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Zack Maril
Personal blog · zacharymaril.com/blogprogrammingwebdata
Zack Maril writes Thoughts on Display, a personal blog at zacharymaril.com about programming, web and data. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Ideas about d3.js (and backbone)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zack Maril's blog posts, such as one on Backbone.Router state-awareness ideas, and his HNSearch-related tools for Hacker News. The comments cite or list these without judging 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.
Thoughts on Display - Zack Maril's Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Ideas about d3.js (and backbone)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-12
What Hacker News says?
I remember geeking out to that when it came out! Since reading that I have been playing around with d3 a good deal to try and be able to make some of the stuff he has. I've been slaving away at this for the past few days actually: http://zacharymaril.com/analytics/ This afternoon, I will put up a better version (this one won't work for you due to some figuration stuff), but this takes in your google analytics data a…
Comment linking /analytics/
on “Bret Victor's live editable game in ClojureScript”Submitted Why I don't have a Facebook account as a story · 21 points
HN discussionFor those using octopress, here is a way to customize your blog so that it will stand out more and address the five minute easy set up problem. This will add like, 2 minutes, tops, to the minimum set up time, but it will be fairly unique. http://zacharymaril.com/blog/2012/02/24/please-please-octopr...
Comment linking /blog/2012/02/24/please-please-octopress/
on “How I built my blog in one day”Submitted Show HN: Visualizing Hacker News comments with d3.js as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI wrote something a few days ago that was inspired by this: http://zacharymaril.com/blog/2012/02/17/who-will-regress-the...
Comment linking /blog/2012/02/17/who-will-regress-the-regressors/
on “Scroogled (2007)”Submitted Who will regress the regressors? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK- Remote/Freelance in Cincinnati. I do data visualization with d3.js and backbone. Open source portfolio (much of my work isn't publicly available): * https://github.com/zmaril/d3.js-boilerplate - get started quickly with d3.js and a ton of other useful libraries. * https://github.com/zmaril/d3-bootstrap-plugins - Bootstrap plugins for d3, do tooltips and popovers easily via d3. Examples: http://bl.ocks.…
Comment linking /d3/
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2012) ”Submitted Abusing Javascript, part ++[+[]][+[]] as a story · 3 points
HN discussion@ZackMaril points to a blog post where he discusses the potential benefits of a Backbone.Router that could provide state awareness to other application objects such as models. Scroll down to the Eidetic backbone section to read more. http://zacharymaril.com/blog/2012/07/10/ideas-about-future-o...
Comment linking /blog/2012/07/10/ideas-about-future-of-d3/
on “Crashlytics Labs announces the release of Backbone.StateManager”Submitted Ideas about d3.js (and backbone) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy path so far with javascript (with examples!): Desire to make neat web pages. Learn enough jQuery so that you can make something move and change colors with maybe two lines of javascript instead of 20. Keep trying to one up yourself in what kinds of cool shit you can make (I use the term shit because you won't be making anything useful persay, but it will be something that will make friends say "Shit, that is cool…
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on “OK -I'm convinced. How do I start programming in JavaScript?”Submitted How to use Github Wiki's locally as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis: http://zacharymaril.com/HN-Visual-Comments/ Wanted to learn d3.js HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555877
Comment linking /HN-Visual-Comments/
on “Ask HN: What are you hacking on instead of watching the Super Bowl?”Submitted Show HN: Visualize your Google Analytics data with Hexbins and d3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou might want to customize your octopress blog some. It helps it to stand out. http://zacharymaril.com/blog/2012/02/24/please-please-octopr...
Comment linking /blog/2012/02/24/please-please-octopress/
on “Why I Hate Five-Star Ratings”Submitted Please, please, please use this gist to customize your Octopress theme as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCoding: http://zacharymaril.com/HN-Visual-Comments/ Thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555877 I don't own a TV and don't really care about pro football so I thought I would learn some d3.js instead.
Comment linking /HN-Visual-Comments/
on “Coding (or watching the game)? Why?”Apps with clickable links: HN Visual Search - http://hnsearch.heroku.com PopDots - http://jflatow.github.com/popdots/ui.html HNInstant - http://hninstant.com HNTop100 - http://HNTop100.com HNSearch Ruby Library - https://github.com/ryanatwork/hacker_news_search HNSearch Topics - http://zacharymaril.com/HNSearch/Topics/testing-api.html HNSearch Mobile - http://hnsearch.mobi Android Ticker Tape - http://www.socialmedi…
Comment linking /HNSearch/Topics/testing-api.html
on “Poll: HNSearch Contest Voting”