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TJ VanToll
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TJ VanToll's personal blog at tjvantoll.com covers web and programming. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link TJ VanToll's posts on browser history and web-platform APIs, such as showModalDialog and IE6, and on a 2025 vibe-coding experiment. The comments cite them as sources without judging the writing.
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.
A collection of the stuff TJ VanToll is working on and interested in.
What Hacker News says?
Another thing was that a lot of corporate apps supported IE6 only. I remember that I was working in an app back in 2010 that was heavily using the showModalDialog https://www.tjvantoll.com/2012/05/02/showmodaldialog-what-it... This API was not supported by any other browser but was fundamental for our work because you could display a web page in a modal window that would return a value to the parent page when the mo…
Comment linking /2012/05/02/showmodaldialog-what-it-is-and-why-you-should-never-use-it/
on “A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)”Submitted Mobile Safari's Performance Is Not the Problem as a story · 75 points
HN discussionI've been annoyed lately by posts (elsewhere) by vibe-coding startup CEOs who think they can build companies without developers. These are not serious people. Recently, my head spun around a bit when I saw an experiment done by my team at blues, and I realized it was time for me to dig a bit deeper. https://www.tjvantoll.com/2025/03/17/vibecoding/ And so, over the past few weeks I've done an interesting CEO vibe-cod…
Comment linking /2025/03/17/vibecoding/
on “Padlock: A post-quantum encoding utility for backups & border-crossings”Submitted How Emoji Can Improve Your Code–Seriously as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted List of Pseudo-Elements to Style Form Controls as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Detecting Print Requests with JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using CocoaPods in NativeScript versus React Native as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the Hell Does Console.error.bind(console) Do? as a story · 2 points
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