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urbanhonking.com
Personal blog · urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozensdesignprogramming
urbanhonking.com is a personal blog at urbanhonking.com about design and programming. Since 2008, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “The Git Bell: post-commit → ruby → arduino → bell”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's 'ideasfordozens' posts on design and product thinking, such as how design keeps people from noticing big changes, and on tech ideas like GitHub's traffic-light CI.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Git Bell: post-commit → ruby → arduino → bell2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-02-15
- The Github Stoplight2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-07
What Hacker News says?
See also http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2012/06/24/designing-... about how design's goal is to keep people from noticing big changes. Makes "bird in hand" a good strategy for people trying to make a dent in the universe.
Comment linking /ideasfordozens/2012/06/24/designing-for-and-against-the-manufactured-normalcy-field/
on “Redis as a JSON store”Submitted The GitHub Stoplight as a story · 85 points
HN discussionThe brief description of this little Arduino project why did was enough to get me started: http://twitter.com/_why/status/1065757843 I'd love to see it in person. Someone made and documented a similar idea here: http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2009/02/the_git_b...
Comment linking /ideasfordozens/2009/02/the_git_bell_postcommit_ruby_a.html
on “Ask HN: Whats the coolest thing you've seen/done with Arduino?”Submitted The New Altair: Why the Arduino Matters as a story · 52 points
HN discussionnice job and idea. this reminded me of github using traffic lights for their continious integration system. [1] http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2010/05/19/the_github... [2] https://github.com/atduskgreg/GitHub-Stoplight
Comment linking /ideasfordozens/2010/05/19/the_github_stoplight/
on “Show HN: A gong that rings automatically when we get a new client”Submitted The Git Bell: post-commit → ruby → arduino → bell as a story · 25 points
HN discussionThe other half of the venn diagram you describe might be better understood as the manufactured normalcy field. Useful concept for product creators: https://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2012/06/24/desig...
Comment linking /ideasfordozens/2012/06/24/designing-for-and-against-the-manufactured-normalcy-field/index.html
on “The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About [video]”Submitted An Aesthetics Reading List for Programmers as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Early 8-bit Sounds from _why's Bloopsaphone as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes a Programming Language Good: Thoughts on the Extrinsic Factors as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Merb: Routing and Controllers as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tour of the Arduino Internals: How does Hello World Actually Work? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Crazy Knob: Ruby Arduino Controlling the Archaeopteryx Probabilistic Step Sequencer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook Digs Deeper into the Black Hole of Custom Markup as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I've Learned While Writing a Technical Book for O'Reilly as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Failure: How VC Rejection Made Me Remember Why I Fell in Love with Programming as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Thingpunk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Photomosaics in Processing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing Drift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Github Stoplight as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towards a Notation System for Foosball as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Songbird Media Player Integration for Web Pages, a Compendium as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Manufactured Normalcy Field as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted O'Reilly as a bigData company as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Srender: ERB-like templating plugin for jQuery based on Resig's original code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RailsConf 2008 Lightning Talk Roundup: 36 Talks in 3 Days as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Step by Step Guide to Getting Started with Merb and ActiveRecord as a story · 1 points
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