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Samuel Clay
Personal blog · ofbrooklyn.comprogramminghardwaredesign
Samuel Clay writes OfBrooklyn.com, a personal blog at ofbrooklyn.com about programming, hardware and design. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Migrating a large JavaScript project from DOM spaghetti to Backbone.js”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Samuel Clay's posts on migrating NewsBlur's jQuery code to Backbone.js, and his wearable tech projects, such as a light-up dress. The comments cite these as sources or related work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Migrating a large JavaScript project from DOM spaghetti to Backbone.js3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-11-15
- Building Pulse and Bloom, an interactive biofeedback installation at Burning Man2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-09-08
- Adventures in Wearable Electronics – Making a Light-up Dress2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-16
What Hacker News says?
Great work...it calls to mind a longform guide that Sam Clay wrote in converting NewsBlur's spaghetti code to Backbone: http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2012/11/13/backbonification-migrat...
Comment linking /2012/11/13/backbonification-migrating-javascript-to-backbone/
on “Step by step from jQuery to Backbone”Submitted Migrating a large JavaScript project from DOM spaghetti to Backbone.js as a story · 224 points
HN discussionThank you, that's very kind of you to say. I have a bit of a history with art projects, in fact. Among other projects, I built and blogged a big interactive biofeedback art piece at Burning Man 2014 called Pulse & Bloom that hit HN a couple years ago: http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2014/09/6/building-pulse-bloom-bio...
Comment linking /2014/09/6/building-pulse-bloom-biofeedback-burning-man-2014/
on “Amazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back”Submitted Building Pulse and Bloom, an interactive biofeedback installation at Burning Man as a story · 155 points
HN discussionCheck it out, 100% open source: https://github.com/samuelclay/turntouch-ios . The Mac app, the firmware, and even the CAD and CAM designs are also there. And I documented everything so you can get a peek into how it was built if you want to change the designs for yourself. http://ofbrooklyn.com/2019/01/3/building-turntouch/ Everything I build I want to last beyond myself. So beyond the source code I also write about…
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on “Why Does My Remote Control Need to Know My Location?”Submitted What Happened to NewsBlur: A Hacker News Effect Post-Mortem as a story · 132 points
HN discussionNewsBlur, http://www.newsblur.com is using Backbone.js. http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2012/11/13/backbonification-migrat... and https://speakerdeck.com/samuelclay/backbonification-migratin...
Comment linking /2012/11/13/backbonification-migrating-javascript-to-backbone/
on “A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember”Submitted Adventures in Wearable Electronics – Making a Light-up Dress as a story · 109 points
HN discussionIf you're interested in getting Leopard's old-style exposé back in Snow Leopard, I wrote a blog post explaining how to do it: http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2011/01/9/old-style-mac-os-x-leopa... Proportional-style windows make so much more sense than the grid-based layout. I'm thrilled that they've reverted back to that for Lion's exposé, using the grid for the new Mission Control view.
Comment linking /2011/01/9/old-style-mac-os-x-leopard-expose-snow-leopard/
on “What we know about Mac OS X Lion”Submitted Building a living photo frame with a Raspberry Pi and a motion detector as a story · 58 points
HN discussionThis isn't too futuristic, but it's very practical and better than jeans: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/the-technical-pants-... For something with more tech in it, you could build a northskirt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UktOOIK_6nU or a light-up dress http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2014/01/15/adventures-in-wearable-... or add TRON-style EL wire to anything https://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/10/11/tron-ify-…
Comment linking /2014/01/15/adventures-in-wearable-electronics-light-up-dress/
on “ASK HN: Future clothing”Submitted Show HN: Building Grove, interactive biofeedback trees you breathe into as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Old-style Mac OS X Leopard Exposé in Snow Leopard as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Raphaël Demo - Cross Browser Vector Graphics - Topic Connections Graph as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Pulse and Bloom: An Interactive Biofeedback Installation as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Grove – interactive trees that come alive to your breath at Burning Man as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating Django from MySQL to PostgreSQL the Easy Way as a story · 2 points
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