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Rob Dodson

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Rob Dodson's personal blog at robdodson.me covers web and programming. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Regarding the broken promise of Web Components”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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24mentions?
12HN people?
2012–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The one linked post is a 2013 Rob Dodson blog entry on "The Cat and the Hat" CSS idea, a Shadow DOM-era web standards topic. The comment cites it only to name the author.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Hi, I'm Rob. I write about front-end development and accessibility.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Regarding the broken promise of Web Components
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-16
  2. Exploring HTML Imports
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. Oh, it's about Hat and Cat. I first saw these at a talk on Shadow DOM and the future of the web by Rob Dodson. http://robdodson.me/blog/2013/11/15/the-cat-and-the-hat-css-...

    Comment linking /blog/2013/11/15/the-cat-and-the-hat-css-selectors/

    on ““The working group should not agree to freeze whatever syntax Chrome ships””
  2. Submitted A better HTML input experience (custom elements and the AOM) (2017) as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  3. It looks like this library, like gfx and move.js, will accept a cubic-bezier string for easing. I wrote a module which wraps all of Robert Penner's easing equations into cubic-beziers for ease of use: https://github.com/robdodson/amd-css3-ease And I talk about it in this blog post, but it's really easy to use: http://robdodson.me/blog/2012/05/27/penner-easing-equations-... Credit really goes to Matthew Lein who conv…

    Comment linking /blog/2012/05/27/penner-easing-equations-with-gfx-and-css3/

    on “JQuery Transit - CSS3 animations for jQuery”
  4. Submitted Regarding the broken promise of Web Components as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  5. For anyone interested, I wrote up a response: https://robdodson.me/regarding-the-broken-promise-of-web-com... Kinda used it as an attempt to address some bigger questions around Web Components I've seen come up a bunch. Curious what you all think.

    Comment linking /regarding-the-broken-promise-of-web-components/

    on “The broken promise of Web Components”
  6. Submitted The Art of Fear Blogging as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Finding a job in climate as a front-end engineer as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Regarding the broken promise of Web Components as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Exploring HTML Imports as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Decorators in JavaScript as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Managing Your Backbone Views with the State Pattern as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Newbie guide to testing AMD Backbone Modules as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted I Built My Mobile Second Brain as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted My Second Brain Never Worked. Then I Gave It a Gardener as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Clawdbot's Missing Layers as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Why I'm turning my home into a virtual power plant as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Command Palettes for the Web as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Why you can't test a screen reader using JavaScript (yet) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Shadow DOM CSS Cheat Sheet as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Creating a Markdown tag with Polymer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Exploring HTML Imports as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted RequireJS – Embracing the Awesomness of AMD Modules as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Debug LESS With Chrome Developer Tools as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Communicating between views in Backbone.js as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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