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The Haystack
Personal blog · the-haystack.comwebprogramming
The Haystack is a personal blog at the-haystack.com about web and programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal blog for its posts on web technology, such as CSS flexbox support in Firefox and the case for people hosting their own data and offering APIs instead of web services.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> Firefox never supported the old flexbox. I'm not sure why you're asserting that when you're completely wrong. Not only did Firefox support the old flexbox, it still does as of Firefox 22 : [0] still works and uses the old (and prefixed) flexbox syntax, and said old (and prefixed) syntax remains documented on MDN with a note that it's deprecated[1] [0] http://www.the-haystack.com/2010/01/23/css3-flexbox-part-1/ [1]…
Comment linking /2010/01/23/css3-flexbox-part-1/
on “Firefox 22 released”Submitted There is no Mobile Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think this bit from an older article sums it up nicely: http://www.the-haystack.com/2010/12/17/death-to-web-services... What if we flipped this all on its head? What if we hosted our own data, and provided APIs for all these webapps so that they can use our data? I can imagine that to be a substantially cool use of RDFa/Microformats and whatever metadata/semantic web technologies you prefer. Isn’t one of the point…
Comment linking /2010/12/17/death-to-web-services-long-live-web-services/
on “Your Words are Wasted”