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Remy Sharp
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Remy Sharp writes remy sharp's b:log, a personal blog at remysharp.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 111 different Hacker News readers have linked it 159 times, most often “The toxic side of free. Or: how I lost the love for my side project”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (26) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Remy Sharp's blog mainly for his 2010 post defining the term "polyfill", and for his JSBin "toxic side of free" series and browser front-end notes such as position:fixed on iOS.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter says the JQuery API reference on the site is "good too"; no comment praises the polyfill post, which commenters cite as a definition.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 26 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
About [code] and all that jazz
Most-linked posts?
- The toxic side of free. Or: how I lost the love for my side project9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2015-09-17
- What is a Polyfill?6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-10-08
- CLI: Improved5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-08-24
- My Workflow: Never having to leave DevTools3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-21
- The toxic side of free. Or: how I lost the love for my side project (part 5)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-18
- The web didn't change; you did3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-11
- I know jQuery. Now what?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-19
- What is a poly fill (2010)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-17
- Audio Sprites2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-12-29
- Is jQuery still relevant?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-15
What Hacker News says?
https://remysharp.com/2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill
Comment linking /2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill
on “From Asm.js to WebAssembly”Submitted CLI: Improved as a story · 913 points
HN discussionSomething like this, but for all (standard) source files, not just JS. http://remysharp.com/2012/12/21/my-workflow-never-having-to-...
Comment linking /2012/12/21/my-workflow-never-having-to-leave-devtools/
on “Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?”Submitted The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side project (part 4) as a story · 418 points
HN discussion> Your startup idea was to host large amounts of copyrighted material for profit, without checking who had the rights to distribute that material? of course not don't be silly. but so far liability was on the uploader, when the police comes knocking you gave out user data and that was it. see, for example, the jsfiddle constant issue with illegal content: https://remysharp.com/2015/09/18/jsbin-toxic-part-5 people mi…
Comment linking /2015/09/18/jsbin-toxic-part-5
on “Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it”Submitted CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser as a story · 241 points
HN discussionThis is a really good question. It's funny, a little digging led me back to the same blog. https://remysharp.com/2014/12/30/vatmoss-proof I could see the location information being supplied using a Bitcoin service provider (Coinbase?), but whether it is accepted as "proof," is questionable.
Comment linking /2014/12/30/vatmoss-proof
on “The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side project (part 4)”Submitted 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling as a story · 131 points
HN discussionHe did (stripe): https://remysharp.com/images/jsbin-stripe-fraud.png
Comment linking /images/jsbin-stripe-fraud.png
on “The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side project (part 4)”Submitted The Art of Debugging as a story · 99 points
HN discussionI hadn't heard of the term polyfill before (despite having used them) ... just means providing browser specific code to patch the renderer for the lack of an otherwise supported feature. It was the first thing I searched for on-site, didn't leave me any the wiser. eg http://remysharp.com/2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill/
Comment linking /2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill/
on “Html5please”Submitted Unhooking from Amazon Ebooks as a story · 67 points
HN discussionhttps://remysharp.com/2020/11/30/please-disable-javascript-t...
Comment linking /2020/11/30/please-disable-javascript-to-view-this-site
on “Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners”Submitted Signs of a poorly written jQuery plugin as a story · 60 points
HN discussionhttp://yeoman.io/ tries to solve it... (like it mostly for its live reload feature) Here is another great example - http://remysharp.com/2012/12/21/my-workflow-never-having-to-... My two cents: find solutions... People who make tools are just like us, some empathy, accept what you cannot change :)
Comment linking /2012/12/21/my-workflow-never-having-to-leave-devtools/
on “Our web development workflow is completely broken”Submitted CERN day 2 as a story · 59 points
HN discussionWorse than taking up screen space, these bars often exhibit laggy scrolling behavior and cause other UI bugs. There are very few well working implementations of such fixed bars, partly due to difficulties like the position:fixed implementation in Mobile Safari[0] - unless that has been changed in iOS7. I highly recommend to refrain from using position:fixed on mobile devices. [0] http://remysharp.com/2012/05/24/issu…
Comment linking /2012/05/24/issues-with-position-fixed-scrolling-on-ios/
on “The Scroll Up Bar”Submitted CORS isn’t just for XHR as a story · 49 points
HN discussionWhy not, instead, show an ellipsis in place of the majority of the subdomain leading up to the domain and increase opacity of the domain compared to subdomains and the pathname. This is similar to what happens when the path is too long for the omnibox, but simply the effect of putting the domain as far left (in the omnibox) as possible. i.e. instead of seeing: [ www.mybank.com.credicards.wt3_segment_secure.login.htm…
Comment linking /2014/05/04/on-chrome-hiding-urls-to-protect-users-from-phishing/
on “Chrome's experiment of hiding the URL is great for security”Submitted Problems with Firebug as a story · 27 points
HN discussionInteresting to read about those fraudsters. Really annoying when you're a small business. I remember reading something similar from Gittip[0], and also mentioned on the linked blog post, jsbin[1]. I wonder what other small startups are using to detect / prevent this kind of fraud? Are there any good services in this space? and why won't recurly/stripe et al bundle this in? (or maybe they do, and I just don't know ab…
Comment linking /2015/09/17/jsbin-toxic-part-4
on “Candy Japan 2015 Year in Review”Submitted Predictably Random as a story · 24 points
HN discussionhttp://remysharp.com/2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill/ "Shim, to me, meant a piece of code that you could add that would fix some functionality, but it would most often have it’s own API. I wanted something you could drop in and it would silently work (remember the old shim.gif? that required you actually inserted the image to fix empty td cells – I wanted something that did that for me automatically). I knew what I wa…
Comment linking /2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill/
on “Python and the Real-time Web”Submitted The web didn't change; you did as a story · 21 points
HN discussionRemy's block post about the idea and development: http://remysharp.com/2013/03/18/quick-dirty-forking/
Comment linking /2013/03/18/quick-dirty-forking/
on “5 minute fork”Submitted An adventure in sparse arrays as a story · 18 points
HN discussionYou can use audio sprites to work around the "Every clip needs to be prepared" issue. It's pretty ugly: http://remysharp.com/2010/12/23/audio-sprites/ The state of audio on iOS and Android is really sad. HTML5 games would benefit so much from working audio but for now, it's completely disabled in Impact (my game engine) on those devices.
Comment linking /2010/12/23/audio-sprites/
on “The iPad is the new IE6”Submitted I'm a web developer. Not an engineer as a story · 17 points
HN discussionposition: fixed is quite broken on IOS[1] [1] http://remysharp.com/2012/05/24/issues-with-position-fixed-s...
Comment linking /2012/05/24/issues-with-position-fixed-scrolling-on-ios/
on “I love TripIt, but I hate their iPhone app, so I redesigned it.”Submitted Why I don't like open source: my thoughts as a story · 10 points
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