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Scott Vandehey
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Scott Vandehey writes Space Ninja, a personal blog at spaceninja.com about programming and web. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Falsehoods Programmers Believe – check if you are working for global websites”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Scott Vandehey's blog as a reference for the "Falsehoods programmers believe" lists and a post on IE CSS limits. Commenters cite these posts as support for their points about programmer assumptions and browser CSS.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Scott Vandehey: front-end architect & CSS specialist. Curator for Friday Front-End & CSS Basics. Author of “How to Find a Better Job in Tech.”
Most-linked posts?
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe – check if you are working for global websites4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-03-20
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-13
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-28
What Hacker News says?
>"Falsehoods Programmers Believe - A brief list of common falsehoods. A great overview and quick introduction into the world of falsehoods." https://spaceninja.com/2015/12/08/falsehoods-programmers-bel... >"Falsehoods programmers believe about names" >"People have names" Is this a joke?
Comment linking /2015/12/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe/
on “List of falsehoods programmers believe in”Submitted Falsehoods Programmers Believe as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis unfortunately follows the conventions of the genre called "Falsehood programmers believe about X": http://spaceninja.com/2015/12/08/falsehoods-programmers-beli... I honestly think this genre is horrible and counterproductive, even though the writer's intentions are good. It gives no examples, no explanations, no guidelines for proper implementations - just a list of condescending gotchas, showing off the superi…
Comment linking /2015/12/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe/
on “Falsehoods programmers believe about video”Submitted Falsehoods Programmers Believe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA general list of Falsehoods Programmers Believe: http://spaceninja.com/2015/12/08/falsehoods-programmers-beli...
Comment linking /2015/12/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe/
on “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers”Submitted Falsehoods Programmers Believe – check if you are working for global websites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe could just cut to the chase: Falsehoods programmers believe: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22things%20prog... http://www.metafilter.com/117073/Falsehoods-Programmers-Beli... By way of lists, a pretty comprehensive one: http://spaceninja.com/2015/12/08/falsehoods-programmers-beli... More in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12675830
Comment linking /2015/12/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe/
on “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (2012)”Submitted Falsehoods Programmers Believe (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhen doing things like this, you should take ie into consideration http://spaceninja.com/2015/03/31/ie-css-limits/ Using parker ( https://github.com/katiefenn/parker ) tool to analyze the css: curl http://peterchon.github.io/mimic/css/mimic.css -s | parker -s PARKER-JS Total Stylesheets: 1 Total Stylesheet Size: 126045 Total Rules: 2551 Total Selectors: 2611 Total Identifiers: 5292 Total Declarations: 3849 Selectors…
Comment linking /2015/03/31/ie-css-limits/
on “Show HN: Mimic – class-fied inline CSS”
