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Renee French
Personal blog · reneefrench.blogspot.comdesignculture
Renee French writes renee french, a personal blog at reneefrench.blogspot.com about design and culture. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Renee French's blog for her illustrations, including the original Go gopher artwork and her other drawings. Commenters point to specific posts showing her gopher designs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-24
What Hacker News says?
Renee French, the original illustrator of the Go Gopher, is still updating the gopher: http://reneefrench.blogspot.com I'm partial to this take on the little fella: http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/2016/11/blog-post.html
Comment linking /2016/11/blog-post.html
on “Go's New Brand”I see, so his name used to be Gordon[1] but he changed his name so that now he has no name. [1]: http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/2009/10/gordon.html
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on “Things you (probably) don't know about Go”They're not so creepy compared to some of the artist's other work: http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/
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on “Concurrency is not Parallelism. Rob Pike at Waza 2012 [video]”Good that you took action. But it is still not compliant. You must link to original work by Renee. You need include link to her blog, where she posted the design. See here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ > If supplied, you must provide the name of the creator and attribution parties, a copyright notice, a license notice, a disclaimer notice, and a link to the material. For reference, here is how offici…
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on “Gopher images for the Go developer community”Go's mascot was drawn by a professional illustrator: http://reneefrench.blogspot.com
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on “Why Are Programming Languages Sites So Ugly?”