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the candler blog
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the candler blog is a personal blog at candlerblog.com about design, culture and writing. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Why Did John Gruber's Talk Show Leave 5by5?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts on a Brad Bird Twitter exchange about period typography in films, a Surface tablet piece, and Instagram's terms of service. The comments only link to these posts and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Did John Gruber's Talk Show Leave 5by5?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-18
What Hacker News says?
Yes, Mr. Bird was a bit defensive...here's a summary w/ links to the exchange on Twitter: http://www.candlerblog.com/2012/01/25/brad-bird-responds-to-...
Comment linking /2012/01/25/brad-bird-responds-to-typographer
on “Typecasting: The Use and Misuse of Period Typography in Movies (2001)”Submitted Don't Support Information Architects as a story · 148 points
HN discussionHere[ http://www.candlerblog.com/2012/05/18/where-did-the-talk-sho... ] and [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3993649 ] .
Comment linking /2012/05/18/where-did-the-talk-show-go/
on “Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place”Submitted Which Courier Is the Best Courier? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is another extremely patronizing non-retraction. He isn't saying anything new, displays a fantasy viewpoint of what happened/why people were upset and promises to fudge this whole process up again sometime in the future. I know Instagram is built on people not looking at degraded pictures more than once, but do they think folks won't read and re-read these updates. I'm out. Back to Flickr. http://www.candlerblo…
Comment linking /2012/12/20/obfuscatstagram/
on “Instagram updates its Terms of Service again based on user feedback”Submitted Why Did John Gruber's Talk Show Leave 5by5? as a story · 2 points
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