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Robert Kuykendall
Personal blog · rkuykendall.com/articles · on HN as rkuykendall-comprogrammingwebdata
Robert Kuykendall writes - Articles, a personal blog at rkuykendall.com about programming, web and data. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Web Slinger: Building a Comic Book Reader for the Web”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about rebuilding a simplified Firefox logo. The one comment is a link to an image of the logo, with a remark about how a normal person sees the redesign.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Web Slinger: Building a Comic Book Reader for the Web2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-18
- /uploads/fx-logos-small.png2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-27
What Hacker News says?
This was a bit of an obsession of mine ever since I saw Coding Horror a few years ago. I had seen a lot of extremely minimalist designs, but they were all doing things to accomplish that minimalism. As a developer though, you have a nagging feeling in the back of your brain saying "that's a lie, it's not simple, it's very complicated, it just looks simple." Coding Horror is complex, but it was plain enough for me to…
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on “This is a web page”Submitted Web Slinger: Building a Comic Book Reader for the Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPerspective: This is how the normal person will see what you are hating http://rkuykendall.com/uploads/fx-logos-small.png
Comment linking /uploads/fx-logos-small.png
on “Rebuilding a simplified Firefox logo”Submitted Simple sentiment analysis in python using AFINN as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy browser didn't want to resize the page smaller than 25%, so I made this to visualize the logos at very small sizes: http://rkuykendall.com/uploads/fx-logos-small.png
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on “Rebuilding a simplified Firefox logo”Submitted Web Slinger: Building a Comic Book Reader for the Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionApp request: Android app, I enter "my" subway stops and the direction I take them ( Ex: The 1 train, uptown, from 116th ), the App simply shows me how many minutes until the next train. I want something I can quickly open and glance at to know when I should leave, or if I should be sprinting to the station to save myself 20m late at night. 1 minute mock up: http://rkuykendall.com/uploads/subway-app-mock-up.jpg
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on “NYC Subway Data REST API”Because when you do it this way, you don't have to host the text file. This doesn't seem like a big deal when we're talking about 2048 saves, but a imagine a book reader or image editor. I actually tried to do something like this for a Comic Book reader, but the Dropbox API didn't allow for file requests to be made through JS: http://rkuykendall.com/articles/web-slinger-comic-reader/
Comment linking /articles/web-slinger-comic-reader/
on “Dropbox 2048”
