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Thomas Reynolds
Personal blog · awardwinningfjords.comprogrammingweb
Thomas Reynolds writes Award Winning Fjords, a personal blog at awardwinningfjords.com about programming and web. Since 2009, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “My Weird Ruby”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Thomas Reynolds' blog, which covers image-sequence animation, Ruby development, and iPhone-style HTML checkbox toggles. Commenters link it as a detailed explainer and a useful resource.
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?
- My Weird Ruby2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-06
- IPhone-style checkbox toggles in jQuery2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-16
What Hacker News says?
No need to guess. Here's a very complete and detailed article about precisely why and how this particular animation works the way it does: http://awardwinningfjords.com/2012/03/08/image-sequences.htm...
Comment linking /2012/03/08/image-sequences.html
on “Google I/O 2012”Submitted Facebook the Devourer as a story · 138 points
HN discussionYou may enjoy using Contracts and the Dry-rb suite. It makes ruby behave in a more functional way without sacrificing the extreme flexibility that is inherit in the language. There was a good blog post about this from Thomas Reynolds the developer of Middleman a little while ago[0] [0] https://awardwinningfjords.com/2015/03/03/my-weird-ruby.html
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on “Why Hanami will never unseat Rails”Submitted My Weird Ruby as a story · 128 points
HN discussionThis is the first iPhone-like toggle switches that works well and are usable. Both with click and drag. Edit: They are an improvement of these: http://awardwinningfjords.com/2009/06/16/iphone-style-checkb... Kudos to the author.
Comment linking /2009/06/16/iphone-style-checkboxes.html
on “Turn boring HTML checkboxes into iPhone toggle switches”Submitted Functional Programming in JavaScript is Garbage as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ember.js Live Collections as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML5 localStorage for JavascriptMVC as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactoring CSS with Sass as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Javascript Microframeworks and The Future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IPhone-style checkbox toggles in jQuery as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming with Facts: Experimenting with Datalog in JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Weird Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavascriptMVC Router as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Middleman: A modular, feature-rich static site generator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't repeat your CSS, use Sass modules as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compass, the future of Sass development as a story · 1 points
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