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Tantek Çelik
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Tantek Çelik's personal blog at tantek.com covers web, programming and writing. Since 2007, 58 different Hacker News readers have linked it 70 times, most often “Js;dr JavaScript Required; Didn't Read”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 5 of 31 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Tantek Çelik's personal site as early CSS and web-standards experiments, such as the polygon and box model hack pages, and as a source for IndieWeb ideas and the 'if it's not curlable' JavaScript post.
- Recommended for · 5 comments
- One commenter lists Tantek among favourite developers; others like his definition of the web, say a log entry is one they like a lot, and say a post is worth a
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 31 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Js;dr JavaScript Required; Didn't Read6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-03-11
- How many ways can you slice a URL and name the pieces?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-08-26
- What is the open web?4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-10-09
- Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2007-02-27
- /CSS/Examples/polygons.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-12-18
- A Few Open Web Standards Practices Learned from CSS 2.12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-10
- The First Federated Indieweb Comment Thread2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-24
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-27
- /CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-17
What Hacker News says?
Some of my favorites... * Tantek Çelik -> http://tantek.com and https://indieweb.org * Aaron Parecki -> https://aaronparecki.com and https://indieweb.org * Patrick (patio11) McKenzie -> http://www.kalzumeus.com * Moxie Marlinspike -> https://moxie.org * Scott Hanselman -> http://www.hanselman.com * Joel Spolsky -> https://www.joelonsoftware.com * Jeff Atwood -> https://blog.codinghorror.com * Gina Trapani -> http://…
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on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Submitted js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read. as a story · 230 points
HN discussion> then many years later 'box-sizing: border-box' was introduced and widely praised and adopted by frameworks Well, IE implemented their version of the box model in '97 (coincidently, NN4 did the same); the box-sizing property was first proposed in 1999[1], and first appeared in a draft in 1999[2], and implemented in Gecko in 1999[3] and in IE5/Mac in 2000[4]. That's two years from IE/NN shipping the non-standard box…
Comment linking /notes/csssupport.html
on “What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider's Retrospective”Submitted The Acceleration of Addictiveness vs Willpower, Productivity, and Flow as a story · 128 points
HN discussionYes, it is valid. To quote Tantek: > if it’s not curlable, it’s not on the web. http://tantek.com/2015/069/t1/js-dr-javascript-required-dead
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on “A Primer for Building Single Page Applications with React”Submitted How many ways can you slice a URL and name the pieces? as a story · 66 points
HN discussionThanks for sharing my site! As you say, I'm quite big with IndieWeb, and for readers there are quite a few other folks you'll want to see - https://snarfed.org/ https://tantek.com/ https://aaronparecki.com/ and https://www.barryfrost.com/ to name just a few. If anyone is interested learning more about the IndieWeb, https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/ is a transcript of a conference talk I gave on what…
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on “'Expert Twitter' Only Goes So Far – Bring Back Blogs”Submitted The First Federated Indieweb Comment Thread as a story · 45 points
HN discussionThe article doesn't define the "open web," and platforms like Facebook and Twitter would seem to mostly follow the dictates set out in Tantek's original definition.[1] So it's hard to guess at what the author means -- Facebook and Twitter aren't "the open web" by tautology, basically. It's really hard to engage with the author's arguments that way. What is trivial to understand is that the author's proposed remedy d…
Comment linking /2010/281/b1/what-is-the-open-web
on “Death by a thousand likes: Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web”Submitted Why You Should Use Timezone Offsets Not Timezone Names as a story · 26 points
HN discussionIt was way ahead of IE for Windows. http://tantek.com/log/2004/06.html
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on “Microsoft exec: “Summary of meeting with Steve Jobs"”Submitted What is the open web? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThis totally reminded me of Tantek's site http://tantek.com/map.html Wayback: http://web.archive.org/web/20020321021851/http://tantek.com/...
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on “Building a Hexagonal Grid in CSS”Submitted Js;dr JavaScript Required; Didn't Read as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI like Tantek's definition the best: "if it’s not curlable, it’s not on the web". http://tantek.com/2015/069/t1/js-dr-javascript-required-dead
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on “How Googlebot crawls JavaScript”Submitted Making Userinterfaces FEEL responsive as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThis is uncanny - I was just now going through some historic code snippets for holy grail, and was thinking of Tantek and his box model hack[1]. I come here, and see this. Coincidence? Or, is the world of technology really that small? :) [1] http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html
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on “js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.”Submitted Js;dr = JavaScript Required; Didn’t Read as a story · 12 points
HN discussionYeah, isn't this what "the future" was going to look like back when xhtml was a thing? I guess there were some missing building blocks on the dom/scripting side, but what's the syntax story. edit: found a clue here, about abandonment of xhtml2 etc: http://tantek.com/2010/302/b1/xhtml-dead-long-live-xml-valid...
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on “Introducing Brick: Minimal-markup Web Components for Faster App Development”Submitted Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design as a story · 12 points
HN discussionCSS 2 predates the rule. The initial drafts of CSS 2.1 on the other hand, were published in 2002, yet it was 2011 by the time it became a full reccomendation despite having been in use for a long period by that stage. CSS3 colors (i.e. rgba() etc.) also became a full recommendation on the same day. > Two months earlier, in March of 1998, CSS 2 had become a W3C Proposed Recommendation (PR) which meant that it was con…
Comment linking /2011/160/b1/css-2-1-css3-w3c-open-web-standards-practices-learned
on “GitHub dropped Pygments”Submitted Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI'm not outraged, but I think it's a self-defeating move for Facebook. Which is fine, since Facebook - as a walled garden which is opposed to the Open Web - needs to go away anyway. Edit: I'm thinking more and more that I will probably be deleting my Facebook account sometime in the not too distant future. I'd really rather be doing all of my information sharing / browsing / interaction using a pure Open Web[1] orie…
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on “Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages”Submitted Js;dr = JavaScript Required; Didn’t Read as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHere's an example I like a lot from Tantek Celik: http://tantek.com/log/2008/03.html#d06t1604 , something along these lines would be great. I think just going around asking valley luminaries what they wear & pack while traveling and why would be a great place to start.
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on “Why I Wear The Same Thing Every Day, And What I Wear”Submitted On Silos vs An Open Social Web as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt's not mine - it's from http://tantek.com/2015/069/t1/js-dr-javascript-required-dead
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on “The SimCity Planning Commission Handbook”Submitted Js;dr = JavaScript Required; Didn’t Read as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe orignal seems to be down now. Note that there are many ways to name the bits you parse a URL into: http://tantek.com/2011/238/b1/many-ways-slice-url-name-piece...
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on “The Lazy Man's URL Parsing”Submitted There are HTML classes and CSS selectors, but no CSS classes. as a story · 4 points
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