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Personal blog · toast.al/posts · on HN as toastalprogrammingwebdesign
toastal is a personal blog at toast.al about programming, web and design. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Semantic Markup for Callouts: A Not-Quite-RFC for Admonitions in HTML”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post explaining functors using Elm examples. The only comment says it omits the categorical perspective and functor laws, and calls Elm a poor choice for illustrating functors.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The webstead & weblog of toastal
Most-linked posts?
- Semantic Markup for Callouts: A Not-Quite-RFC for Admonitions in HTML2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-29
What Hacker News says?
Be open to #000 black tho < https://toast.al/posts/visuallayout/2023-07-06_be-open-to-bl... >
Comment linking /posts/visuallayout/2023-07-06_be-open-to-black
on “Concrete.css”Submitted Shifted 3 Shapes – Making a w3M Logo as a story · 9 points
HN discussionCompletely missing the categorical perspective here. Where are the functor laws? Additionally, we're missing the functors which aren't containers, like continuation-oriented functors, or which have monoidal summaries rather than mapping every point. Elm was a terrible choice for an ML with which to illustrate functors. Something like OCaml or Haskell, where polymorphic abstractions are available, would have been a b…
Comment linking /posts/code/2017-01-01-anatomy-of-maybe-part-ii-functor.html
on “Functors – What Are They?”Submitted Nix Development Setup for Factor as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI just finished relaunching my blog 2 days ago with a design, new host, new build tool, etc. so I could get back into writing & owning my writings. I hope to write more soon: https://toast.al
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Was Courier Important‽: How to Mess Up System Fonts in a Web Application as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thaiger Sprint 2025: Starring H2O, the HTTP Server (& Dropping Nginx) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Semantic Markup for Callouts: A Not-Quite-RFC for Admonitions in HTML as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Semantic Markup for Callouts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Highlight.js Harmful for Your Site? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion