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Russell Beattie
Personal blog · russellbeattie.comhardwarewriting
Russell Beattie's personal blog at russellbeattie.com covers hardware and writing. Since 2007, 47 different Hacker News readers have linked it 75 times, most often “Artisanal Websites: The rise of .io domains for well crafted web services”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Artisanal Websites: The rise of .io domains for well crafted web services5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-02-12
- The decades long quagmire of encapsulated HTML – Russell Beattie's Notes3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2022-11-12
- Android tablets: It's the browser2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-15
- /blog/two-letter-io-domains-available2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-16
- /blog/the-zap-colors-bookmarklet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-02-06
What Hacker News says?
If anyone is interested, I wrote a long blog post where I analyzed all the various ways of saving HTML pages into a single file, starting back in the 90s. It'll answer a lot of questions asked in this thread (MHTML, SingleFile, web archive, etc.) https://www.russellbeattie.com/notes/posts/the-decades-long-...
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on “Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file”Submitted Why Is Markdown Popular? as a story · 107 points
HN discussionSee also : "The decades long quagmire of encapsulated HTML" (2022) : https://www.russellbeattie.com/notes/posts/the-decades-long-... (Which still hasn't been posted as a "news" it seems... should I just submit it myself ??)
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on “Portable EPUBs”Submitted Android tablets: It's the browser as a story · 78 points
HN discussionIf you look at both Twitter and RSS superficially, you can easily decide one is better than the other. If you've ever tried and failed to create your own "perfect" news reader as I have, you'll realize both suck, and have for over a decade now and they're never going ever improve. The real issue isn't the pros and cons of one platform vs. another from an informational or social perspective, the real issue is much mo…
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on “RSS Is Better Than Twitter”Submitted Android is splintering, just not how you think it is... as a story · 43 points
HN discussionGreat list. You missed a few. Feeder.co (my preferred alternative), Stringer, and probably a few more. Check out Russell Beattie's blog post here: http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/readerpocalypse-the-alter...
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on “Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh”Submitted WIMP UI paradigm won't scale down to touch UIs as a story · 33 points
HN discussionHuh, go figure. It really took off as the home for artisanal techie websites: http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/artisanal-websites-the-ri... (Beattie credits evocative short name, stable British administration, lots of available short and English word domains.)
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on “Robinhood: $0 commission stock brokerage”Submitted Russell Beattie ends Mowser as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSo I whipped up a standalone HTML page to use to develop Dwitter scripts without having to use their interface (which seems prone to crashing). Here's the source: https://gist.github.com/russellbeattie/ef27709f7c916ea54454c... and you can see it live on my site: http://www.russellbeattie.com/dwitterish.html Interestingly, I found that some scripts really don't like using eval(), so I modified the page to dynamically…
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on “Dwitter – A social network for short JavaScript demos”Submitted Nearly a million users, and no spam or trolls as a story · 18 points
HN discussionOr you could zap colors: http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/the-zap-colors-bookmarkle...
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on “Damn Cool Algorithms: Fountain Codes”Submitted H2G2 Is Still Relevant as a story · 13 points
HN discussionIt's become a standard name for IT products (more so than .it!) due to input/output connnotations, and as the other commenter said, it's especially appropriate for a Google product launched at IO. Also a lot of names sound cool as .io, e.g. cloud.io can be read as "Cloudio". And due to the relatively high cost, a lot of .io names are still available. Just 18 months ago, a ton of 2-letter domains were still going ( h…
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on “Yeoman.io - Quickly build beautiful web applications”Submitted When will local truly be on the web? as a story · 13 points
HN discussionTwitter is about writing a quick thought to get it out of your system and hoping some of your followers actually sees it, which statistically, they won't. I wrote an analysis 12 years ago about it (below). With the passage of time it's clear that without AI algorithms, Twitter (and other social networks) would be totally useless, instead of mostly useless, as it is today. I didn't get how good AI was going to get ba…
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on “I finally got Twitter after years of not getting it”Submitted Still Struggling with Social Networking as a story · 13 points
HN discussionhttps://www.russellbeattie.com/notes/posts/why-is-markdown-p... > Why don’t we have an HTML-based rich text standard yet? > I have zero idea. In fact, we seem to be getting farther away from one as Markdown popularity surges. > The other day I read a blog post by the folks at Mozilla - who are supposed to be the standard bearers of, um, web standards, and was truly shocked that they decided to convert all their docu…
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on “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project (1990)”Submitted My Year of Living Dangerously as a story · 12 points
HN discussionOMG! You have to find a Spectrum emulator and find that game so you can play it! You can't go through life with that unfinished! I may do it myself just out of solidarity! Years ago I found a bunch of my old CoCo tapes and loaded them up in an emulator. It was cathartic to say the least: https://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/letter-defender-my-big-p...
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on “How People Used to Download Games from the Radio (2014)”Submitted The iPhone Crapp Store? as a story · 10 points
HN discussion.webarchive is just a binary plist, only works on Apple OSes and has security issues. I posted about the various ways to encapsulate HTML last week, including SingleFile, for those who are interested. https://www.russellbeattie.com/notes/posts/the-decades-long-...
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on “Show HN: SingleFile is finally available on Safari (macOS/iOS)”Submitted Great Idea: Empirical User Experience Design Through Action Costs as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAppleScript pops up every once in a while on HN and the general consensus seems to have been: It can be powerful and in some instances it works well, but the syntax is insane, the JavaScript isn't documented, the edge cases are numerous, security updates and popups can be frustrating, it never really works as expected and takes you way longer to make it work than it should. It's a neglected part of the OS and given…
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on “AppleScript: Graphic User Interface (GUI) Scripting”Submitted Near Field Communications is Amazing as a story · 7 points
HN discussionApple desperately needs to kill AppleScript. Every year or so for the past decade, I run into a problem and think, "Oh, I'll try AppleScript" and as the saying goes, it rarely ends well. [1] We NEED the functionality of desktop apps and services exposing scriptable objects and methods. We do NOT need a "human language based scripting language". Programming in Python, Java and JavaScript have been taught at all level…
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on “AppleScript (2006) [pdf]”Submitted Peep - an Open Twitter Server as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI went through this same wave of nostalgia about a decade ago and successfully transferred the first real program I wrote [1] when I was just 10yo. I still have my beloved TRS-80 Color Computer (don't you dare call it trash!!) and the cassette tapes which the program was stored on, and was able to import it into an emulator so I could play with it and print out the program. At one point I had the idea of converting…
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on “Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015)”Submitted Russell Beattie's First Rule of Application Development as a story · 4 points
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