIn the past I have used PersistJS ( http://pablotron.org/?cid=1557 ) for this. Are there reasons to prefer one or the other of these libraries?
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on “Store.js - cross browser local storage without using cookies or flash”Submitted GitHub Enshittification as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHave you considered adding support for additional persistence layers? http://pablotron.org/?cid=1557 This guy claims to have unified quite a number of them, I have not tested it.
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on “JQuery offline released”Submitted Tiny Binaries (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI can never see the term OSI an not think of this classic. It gave me and friends a good laugh back in the day ;p (original site down but this is a mirror) http://pablotron.org/files/7_layer_burrito.html
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on “OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t”Submitted Don't Use ExtJS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionApart from 'irb/completion' I use 'wirble' [1] for colour highlighting of the output in Ruby/IRB [1]. I had to modify it to get it to work with Ruby 1.9 though [2]. I don't think anybody has done syntax highlighting for input. [1] http://pablotron.org/?cid=28 [2] http://www.wedesoft.demon.co.uk/downloads/wirble.rb
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on “DreamPie: The Python shell you've always dreamed about”Submitted Fastest JavaScript HTML Escape as a story · 1 points
HN discussionthis biggest issues is the licensing with Sencha/Extjs vs jquery mobile. I would stick with jquery to be safe or understand your product and hopefully any future uses of your product. They had issues in the past. http://pablotron.org/?cid=1556 - old but relevant.
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on “JQuery Mobile Beta 1 Released | jQuery Mobile”Submitted To hell with the OSI 7 Layer Model as a story · 1 points
HN discussionalso: http://pablotron.org/software/wirble/
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on “Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter ”http://pablotron.org/?cid=1557 Pablotron persists to other "backends" for none html5 browsers: * flash: Flash 8 persistent storage. * gears: Google Gears-based persistent storage. * localstorage: HTML5 draft storage. * whatwg_db: HTML5 draft database storage. * globalstorage: HTML5 draft storage (old spec). * ie: Internet Explorer userdata behaviors. * cookie: Cookie-based persistent storage.
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on “Lawnchair: Client Side JSON Document Store”You might wanna read this: http://pablotron.org/?cid=1556 and this: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9878693-16.html
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on “SproutCore Presentation”When looking for the talk slides, I found http://pablotron.org/software/persist-js/ too. I haven't had a chance (or need) to use it yet.
Comment linking /software/persist-js/
on “Clear cookies/reset browser doesn't delete your Flash cookies”Related: https://pablotron.org/2022/03/02/tiny-binaries-redux/
Comment linking /2022/03/02/tiny-binaries-redux/
on “Tiny Binaries (2021)”
