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tumbledry.org is a personal blog at tumbledry.org about programming and culture. Since 2009, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Screw Hashbangs: Building the Ultimate Infinite Scroll ”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on building infinite scroll that keeps the back button working, using progressive enhancement and the history API instead of hashbangs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Screw Hashbangs: Building the Ultimate Infinite Scroll 6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-05-12
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-29
- BMW ads: "I feel a deep, smothering, let-down at the promise of futurism"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-11
What Hacker News says?
I really took to heart this article about building a thoughtful, useable infinite scroll that doesn't break the back button. https://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building I think photo blogs are a good place to use infinite scroll.
Comment linking /2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building
on “Stop Infinite Scrolling”Submitted 9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM as a story · 303 points
HN discussionThis feels a bit like my "9 million hits per day" article from a while back: http://tumbledry.org/2011/08/31/9_million_hits_day_with_120 & http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2945185 Now, with 11% more hits! :)
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on “10 Million hits a day with Wordpress using a $15 server”Submitted Screw Hashbangs: Building the Ultimate Infinite Scroll as a story · 214 points
HN discussionThis dentist had it all figured out 3 years ago http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592741
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on “Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll?”Submitted Increasing Your Conversation Skills as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI think Alex Micek's infinite scroll is the most impressive I've seen - progressively-enhanced and doesn't break the back button: http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building . Impressive bit of work from a dentistry student.
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on “Coding Horror: The End of Pagination”Submitted BMW ads: "I feel a deep, smothering, let-down at the promise of futurism" as a story · 8 points
HN discussionFor those wanting to see an interesting approach to solving this problem (not written by me): http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building Associated HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592741
Comment linking /2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building
on “Coding Horror: The End of Pagination”Submitted Screw Hashbangs: Building the Ultimate Infinite Scroll as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's a fairly good article on implementing this that solves many of the problems at http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building previously discussed on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592741
Comment linking /2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building
on “Ask HN: Please stop making infinite scrolling websites”Submitted When Information Overwhelms Facts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot easy, but doable, especially on a straightforward design: e.g. http://tumbledry.org/
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on “The ﹤main﹥ element”Submitted Why the New MacBook Pro Will Cost You Twice as Much as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLet it be known that some have cut off the top of their text before ALA 5.0 (myself included: http://tumbledry.org ). I like this design because it's opinionated, and I think we should wait to completely judge until they are done and have polished it.
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on “A List Apart 5.0”Submitted 5 Things About Television as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"Also, it hurt. Seriously: Try holding up your arm as if you’re looking at your watch. Now count to 30." My analysis of the muscles involved in holding up a watch here: http://tumbledry.org/2015/01/08/apple_watchs_wrist_position
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on “iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch”Submitted iDrive Ads as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI explained them in a post about a year ago: http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building which was discussed here: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592741
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on “It's About The Hashbangs”Submitted Apple Watch and Human Anatomy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou don't need to use hashbangs or fragments for this, you just implement some javascript to not visit links, but change the page with javascript, then change the url to the new one. Your links are still linkable, and you can still have dynamic pages. As for search engines, if the site is a web app, they shouldn't be indexing it. Look at http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building for how this would wor…
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on “Its About The Hashbangs”Submitted 13 Years to 1.0: Building an 80 Year Blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think this is the best one I've seen so far. http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building
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on “Introducing awfulness.js”Submitted WebKit & Gecko :hover Bug as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI do agree with the general sentiment here, that people should try to historically put their lives in context: our instant access to information is unrivaled in any history of which we are aware. However, I've written before on the important difference between information and facts ( http://tumbledry.org/2009/11/20/when_information_overwhelms ) -- when the filter for publishing and disseminating bits becomes so low,…
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on “The Knowledge Age – Learn To Appreciate It”Submitted Graphing Your Emotional Life as a story · 1 points
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