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Mr Speaker
mrspeaker.net · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Mr Speaker is a developer who writes about JavaScript games, browser tools, ClojureScript, and creative coding experiments.
What HN saysHN commenters point to his Hacker News bookmarklet as brilliant and indispensable, and cite his Flappy Bird typing tutor and writer-focused syntax highlighting as prior art.
18HN people shared it
8linked it in comments
39stories submitted
785story points
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Most-shared posts
- 1Flappy Bird Typing Tutor4 people · 213 points · first shared 2014 · 76 comments on HN
- 2"Diff for HN": Update and highlight changes3 people · 234 points · first shared 2011 · 30 comments on HN
- 3Syntax highlighting for writers3 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 4(Nearly) Getting Started with ClojureScript2 people · 10 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 5Parcycle: HTML5/Canvas Particle system2 people · 4 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 6A Minecraft soundtrack for your daily grind2 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 7Even my grandmother got immutability1 people · 53 points · first shared 2011 · 23 comments on HN
- 8Code like you're Notch1 people · 44 points · first shared 2011 · 4 comments on HN
- 9The simple genius of Flappy Bird1 people · 41 points · first shared 2014 · 31 comments on HN
- 10Reducing Map: jQuery vs jQuery vs JavaScript1 people · 36 points · first shared 2011 · 10 comments on HN
- 11Why don't we expire passwords on the web?1 people · 23 points · first shared 2010 · 41 comments on HN
- 12JQuery 1.4 iPhone reference app1 people · 23 points · first shared 2010 · 5 comments on HN
- 13Typesafe Console: A post-mortem of an interesting project1 people · 17 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14Conventional Interfaces: map/reduce and friends1 people · 13 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 15Making Google+ like Twitter1 people · 11 points · first shared 2011 · 2 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
mrspeaker · 2021-10-11
I remember someone had made an early iPhone game out of UI elements (around 2009 ish?). I thought it was such a cool idea, and spent a bunch of time messing around with "ui-elements-as-graphics". My favourite thing I came up with was sine-wave scrollbars: https://www.mrspeaker.net/dev/sinescrollbars/
iambot · 2011-12-28
The bookmarklet i use [1], by @mrspeaker is brilliant and does this as well, check it out, i cant use HN without it now.
[1]: http://www.mrspeaker.net/2011/04/11/hackernews-bookmarklet/
unwind · 2014-03-19
The Flappy interface seems to come from http://www.mrspeaker.net/dev/game/flappy/ (the Typing Tutor), but the gameplay is vanilla. Weird.
dwetterau · 2014-02-16
Neat AI approach to play it. When this first blew up 5 or so days ago I threw together a simple javascript bookmarklet that played the game at: http://www.mrspeaker.net/dev/game/flappy/
It's really poorly formatted and has unused code in it but it was fun to automate and watch. http://pastebin.com/yTmdWgfC
To use it just install the bookmarklet, click on it and then start the game. Press space to make it die.
jasonlotito · 2013-12-26
Prior art:
http://www.mrspeaker.net/2012/03/24/syntax-highlighting-for-writers/
http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/
https://github.com/adib/ColorizeWords
These are all linked to from other comments here. This is not new or unique. Sure, the design is different, and they are probably the first "big" name writing app to include it, but being more popular doesn't mean you invented anything.
ars · 2012-02-08
Here you go: http://www.mrspeaker.net/2009/11/12/how-to-pronounce-live/
A definitive answer to this very important question.
solipsist · 2011-06-19
Here are some of the various HN tools and interfaces I have collected over time:
hckr news - http://hckrnews.com/
Sortable HN - http://hnsort.com/
hnvue - http://www.hnvue.com/
HackemUp - http://www.mrspeaker.net/2011/04/11/hackernews-bookmarklet/
Search Y Combinator - http://searchyc.com/
WWHNS (What Would Hacker News Say) - https://github.com/marcua/wwhns/
HNSearch - http://www.hnsearch.com/
Visual Search - http://hnsearch.heroku.com/#h
Hacker News Resources - http://hnresources.com/
Kalimba - http://hn.embed.ly/
The Best of ... Hacker News - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of
HackRSS - http://www.hackrss.com/
HN Trends - http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/ ;)
joeminkie · 2010-01-14
iPhone link: http://www.mrspeaker.net/dev/jq/ref/