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Scott Sherrill-Mix
Personal blog · scott.sherrillmix.com/blogprogramming
Scott Sherrill-Mix's personal blog at scott.sherrillmix.com covers programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for the author's avatar work: identicons and monsterids, which the comments credit to him as his own creations. The posts concern generating avatars from hashes, as with Gravatar.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Strange that neither the article nor the comments mention https://gravatar.com/ It hashes the user's email http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/hash/ and creates an "identicon" from the hash http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_identicon/ or loads a user-defined image.
Comment linking /blog/blogger/wp_identicon/
on “Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars”Submitted Syntax highlighting in terminal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionInteresting point. Wavatars are Shamus Young's original work.[1] Identicons[2] and monsterids[3] are Scott Sherill-Mix's work. I don't think those guys were shooting for "ugly", but I agree an ugly or nondescript avatar could incentivize users to upload a custom one. And that may have played into Gravatar's decision to support these avatar types. [1] http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1462 [2] http://scot…
Comment linking /blog/blogger/wp_monsterid/
on “Of Gravatars and Robohashes”