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techblog.appnexus.com is the company blog at techblog.appnexus.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2011, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Webkit (Chrome, Safari) console.log is broken.”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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52mentions?
25HN people?
2011–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link AppNexus's tech blog for posts on metrics collection with Graphite (about a million datapoints a minute) and an animated Bézier curve demo. No comment judges 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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Webkit (Chrome, Safari) console.log is broken.
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-07-17
  2. Pool_party – A leak-free memory allocator for short-lived objects
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-09
  3. Joel Spolsky: How to build, manage, and scale an engineering org
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-05
  4. X Eighty Swift
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-02
  5. Breaking down Barriers for a more Powerful platform
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. I agree that Chrome's dev tools are faster and crash less. I also find them more visually appealing. I wouldn't say they are better than Firebug, though... there are a few kinks they need to work out. One of them is console.log(): (function(){ var obj = {}; console.log(obj); obj.new_value = "hello"; console.log(obj); })(); In Chrome, this logs an object {new_value: "hello"} twice, as opposed to the expected: an empt…

    Comment linking /2011/webkit-chrome-safari-console-log-bug/

    on “Firebug lead developer now working on Web dev tools at Google”
  2. Submitted On RESTful API Standards – Just Be Cool: 11 Rules for Practical API Development as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  3. I too have switched to Chrome about 5 months ago -- only because of its lower memory and CPU footprint (in my experience at least), and have found myself used to the Chrome web dev tools' assortment of annoyances. All things being equal, I'd prefer to use Firebug, but Firefox just eats up too much memory and starts to lock up for a few seconds at a time. Some issues I've found with Chrome dev tools: * console.log()…

    Comment linking /2011/webkit-chrome-safari-console-log-bug/

    on “Firebug lead developer now working on Web dev tools at Google”
  4. Submitted DevOps in Milliseconds as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  5. We're currently using Graphite ( http://techblog.appnexus.com/2011/metrics/ ) and loving it, but using MongoDB is an interesting spin. I'd love to see some performance benchmarks and see how many datapoints you can pump in and out of Cube. We've been collecting about 1 million metrics every minute on a speedy dual proc / quad core box backed with SSDs for storage.

    Comment linking /2011/metrics/

    on “Cube: time series visualization (MongoDB + Node + D3)”
  6. Submitted Pool_party – A leak-free memory allocator for short-lived objects as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  7. Here's mine from awhile ago: http://techblog.appnexus.com/2011/an-animated-bezier-curve-d...

    Comment linking /2011/an-animated-bezier-curve-demo/

    on “Animated Bézier Curves”
  8. Submitted Pool_party – Transactional allocation for short-lived requests as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  9. I just wrote a blog post about metrics. We're collecting about a million datapoints every minute, using an open source package (that we're contributing back to) called Graphite. http://techblog.appnexus.com/2011/metrics/

    Comment linking /2011/metrics/

    on “Metrics, Metrics Everywhere [video]”
  10. Submitted Webkit (Chrome, Safari) console.log is broken. as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Introduction to Lock-Free Programming (in unmanaged languages) as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Joel Spolsky: How to build, manage, and scale an engineering org as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Securing Our Big Data Platform Part 2 as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted X Eighty Swift as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Joel Spolsky: How to build, manage and scale effective engineering organization as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted L1 Logistic Regression at scale as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted On RESTful API Standards–Just Be Cool:11 Rules for Practical API Developmt pt2/2 as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted An_message: Format Agnostic Data Transfer (AppNexus Tech Blog) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Serving 100k ads per second with the help of RabbitMQ as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Project Hydra – Scaling an API Globally

 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Behind the Screens: The Making of Campaign Monitor as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Futures from the ground up as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Pyrobuf – A faster Python Protobuf library written in Cython as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Pool_party – Transactional allocation for short-lived requests as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Google Dense Hash versus Concurrency Kit Hash Set as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Predictive analytics: how to value millions of ad opportunities w/ Python as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Testing in Python: using nose & mocks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Show HN: An interactive Bezier Curve demo as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Graphite for metrics aggregation and display as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Develop Your Team’s Future Leaders to Change the Status Quo as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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