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Software is hard
Personal blog · softwareishard.com/blogprogrammingweb
Software is hard is a personal blog at softwareishard.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “ List of Firebug Extensions”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog by Firebug developer Jan Odvarko for posts on browser developer tools, including Firebug extensions, tips, the HAR file format, and web development techniques.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
More musings on software development
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/har-12-spec/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-10-05
- /blog/firecookie/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-02
- List of Firebug Extensions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-07-19
What Hacker News says?
I'm doing the same, with https://httptoolkit.tech/ : the core features are free, but there's advanced extras that require an active subscription. I'm this exact case you cover: it's a powerful developer tool that's very connected to the network & captures the traffic of many of your other apps & devices. It _must_ stay up to date, or users could be at serious risk. Holding back updates from users would be irresponsi…
Comment linking /blog/har-12-spec/
on “Nova by Panic”Submitted Eventbug Watch JavaScript events finally in Firebug as a story · 73 points
HN discussionConfusingly enough, HTTPArchive.org, and HAR the file format are two different projects (although one depends on the other). httparchive.org - captures web trends http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/har-12-spec/ - HAR file format
Comment linking /blog/har-12-spec/
on “Chrome DevTools could do that?”Submitted Firebug source base has been moved on github.com as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThis is very cool, solving some issues I no doubt many people have when writing tests against a (fast-)moving target. I'll definitely give it a try in my next project. I looked through the codebase, and noticed that this uses a custom data format to persist HTTP requests and responses in local storage. I'm not sure if it's technically possible in all circumstances, but I think it might be valuable to have requests a…
Comment linking /blog/har-12-spec/
on “Polly.js – Record, replay, and stub HTTP interactions”Submitted Extending Firebug, Hello World! (Part I.) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWorks also in Firefox with Firebug (but not yet in native Firefox console). See [1] for a blog entry from Jan Odvarko. [1] http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/firebug-tip-style...
Comment linking /blog/firebug/firebug-tip-styled-logging/
on “Console.log with style”Submitted Firebug 1.5: Break On Next as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Firecookie http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firecookie/ Built into the Webkit Developer Tools > Firequery http://firequery.binaryage.com/ jQuery objects visualisation (in console and inspector) are in the Developer Tools, rest is not (though the injection is a bookmarklet/browser extension away) > Firepicker http://thedarkone.github.com/firepicker/ Missing indeed, Opera's Dragonfly has a color picker but the web…
Comment linking /blog/firecookie/
on “ Google Chrome’s amazing growth spurt. The top web browser by June 2012?”Submitted Firebug HTTP Time Monitor - more accurate Network timings with Firefox 3.6 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFirebug with Firecookie http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firecookie/ Firequery http://firequery.binaryage.com/ Firepicker http://thedarkone.github.com/firepicker/ Jsonview http://jsonview.com/ Colorzilla http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/
Comment linking /blog/firecookie/
on “ Google Chrome’s amazing growth spurt. The top web browser by June 2012?”Submitted List of Firebug Extensions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionthis has been around for some time now: http://code.google.com/p/domplate/ EDIT: now here: https://github.com/cadorn/domplate more: http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/category/domplate/
Comment linking /blog/category/domplate/
on “dōmo: Markup, style, and code in one language”Submitted Tabular logs in Firebug as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's also Firephp for getting the server to send additional trace data: http://www.firephp.org/ EDIT: Also, this article has a good overview of multiple Firebug extensions: http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/list-of-firebug-e... I know some people who love PixelPerfect for transferring Photoshop mockups to CSS. Also one of the comments mentioned widerbug which I might try now that I have this weird 18.4"…
Comment linking /blog/firebug/list-of-firebug-extensions/
on “Firebug 1.3.0 Final Released”Submitted Extending Firebug - 6 tutorials as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- ed · 2009-11-06
Nice! Looks like DOMPlate, Firebug's internal template system. http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug-tutorial/extendin...
Comment linking /blog/firebug-tutorial/extending-firebug-domplate-part-v/
on “Jaml: Haml in Javascript” Submitted Firebug tip: log DOM events as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Front-End Dev Tip: Break on HTML Mutation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hunting Zombie Memory Leaks in Firefox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firebug Tip: using command line within an iframe as a story · 1 points
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