Cool Code Pal
medium.com/cool-code-pal · Personal blog · on HN since 2013
Jenn Schiffer's Medium collection of satirical web development pieces, including the CSS Perverts series and mock advice on JavaScript and CSS.
What HN saysHN commenters call it hilarious and point to its articles as parody of web development, though one comment disputes how the satire should be read.
31HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
28stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1Responsive Web Considered Harmful5 people · 15 points · first shared 2016 · 2 comments on HN
- 2How to write Premium JavaScript4 people · 12 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 3CSS Perverts3 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 4A Call For Web Developers To Deprecate Their CSS2 people · 15 points · first shared 2014 · 3 comments on HN
- 5How Node.js is Going to Replace JavaScript2 people · 14 points · first shared 2013 · 8 comments on HN
- 6The Hassle of Haskell2 people · 13 points · first shared 2014 · 6 comments on HN
- 7A Call for Web Developers to Deprecate Their CSS2 people · 8 points · first shared 2016 · 3 comments on HN
- 8Adding and Concatenating2 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9Eschew text editors and IDEs.1 people · 25 points · first shared 2014 · 15 comments on HN
- 10Become the Best Web Developer you can be in 1 simple step1 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 11What to Expect When Working with a Woman in Technology (2013)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Everything You Need to Know About Apple’s Purchase of FoundationDB1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 13Introducing the HTML5 Table API1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 14How JavaScript Is Going to Replace Node.js1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 15In with the new web technologies, out with the old1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
steveklabnik · 2014-01-28
> Is it true that people actually don't care about keeping ownership over their content?
Sometimes, it can be good for things. Take parody, for instance. My favorite Medium collection is "CSS Perverts"[1], which is basically really silly, fake articles about programming stuff. Sample article: "How Node.js will replace JavaScript."
Because it's on Medium, people are more willing to believe that Jenn is serious, and so she gets confused readers[2], people who are actually quite upset[3], and serious rebuttals[4].
It's one of my favorite things on the internet right now.
1: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal
2: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/cf72b588b1b#ad4c-7315e80e40a4
3: https://twitter.com/jennschiffer/status/424683365980069888/photo/1
4: https://medium.com/p/5133e7296592
franze · 2016-10-12
Another point of view: an exceptional article by Jenn Schiffer "A Call For Web Developers To Deprecate Their CSS" https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/a-call-for-web-developers-to-deprecat… - HN Submit here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691081
clay_to_n · 2015-01-29
Jenn Schiffer also has an absolutely hilarious blog, CSS Perverts: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal
msie · 2014-10-24
Ok, if you see this other post by him it's obvious it's a joke: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/how-to-write-premium-javascript-d01a6…
chilldream · 2014-03-14
No, Jenn Schiffer is firmly anti-satire:
https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/2412631958ef
nl · 2014-01-29
"A Call For Web Developers To Deprecate Their CSS"[1] is most awesome thing I've read this year.
California Style Sheets are a standard, meaning there is a group of people at W3Schools who come up with new properties (like border-radius and box-shadow) every year. For some time, they did not know that the Node group at W3Schools was coming up with ways to update the styling of a page without CSS. Recently, both groups finally met and realized the overlap in functionality and therefore opened a spec to deprecate CSS entirely. That spec became HTML5. The rest of the story is present day. More and more developers are using HTML5, but do not realize the redundancy of using CSS.
[1] https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/1f6430781393