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Yoav's blog thing
Personal blog · blog.yoav.wswebprogrammingdesign
Yoav's blog thing is a personal blog at blog.yoav.ws about web, programming and design. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “So, you don't like a web platform proposal”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, 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 Yoav Weiss's personal blog for posts on web platform standards, such as responsive images and the Web Integrity API proposal. Comments mostly cite its posts as background or sources.
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?
- So, you don't like a web platform proposal5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-07-21
- Responsive image format2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-18
What Hacker News says?
The ideal of an image format the can progessively support different sizes was discussed back when solutions to the responsive image issue were first being sought out e.g. https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/responsive_image_container/ JPEG 2000 already offers the ability to encoded multiple sizes of an image in the same file https://www.verypdf.com/pdfinfoeditor/jpeg-jpeg-2000-compari... I think there was some hope that JPEG…
Comment linking /posts/responsive_image_container/
on “How to think about HTML responsive images”Submitted Responsive image format as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI looked into that in http://blog.yoav.ws/2012/05/Responsive-image-format But image formats are hard, since they require an eco system, investment from large cos, etc. Maybe in a few years...
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on “Native Responsive Images”Submitted So, you don't like a web platform proposal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYoav Weiss has a blog post from 6 days ago on his website. https://blog.yoav.ws/ for a personal blog it has quite a lot of PR speak
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on “Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium”Submitted Deprecating HTTP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'll add to this, notably, issues are still closed after the weekend: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... If this proposal gets rejected it'll be because of feedback in the press that is impossible to ignore. My experience watching how Google has handled contentious issues in the past makes me personally feel that Google will not be receptive to concerns about whether this spec should exi…
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on “Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web”Submitted Images. Can we have less? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's good that it's happening strong & still semi-early-ish. I'd be curious to know how or if Chrome actually manages the PR around their work. Chrome lead fired off a blog post So you don't like a web proposal which effectively says it's purely a technical decision, and that only constructive technical criticism is regarded at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36818409 https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/web_platfor…
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on “Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web”Submitted Contributor to Google's WEI repo: So, you don't like a web platform proposal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBlog post author here. A few clarifications: * I am not a contributor to the repo, and stepped in as chair on the repo after writing this, to help the engineers contributing to it deal with clear spam & abuse cases. I wrote this post with WEI in mind, but nothing about it is specific to this proposal, and could've been applied to multiple past proposals (and probably future ones), either from Google or from other st…
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on “Contributor to Google's WEI repo: So, you don't like a web platform proposal”Submitted So, you don't like a web platform proposal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI take real issue with their occams razor comment under "Don't assume a hidden agenda" [0] > it's often safe to assume that Occam's razor is applicable and the reason it is being proposed is that the team proposing it is trying to tackle the use cases the proposal handles Just because something is initially conceived innocently and in response to a purely technical problem does not mean it wont be co-opted by the pa…
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on “Contributor to Google's WEI repo: So, you don't like a web platform proposal”