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Web Teacher
Personal blog · webteacher.wswebprogramming
Web Teacher is a personal blog at webteacher.ws about web and programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2020, 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 Web Teacher for its web-development tutorials, such as a post on how CSS specificity is calculated. Comments cite it as a reference for the specificity topic and a women-in-tech blogging piece.
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.
Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development.
What Hacker News says?
I'm guessing that the implementation uses a 32-bit integer for calculating rule strengths as they apply to a selection. With that in mind, 8 bits used for each variable.. so it would make sense that 256 would overflow into the next value. see: http://www.webteacher.ws/2008/05/19/tip-calculate-the-specif...
Comment linking /2008/05/19/tip-calculate-the-specificity-of-css-selectors/
on “256 CSS Classes Can Override an #id”Submitted Interact With Web Standards Curriculum Now at Home at the W3C as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere are other articles that are meant to be lists of female tech bloggers, e.g. http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/3512/ http://www.webteacher.ws/2010/07/06/10-terrific-tech-blogs-b... This article is not one of them. Just because it doesn't answer the question the way you want it to be answered doesn't mean it's "perpetuating the problem". In fact, one of the indirect points of this article is that demanding…
Comment linking /2010/07/06/10-terrific-tech-blogs-by-women/
on “Catch-22: Tech Blogging As a Woman”