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blackant

75 karma · joined June 22, 2011

Product designer at PlanetScale. Previously GitHub. https://jasonlong.me
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blackant··on SVGs that feel like GIFs
I have an animated SVG on my README that is rebuilt once a day to include the weather and day of the week. Built during jury duty a few years ago :P https://github.com/jasonlong
blackant··on Primer – CSS toolkit and guidelines that power GitHub
mdo mentions this in his recent talk: http://jqueryuk.com/2015/videos.php?s=mdo-ular-css

tl;dr; It makes for cleaner grep results.

blackant··on Identicons
FWIW, there are 360 possible hues, 20 possible saturation values, and 20 possible luminosity values.
blackant··on Ask HN: Should your UX contain 'greyed-out' features?
Meta-question: should Ask HN questions (the primary piece of content on the page) be greyed out?
blackant··on Sublime Text 2 Build 2181
I was excited to read that Iconfactory did the latest icon, but quite frankly, I think the new icon is worse.

My favorite replacement is still this beauty by Daniel Matarazo: https://github.com/dmatarazzo/Sublime-Text-2-Icon

blackant··on Poll: What do you think of Google+?
I know they've shut things down for now, but I'd love an invite for when they open back up. jason at blackantmedia dot com
blackant··on Testing Benford's Law
I can't speak for everyone else, but in this case we were hoping to create something that could stand on its own and (hopefully) grow over time as more datasets are added. The domain wasn't registered just to get on HN - the idea lent itself to a simple site of its own, so why not use a fitting domain name?