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Sergi Mansilla
Personal blog · sergimansilla.com/blogprogrammingweb
Sergi Mansilla's personal blog at sergimansilla.com covers programming and web. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “The Promise of Firefox OS”. The last post was in 2018, 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 Sergi Mansilla's posts for a virtual-scrolling demo that renders a million records with native browser scrollbars, and for a post on the promise of Firefox OS.
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.
Sergi Mansilla's thoughts and articles
Most-linked posts?
- The Promise of Firefox OS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-02-11
What Hacker News says?
Check this: http://sergimansilla.com/blog/virtual-scrolling it is an example of virtual list showing 1,000,000 records with native browser's scrollbars. So "yes" it is doable in principle but with JS help of course. And yet only for items of the same height.
Comment linking /blog/virtual-scrolling
on “The Monaco Code Editor”Submitted The Promise of Firefox OS as a story · 219 points
HN discussion> Plus, there's … Try it and you'll find out. You should contribute in order to improve the whole ecosystem. You should contribute in order to help it keep its promise ( http://sergimansilla.com/blog/promise-of-ffos/ ). You could also contribute in order to stop talking nonsense and gain the right to badmouth Firefox OS. But ultimately… You said you would if you could. It's up to you: are you honest and can you keep…
Comment linking /blog/promise-of-ffos/
on “Android One”Submitted Extending JavaScript with inline unit tests as a story · 32 points
HN discussionFor this (as I share his opinion), read the article from my collegue Sergi Mansilla about the promise of Firefox OS: http://sergimansilla.com/blog/promise-of-ffos/
Comment linking /blog/promise-of-ffos/
on “Getting started on Firefox OS apps with AngularJS”Submitted Dynamically generating MIDI in JavaScript as a story · 30 points
HN discussionYeah, reminds me of http://sergimansilla.com/blog/swipeselection-in-an-afternoon... . Development of new features (and bugfixing) in the core of Firefox OS is bliss.
Comment linking /blog/swipeselection-in-an-afternoon/
on “Firefox OS: System wide orientation lock in 45LOC”Submitted Implement cursor-swiping in half an afternoon as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox disabled my extensions as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactoring concurrency in Go as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Real World Observables as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easily add code coverage to your Node.js projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast virtual scrolling in vanilla JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a JavaScript interpreter for DBN using PEG.js and canvas (Part II) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a JavaScript interpreter for DBN using PEG.js and canvas as a story · 1 points
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