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Paul O'Shannessy
Personal blog · blog.zpao.comprogrammingweb
Paul O'Shannessy writes ZPAO, a personal blog at blog.zpao.com about programming and web. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “V8Monkey: V8 API on top of SpiderMonkey so Node.js can run”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Paul O'Shannessy's posts on Mozilla's SpiderMonkey and V8monkey as a Node.js-compatible JS engine, and on installing Flash plug-ins. Cited for context on JS engines and Flash.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- V8Monkey: V8 API on top of SpiderMonkey so Node.js can run3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-15
What Hacker News says?
webOS solved this by enabling apps to also ship Node.js code that would be able to run as background services. https://developer.palm.com/content/api/dev-guide/js-services... Given that Mozilla already made their JS engine emulate Node.js ( http://blog.zpao.com/post/4620873765/about-that-hybrid-v8mon... ), it might not be so far-fetched to think that something similar could be done with B2G.
Comment linking /post/4620873765/about-that-hybrid-v8monkey-engine
on “Open Web Device”Submitted Node.js on mozilla spidermonkey as a story · 61 points
HN discussion> Installing a plug-in as nearly the equivalent to jail > time, a horrendous chore. That's because that's what it generally has been, in the case of Flash. You may want to read http://blog.zpao.com/post/538816688/how-to-install-flash-on-... if you haven't had that particular "pleasure"...
Comment linking /post/538816688/how-to-install-flash-on-windows-or-a-cleveland-steamer
on “Very impressive CSS3 demo: CSS3 Planetarium”Submitted SpiderNode at NodeConf 2011 as a story · 12 points
HN discussion> The V8 team is thinking of adding yield/defer support to make programming in Node neater. There's hope yet. There is SpiderNode, not sure what the status of it is, but it replaces V8 in node.js with SpiderMonkey. SpiderMonkey already has yield and much other new JS syntactic sugar. http://blog.zpao.com/post/4620873765/about-that-hybrid-v8mon...
Comment linking /post/4620873765/about-that-hybrid-v8monkey-engine
on “Node.js - A Giant Step Backwards”Submitted V8Monkey: V8 API on top of SpiderMonkey so Node.js can run as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted This is Bad Recruiting as a story · 1 points
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