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Simon Sarris
Personal blog · simonsarris.com/blog · on HN as simonsarriswritingprogramming
Simon Sarris writes simon sarris, a personal blog at simonsarris.com about writing and programming. Since 2010, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 92 times, most often “High Quality Collections of Digitized Art and Archival Finds”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Simon Sarris's site for his canvas performance posts and as an example of a personal blog design. The comments are bare links or passing mentions and do not judge the writing.
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.
Simon Sarris: essays, projects, recipes, and other tidings.
Most-linked posts?
- High Quality Collections of Digitized Art and Archival Finds4 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2020-01-30
- /2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-03-21
- Simonsarris.com – no-JavaScript SPA style homepage with CSS3 animation/buttons2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-02
- The Importance of GeoCities and Bob Ross2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-07-03
- How you clear your HTML5 Canvas matters2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-11
- Deliberate Practice for Knowledge Work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-27
- Waiting for the Barbarians2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-18
- /lit/library-of-babel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-21
What Hacker News says?
This is great. I keep a list of 'High Quality Collections of Digitized Art and Archival Finds' and will add this one. https://simonsarris.com/art-collections
Comment linking /art-collections
on “Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain”Submitted Why I Love Recruiters as a story · 49 points
HN discussionI could tell this was GPT-3 because it reads like SEO-style sentence structure :/ > I imagine that similar results can be obtained by republishing GPT-3’s outputs to other message boards, blogs, and social media. I actually wrote a bit about this scenario and how it could explode comment sections to stonewall topics, which I'm calling Commentdämmerung: https://simonsarris.com/commentdammerung Still, I think a lot of…
Comment linking /commentdammerung
on “OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin”Submitted HTML5 Canvas drawText() considered harmful as a story · 8 points
HN discussionWorking on simeville, a little 2D Canvas demo that builds a town. You can try it yourself here: https://simonsarris.github.io/simeville/ (pardon the graphics, they're stand-ins right now) Click to make buildings (above the tree line only right now) and click and drag the sun down to go to night. Drag the moon to return to day. Gif of night sky: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1235761030996901888 The point is…
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on “Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?”Submitted Deliberate Practice for Knowledge Work as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThis isn't new, the 1.9M were already up. It was one of my favorites and its in a list I keep of "High Quality Collections of Digitized Art and Archival Finds" (here: https://simonsarris.com/art-collections ) What's truly new here is a detailed search function that works FAR better than the old one, which would sometimes have a warning/apology box that it didn't quite work!
Comment linking /art-collections
on “British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free”Submitted Simeville, purely HTML+CSS single page site with CSS3 content buttons, animation as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> Strategies for attracting and retaining tech talent in a non-tech industry Experiences transitioning from third-party to in-house software (success stories and cautionary tales). Potential pitfalls we might not be considering. Alternative solutions we should explore. https://simonsarris.com/p/growing-software-developers It presumes you have at least 1-2 people already as a team, though.
Comment linking /p/growing-software-developers
on “Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?”Submitted How you clear your HTML5 Canvas matters as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is great and I'd be happy to add it to my list of High Quality Collections of Digitized Art and Archival Finds[1], where I catalog sites like these, but where are the images coming from? There seems to be no information. For example for the American artist Charles Courtney Curran, Artvee has three: https://artvee.com/artist/charles-courtney-curran/ This is more than NY Public Library with only one: https://digi…
Comment linking /art-collections
on “Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations”Submitted Maybe Google+'s trickle of invites is a wise and calculated move as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOh my. A paragon of magical realism and my second favorite author. Rest in peace. Liking storytelling alone is sometimes not enough to like Marquez, you have to love language too. He uses (some might say abuses) language to impact his storytelling, often using incredibly long, convoluted sentences to weave his narrative. It can be hard to follow, sometimes intentionally, but I find it enormously satisfying to read a…
Comment linking /lit/a-very-old-man-with-enormous-wings
on “Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87”Submitted Hiring Software Developers in the Provinces as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI find this compelling: > Strikingly, 100% of ICU patients less than 75 years old had VDI [Vitamin D Insufficiency] Since mid-March I've been trying to keep track of Vitamin D/Sunlight suggestions and papers here: https://simonsarris.com/sunlight
Comment linking /sunlight
on “Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19”Submitted Commentdämmerung as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI always thought that strange too. I get a fair number of recruiter emails, and almost all of them seem to assume out of hand that relocation is the least of my concerns, when it probably easily the #1 thing. Every reply I give[1] ends up being a cheeky way of mentioning that I have a life and a home in a place and I do not intend to abandon it for a mere job. Perhaps my current job isn't the most interesting thing…
Comment linking /blog/626-why-i-love-recruiters
on “No, I still don't want to work for Google”Submitted We should all be supplementing with vitamin D as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThanks to StackOverflow I'm relatively reputed(?) in one teeny niche of the programming world. This leads to a few recruiter emails per week, and almost all of them I reply to with a cheeky way of saying that I'm not going to move[1]. One company to date has said that not-relocating my entire life is OK with them. The rest can be summed up with the reply that ended an email exchange with an SV angel: > sorry to hear…
Comment linking /blog/626-why-i-love-recruiters
on “Why We Still Believe in Working Remotely”Submitted Gentle introduction to making interactive, re-sizable shapes on HTML5 Canvas as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI like inserting art, like the header to https://simonsarris.com A village pops up. There is no point to it. You can click to make more houses. You can right-click to drag things around. When I touch it again I think I'll add a sun and moon that track the time of day for wherever the user is located. Actually the footer has art too, each page has a semi-randomly assigned illustration from public-domain (old) art tha…
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on “Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?”Submitted Twitter's Disable-Reply Feature: Closing the Agora as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHa! Caught you not mentioning your blog posts while I was adding this comment to my "canvas performance" bookmark list and saw a familiar name. http://simonsarris.com/blog/tag/performance
Comment linking /blog/tag/performance
on “In defense of <canvas>”Submitted Work on These (Other) Things as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLOL at the button after the submission form. I submitted https://simonsarris.com because of my ridiculous background (a town that builds with CSS animations, and birds that appear to have no set path done with pure CSS). The logic behind the little birds: they are DIVs with CSS animated on a cubic path up-and-down, while their ::after is getting animated on a different cubic path left-to-right. The result of 2 separ…
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on “The Whimsical Website Club”Submitted Letters to Recruiters (Or, Why I Love Recruiters) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSince very early printing times many publishers adopted colophons: logos or emblems that can be quite elaborate but are nonetheless easy to add to a page or binding if you have a printing press and can make a die. For example some old ones that Oxford University Press used in the 1500s and 1600s: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61421/61421-h/images/illus6a... I wanted a logo that felt like a colophon to complete the…
Comment linking /art-collections
on “Show HN: Carefulwords.com, a more inspiring thesaurus”Submitted Request to critique my tech writing (and html5 canvas select-and-drag tutorial) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote about that scenario last month: Commentdämmerung (twilight of the comments) https://simonsarris.com/commentdammerung
Comment linking /commentdammerung
on “GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about”Submitted The Best Waffle Recipe on the Internet as a story · 2 points
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