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Dion Almaer
Personal blog · almaer.com/blogprogrammingweb
Dion Almaer writes techno.blog("Dion"), a personal blog at almaer.com about programming and web. Since 2007, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 54 times, most often “The Product Engineer”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dion Almaer's blog posts on web and JavaScript topics: a 2008 post arguing that email address alone can be a login, offline web app options Gears and Air, and language and runtime debates.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- One commenter calls his 2008 email-only login post a fun read; another calls his Gears and Air comparison a good summary of their differences.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Product Engineer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-15
- Interview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-01-30
- Being Open is hard, as we have seen this week2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-05
What Hacker News says?
I agree about the three options - and I think (3) would have been the best outcome - because whenever this logo is used, it will most probably be shown as relatively small badge. For example - this blog ( http://almaer.com/blog/ ) is listed as an example of the logo in action on the launch page. I think this page is a good example of my point; at this size, the logo suffers from the '5-becoming-6' problem - it doesn…
Comment linking /blog/
on “W3C HTML5 Logo Unveiled”Submitted Conversation between Steve Jobs and Developers at WWDC 1997 as a story · 89 points
HN discussionIts just my email: http://almaer.com/blog/its-just-my-email-password
Comment linking /blog/its-just-my-email-password
on “How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk (2017)”Submitted How Friendfeed Could Dwarf Facebook and Twitter as a story · 22 points
HN discussionThis is a great option for UX. Here's a fun old post from 2008 (from a former co-worker) on a similar topic: https://almaer.com/blog/its-just-my-email-password You do want to make sure you add enhanced security around changing an account's email address (make them log in again, for example). The analog is forcing people to re-enter their password when changing their password in a more typical username/password syste…
Comment linking /blog/its-just-my-email-password
on “How I Built LoginWithHN”Submitted The new Attack on the RDBMS as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI think this is the interview you're looking for: http://almaer.com/blog/my-interview-with-steve-yegge-on-rhin... As an aside, RingoJS (successor to Helma) is a nice server-side Rhino JavaScript framework.
Comment linking /blog/my-interview-with-steve-yegge-on-rhino-on-rails
on “The Next Big Language”Submitted Diffable; What if GitHub supported it natively? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionarguing about clojure vs. scala is the next big religious war http://www.cio.com/article/print/454520 http://almaer.com/blog/the-next-big-language-theory-practice...
Comment linking /blog/the-next-big-language-theory-practice-and-the-killer-app
on “Ask HN: Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing?”Submitted Node.js now powers services on webOS as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThere was a some interest in something like that ("text/ruby" support via an applet + JRuby) a while back: http://almaer.com/blog/running-ruby-in-the-browser-via-scrip... I remember hearing about it initially, but it doesn't appear to have gotten much traction.
Comment linking /blog/running-ruby-in-the-browser-via-script-typetextruby
on “Why Is No One Writing Language Runtimes?”Submitted Skynet: MapReduce in Ruby as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttp://almaer.com/blog/rotating-java-and-javascript-on-the-s...
Comment linking /blog/rotating-java-and-javascript-on-the-server
on “Is JavaScript becoming a Ruby killer?”Submitted Dion Almaer: The rise and fall of webOS is an epic tale; webOS != Web OS as a story · 4 points
HN discussiongoogle gears or adobe air. here's a good summary of their differences: http://almaer.com/blog/gears-and-air-the-open-source-differe...
Comment linking /blog/gears-and-air-the-open-source-difference
on “Ask HN: Developing an Online/Offline Web App, Where to Start?”Submitted Comparing Native Apps and Web Apps as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHTML5 Drag'n'Drop: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dnd Gears as a Bleeding Edge HTML5 implementation: http://almaer.com/blog/gears-as-a-bleeding-edge-html-5-imple...
Comment linking /blog/gears-as-a-bleeding-edge-html-5-implementation
on “a thread”Submitted Icky? Using strings to add legacy features in languages ("use strict" in JS) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The genius behind the Google 20% time; It isn’t the time as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting our own Direction; Ben and I to move on from Palm as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CommonJS: Bridging client and server; why JavaScript needs first class modules as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will we feel like stick shift drivers? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using node.js to bootstrap a server from client JS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Canvas 3D and Standards as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Almaer re: Next big language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript 2: A Perl 6 disaster, that matters so much more, but wait… as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sun is bleeding; More engineers leave as JavaFX is pimped as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Death of the desktop as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Product Engineer as a story · 2 points
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