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Toolness
Personal blog · toolness.com/wpprogrammingweb
Toolness is a personal blog at toolness.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Beautifully Documented Code”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on annotated source code (the CoffeeScript grammar) and on BrowserCouch, an in-browser MapReduce implementation. Comments only point to these posts.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Beautifully Documented Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-01-08
- Couches in Browsers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-17
What Hacker News says?
[..searching...] Are you talking about code-illuminated? [1,2,3] Interesting approach - works right in the browser. For some reason I prefer docco output. I'm not sure why. Maybe the design is better. Maybe the code being annotated is better. [1]: http://code.google.com/p/code-illuminated/ [2]: http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=441 [3]: http://code-illuminated.googlecode.com/hg/index.html#docs/do...
Comment linking /wp/?p=441
on “Annotated CoffeeScript Grammar”Submitted Beautifully Documented Code as a story · 46 points
HN discussionOriginal blog post about it (with comments) here: http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=580 .
Comment linking /wp/?p=580
on “BrowserCouch is an in-browser MapReduce implementation”Submitted Flexible Membranes and Catch-alls in JavaScript as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ubiquity’s Python Feed Plugin as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running C and Python Code on The Web as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Emotional Design of Firefox as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Couches in Browsers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better web presentations with HTML5 audio, JavaScript and CSS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mercurial Woes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolving Firefox Extensions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ubiquity: Trusting Functionality vs. chrome privileges as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does Privacy Matter? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning and Grammatical Forgiveness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Role of Performance in Online Life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitblob as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1994 (The Web Means the End of Forgetting) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Dashboard for Bugs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coming At You Like A Pydermonkey (Python - Javascript bridge) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript memory profiler from Mozilla Labs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kids and the Open Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jetpack: Summer 2009 State of Security, Part 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ubiquitous Interfaces, Ubiquitous Functionality as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
