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Stoyan Stefanov
Personal blog · phpied.com · on HN as ssttoowebprogramming
Stoyan Stefanov's personal blog at phpied.com covers web and programming. Since 2007, 53 different Hacker News readers have linked it 72 times, most often “535 ways to reload the page with JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Stoyan's blog
Most-linked posts?
- 535 ways to reload the page with JavaScript5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-08-10
- MHTML - when you need data: URIs in IE7 and under5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-04-23
- Location = location and a 534 other ways to reload the page with JavaScript3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-20
- JavaScript-style object literals in PHP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-25
- Oversharing with the browser’s autofill2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-13
- /give-png-a-chance/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-31
What Hacker News says?
haha, I guess I also reinvented the wheel a few months later :) http://www.phpied.com/oversharing-with-the-browsers-autofill...
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on “Browser auto-fill phishing”Submitted 535 ways to reload the page with JavaScript as a story · 184 points
HN discussionHere's another older one with sample of 12000 random images off the web http://www.phpied.com/give-png-a-chance/
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on “Essential Image Optimization”Submitted Command-line CSS spriting as a story · 55 points
HN discussionYou can avoid the extra request for an image using a data URI - http://www.phpied.com/data-uris-mhtml-ie7-win7-vista-blues/ The main advantage of CSS is that you can change the color and appearance of components without using a graphics package, and they might scale better. But that's about it. It was a technical exercise rather than a proof of concept. The icons themselves are very simple and limited. I wouldn't re…
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on “Demo: Pure CSS GUI icons, no images (experimental).”Submitted JavaScript-style object literals in PHP as a story · 42 points
HN discussionActually, PNG 8 is better for that 1px graphics: http://www.phpied.com/give-png-a-chance/
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on “The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF”Submitted Font-Face Toggler Bookmarklet as a story · 39 points
HN discussionOr if you use firefox, hide things with CSS in your profile's `userContent.css` I've been using this for years to hide everything that's not video: ytd-app #guide, ytd-app #page-manager ytd-browse, ytd-app #secondary, ytd-app #comments { display: none !important; } #hnmain .subtext { visibility: hidden !important; } Source: https://www.phpied.com/defining-user-styles/
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on “Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations”Submitted YSlow-er? New YSlow! as a story · 9 points
HN discussionyeah, possibly. This is old reasearch [1] with oldish minifiers (e.g. no UglifyJS) and only one script - jQuery from 5 years ago. However I don't expect large discrepancies if the reseasrch is duplicated with new modifiers and larger sample. What would be more interesting is to see the results of the different minifications. E.g. how much you get from simply removing comments and whitespace? How much if you also ren…
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on “Security concerns with minified JavaScript code”Submitted 535 ways to reload the page with JavaScript as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOne thing... Mobile Safari didn't use to cache anything over 15KB uncompressed. http://www.phpied.com/iphone-caching/ (No idea about more current versions of iOS or browser-caching on other mobiles OSs.)
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on “Show HN: Minified.js – a fully-featured, 4K alternative to jQuery and MooTools”Submitted Audio sprites as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI ran into some minor glitches trying to install and use DeepSpeech couple of days ago. I’m sure they’ll be fixed soon enough but meanwhile hope this helps: https://www.phpied.com/taking-mozillas-deepspeech-for-a-spin...
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on “A TensorFlow implementation of Baidu's DeepSpeech architecture”Submitted Image optimization - 7 mistakes as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSteve definitely kicked "high performance" into overdrive at Y!, but he's one of many people who have contributed from Yahoo: Stoyan Stefanov write weekly about performance on his blog http://www.phpied.com/ and actually just released "Web Testing Framework" at Velocity which is a YSlow plugin. Nicholas Zakas wrote "High Performance JavaScript" ( http://www.amazon.com/Performance-JavaScript-Faster-Applicat... ) and…
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on “Yahoo Lets Loose With a Boomerang - Automatic Website Testing”Submitted 535 ways to reload the page with JavaScript as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA few seconds of googling turns up these relevant articles on how browsers paint via GPU (which date back many years): - https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/gpu-acc... - https://www.urbaninsight.com/article/improving-html5-app-per... - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f... and also how they handle painting and redrawing in general: - https://www.phpied.com/rendering-repaint…
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on “You Really Don’t Need All That JavaScript [video]”Submitted JavaScript shell scripting as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI seriously doubt it. You only remove 1 extra request with this technique. The main advantage is that you don't have to maintain a sprite image (but using this without some tool would also be cumbersome). IMHO one saved request isn't work doing the same thing twice. And MHTML ( http://www.phpied.com/mhtml-when-you-need-data-uris-in-ie7-a... ) doesen't come as a saviour either, as you have to duplicate all images in…
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on “Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete”Submitted Llms.txt: agent-optimization wishful thinking as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI don’t know about the brain but it’s good for the final results in my experience coding, writing and composing (orchestral music). The results are better and it takes less time if I start with pen and paper before “committing” to the computer. One of my favorite authors Jennifer Egan also writes fiction on paper (non-fiction articles still on the computer). More thoughts: https://www.phpied.com/starting-in-the-anal…
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on “Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain”Submitted AI's "streaming text" UIs: a how-to as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://www.phpied.com/form-auto-fill-bookmarklet/ My take on the problem from 2006 :) Mike, hope your project can pick up an idea or two
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on “Show HN: FormFiller – A JavaScript bookmarklet for repopulating forms”Submitted The last line-height you’ll ever need as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFair point, but I try to avoid second-guessing what's best for companies other than my own to do. For all I know, the bandwidth savings are greater than the cost of the engineer who implemented it. That said, there may be a workaround for IE7 via MTHML. http://www.phpied.com/mhtml-when-you-need-data-uris-in-ie7-a...
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on “Digg shows Multipart XMLHttpRequest prototype”Submitted When did blog comments die? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's largely a matter of personal preference, but an important consideration is that using site.com will mean any cookies served from site.com will also be served on any subdomains. For more reading on the subject: http://www.phpied.com/www-vs-no-www-and-cookies/ "Basically you should always use www if you're planning to use any other sub-domains and you want them cookie-free."
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on “Ask HN: www.site.com or site.com?”Submitted 5 years later: print CSS still sucks as a story · 3 points
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