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Christian Heilmann
Personal blog · wait-till-i.comwebprogrammingcareer
Christian Heilmann's personal blog at wait-till-i.com covers web, programming and career. Since 2007, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Thinking lowsrc - How to make sites appear to be available a lot faster”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Christian Heilmann's blog as a source of JavaScript and web design resources, including cheat sheets and a post on rotating a map with CSS3 and jQuery. The comments only link to posts and do not judge the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Thinking lowsrc - How to make sites appear to be available a lot faster2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-07-11
What Hacker News says?
Here are a few links from my bookmark folder on the subject, in no particular order: How to use contrast to your advantage- http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/rule-three-contrast-co... Use colors that have varying intensities, not just differnet colors. Focus on how it looks in greyscale http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/becoming-a-master-desi... Visualizing Fitt's Law http://particletree.com/features/visuali…
Comment linking /index.php?p=464
on “Ask news YC: Your best sources to learn about design & usability”Submitted The road to being a kick-ass public speaker as a story · 33 points
HN discussionhere are some links: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/ http://ajaxian.com/archives/so-you-want-to-write-javascript-... video lectures: http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2007/05/programming-vi... http://www.catonmat.net/blog/learning-javascript-programming... cheat sheets: http://www.wait-till-i.com/2007/06/27/dom-javascript-cheat-s... http://www.scottklarr.com/topic/95/javascriptajax-cheat-shee... combined re…
Comment linking /2007/06/27/dom-javascript-cheat-sheet/
on “Ask YC: decent JavaScript resource and reference sites?”Submitted New Twitter exploit about goats – how it works. as a story · 17 points
HN discussionBlog article about it here: http://www.wait-till-i.com/2010/02/09/rotating-maps-with-css... I had some problems getting it to work at first. To fix it, try using the tab key to get the focus onto the map, then it'll work. Pretty neat!
Comment linking /2010/02/09/rotating-maps-with-css3-and-jquery/
on “Rotating a map with CSS3 and jQuery”Submitted The Developer Evangelist handbook is out as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting rusty – we need new best practices for a different development world as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using HTML5 sensibly and Multimedia on the web as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons why large companies on the web are losing ground as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can we stop with the Ninja and Rockstar hype already? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking lowsrc - How to make sites appear to be available a lot faster as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS challenge: 90 degree turned headings in CSS3 with a fallback? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Missing the point with ie6countdown.com as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A few HTML5 questions that need answering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I don’t write my slides in HTML as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye, Yahoo – it was an awesome time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The prestige of being a web developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mess them up while they are young? The terrible state of web dev textbooks. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Powerful Tools that You Need (and Probably Don’t Know About) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On password fields masking and Jakob Nielsen as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Safer JSON-P? An interesting feature of the Bing API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript shortcut notations as a story · 1 points
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