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Sean Martell

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Sean Martell writes Reticulating Splines, a personal blog at blog.seanmartell.com about design and web. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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2009–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

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 only names the WordPress theme the blog runs on and does not judge the writing.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. indeed, the WP theme is https://github.com/viewportindustries/starkers can see here: http://blog.seanmartell.com/wp-content/themes/simplified/sty...

    Comment linking /wp-content/themes/simplified/style.css

    on “Rebuilding a simplified Firefox logo”
  2. Submitted Rebuilding a simplified Firefox logo as a story · 173 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Amazing rain drop logo created with nothing but simple HTML and CSS as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Simplified logos: Nightly and Aurora as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The rebirth of the Firefox mascot as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted As a designer [iOS7] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted CSS3 & Flexible UI: Avoid Recutting UI Graphics for Mobile as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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