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Silicon Publishing
Company blog · blog.siliconpublishing.com/blogprogrammingdesign
Silicon Publishing is the company blog at blog.siliconpublishing.com, writing about programming and design. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The Fall and Rise of SVG”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for an article on SVG's capabilities, which one commenter says are poorly understood, and on why SVG's adoption has been slow.
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.
The Silicon Publishing Blog, posts about publishing technology from the world experts at InDesign Server automation.
Most-linked posts?
- The Fall and Rise of SVG2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-04
What Hacker News says?
Agreed, a lightweight vector graphics format would certainly be welcome. However, the stuff SVG is capable of doing is not trivial but mostly just poorly understood. I think the article below is a good read and I sometimes wonder if some of the (unconscious) negative perception around SVG is because of the slowness of its adoption: http://blog.siliconpublishing.com/2015/12/the-fall-and-rise-... Having said that, I p…
Comment linking /2015/12/the-fall-and-rise-of-svg/
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