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Ramblings of a Madman
Personal blog · flailingmonkey.comprogrammingweb
Ramblings of a Madman is a personal blog at flailingmonkey.com about programming and web. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “View JQuery and JQuery Live Events in Firefox Developer Tools”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its history of Firebug, the browser debugging extension, and how it grew out of Mozilla's extensions ecosystem. Posts also cover Firefox and jQuery event tooling.
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.
General Ramblings About all things JavaScript and Browser Developer Tools
Most-linked posts?
- View JQuery and JQuery Live Events in Firefox Developer Tools2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-28
What Hacker News says?
Firebug was some truly excellent work - but I think it's worth also mentionining its precursor Venkman - which in turn built upon the js/jsd low-level debugging APIs inside the mozilla suite. https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/ edit: there's a nice write-up of how firebug got started here https://flailingmonkey.com/the-history-of-firebug
Comment linking /the-history-of-firebug
on “Thank You, Firebug (2017)”Submitted Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google as a story · 131 points
HN discussionDidn't the change the introspect jQuery event structures land recently? Is this in FF33? http://flailingmonkey.com/view-jquery-and-jquery-live-events...
Comment linking /view-jquery-and-jquery-live-events-in-firefox-devtools/
on “Firefox 33”Submitted I Switched from Firefox to Brave After 21 Years as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIt depend on what you mean by "integrate". Mozilla/Firefox had the extensions ecosystem that produced a bunch of interesting tools, which eventually crystallized as Firebug: http://flailingmonkey.com/the-history-of-firebug
Comment linking /the-history-of-firebug
on “Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more”Submitted View DOM events in Firefox Developer Tools as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to install Django on JustHost (and maybe other shared hosts) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging Thunderbird using Firefox Developer Tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The History of Firebug as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The application cache is no longer a douchebag as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is it like to work as an engineer at Mozilla? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing a VPN from the Linux CLI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted View JQuery and JQuery Live Events in Firefox Developer Tools as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hack your family: Adopt a child as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How should the Firefox Developer Tools Highlighter look and act? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is it awesome to work at Mozilla? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bugzilla Tips, Hacks and Etiquette as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The new Firefox Developer Tools API as a story · 1 points
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