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Pqina
Company blog · pqina.nl/blogwebdesign
Pqina is the company blog at pqina.nl, writing about web and design. Since 2018, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Easy File Uploading with JavaScript – FilePond”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link pqina.nl for its JavaScript products and their pages: the FilePond upload library, Pintura image editor and Doka. The comments discuss the products, not the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Designs and builds performant, responsive, and highly polished web components.
Most-linked posts?
- Easy File Uploading with JavaScript – FilePond4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-03-05
- Show HN: Doka – A JavaScript Image Editor for Your Website3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-11-27
- Compress an image and save it back to a file input with JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-03
- Cropping Images to a Specific Aspect Ratio with JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-31
What Hacker News says?
You're trying to charge people money for this? $1999 per year for unrestricted access? You can't be serious? https://pqina.nl/doka/#pricing
Comment linking /doka/
on “Show HN: I built an online image editor using WebGL and CSS transforms”Submitted Show HN: I built an online image editor using WebGL and CSS transforms as a story · 425 points
HN discussionHow typical of PWAs that even a demonstration site, which should demonstrate the best that PWAs can be, has a glaring UX bug on iOS. Namely: if you swipe from the sides of the screen to go back/forward, you get a duplicate animation. If you swipe back from B to A, once the native (interactive) slide animation finishes, the page then jumps back to B and then does another (noninteractive) slide animation to A. Fixing…
Comment linking /blog/blocking-navigation-gestures-on-ios-13-4/
on “What PWA Can Do Today”Submitted Show HN: Doka – A JavaScript Image Editor for Your Website as a story · 11 points
HN discussionthere are several web based image editors leveraging webgl out there. Some of them are very good such as https://img.ly/products/photo-sdk or https://www.polarr.com/web/ or https://pqina.nl/pintura/ I hope to match some of them in terms of features, but with a lightweight and opensource solution
Comment linking /pintura/
on “Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction”Submitted Show HN: FilePond.js – Animated, extendable, vanilla JavaScript file upload library as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhttps://doka.photo/ an browser based image editor and https://pqina.nl/doka/ the editor component doka.photo is based on. Disclaimer: I'm the developer behind these tools :)
Comment linking /doka/
on “Ask HN: Coolest/most useful tools implemented in browser?”Submitted Using Web Bluetooth To Read BBQ Temperature Sensor Data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOpenrefine is for data wrangling. I want js library like filepond [1]. [1]: https://pqina.nl/filepond/
Comment linking /filepond/
on “Ask HN: How would you build a Excel file uploader with inline preview?”Submitted The Canvas API on Safari is broken as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Doka.js – A vanilla JavaScript image editor as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cropping Images to a Specific Aspect Ratio with JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Animating CSS Width and Height Without the Performance Penalty as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing Googlebot random mobile usability issue reports with CSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flipping Images with CSS and/or JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy File Uploading with JavaScript – FilePond as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted FilePond: A JavaScript library that can upload anything you throw at it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doka: A JavaScript Image Editor for Your Website as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Animating a dialog element using the View Transition API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating color variations with CSS Custom Properties as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compress an Image Before Upload with JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compress an image and save it back to a file input with JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using DataTransfer to set the value of a file input with JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cropping Images to a Specific Aspect Ratio with JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy File Uploading with JavaScript – FilePond as a story · 1 points
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