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Tomomi Imura
Personal blog · girliemac.com/blogprogrammingwebhardware
Tomomi Imura writes GirlieMac! Blog, a personal blog at girliemac.com about programming, web and hardware. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Tomomi Imura's sketchnote-style doodles explaining tech topics, including a Git commands guide drawn with cats, plus CSS tricks and notes on programming, ML and data presentation.
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.
Arbitrary Web and Mobile Writing by Tomomi Imura
Most-linked posts?
- Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-17
What Hacker News says?
As with many things, the solution is complex because the problem is complex. Managing code history in a distributed manner, handling conflicts and allowing cooperative coding is not an easy problem to fix. Having said this, Git doesn't make it easy by the terminology and concepts that are used. And also the inconcise UI (you use git reset for a lot of very different actions, some harmless, some very destructive) doe…
Comment linking /blog/2017/12/26/git-purr/
on “Git is too hard”Submitted Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017) as a story · 266 points
HN discussionSee also her sketch notes on other topics ( https://girliemac.com/doodles/ ): - Introduction to Programming & Tools - Machine Learning Regression - Notes from Presenting Data & Information course by Edward Tufte - Notes from The State of Web Platform And her list of other Tech Doodlers & Sketchnote artists to follow ( https://girliemac.com/blog/2021/07/12/microsoft-beginners-sk... ).
Comment linking /blog/2021/07/12/microsoft-beginners-sketchnotes/
on “Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017)”Submitted Responsive UI with Luminosity Level as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's a good idea. I'd probably learn some cool tricks from the internals of the framework too. I found a few here: http://girliemac.com/blog/2011/07/29/five-css-tricks-used-in...
Comment linking /blog/2011/07/29/five-css-tricks-used-in-enyo/
on “Enyo Framework Cross Platform and Cross Browser UI Widgets”Submitted Make your site respond to brightness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Purr: Git Commands Explained with Cats as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardware Hacking for JavaScript Peeps: How I Got My Hands on Breadboards and Stuff as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive Web Made Easier with Chrome DevTools Device Mode as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Legacy Clients as a story · 1 points
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