Pablotron
pablotron.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Paul Duncan (Pablotron) writes about JavaScript, Ruby tools, tiny binaries, and networking opinions, and published PersistJS.
What HN saysHN links it for the PersistJS client-side storage library, the Wirble IRB tool, and the classic OSI 7-layer burrito joke page.
15HN people shared it
11linked it in comments
6stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1PersistJS: Cross Browser Client-Side Persistent Storage Without Cookies4 people · 5 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 2To hell with the OSI 7 Layer Model3 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 3Don't Use ExtJS2 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 4Tiny Binaries (2021)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 5GitHub Enshittification1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 6Fastest JavaScript HTML Escape1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 7Tiny binaries redux1 people · first shared 2023
- 8Persist js1 people · first shared 2008
- 9Wirble1 people · first shared 2010
- 10Post 281 people · first shared 2010
What HN people wrote when they linked it
bcRIPster · 2013-07-29
I can never see the term OSI an not think of this classic. It gave me and friends a good laugh back in the day ;p
(original site down but this is a mirror)
http://pablotron.org/files/7_layer_burrito.html
angryasian · 2011-06-21
this biggest issues is the licensing with Sencha/Extjs vs jquery mobile. I would stick with jquery to be safe or understand your product and hopefully any future uses of your product. They had issues in the past.
http://pablotron.org/?cid=1556 - old but relevant.
keefe · 2010-07-10
Have you considered adding support for additional persistence layers?
http://pablotron.org/?cid=1557 This guy claims to have unified quite a number of them, I have not tested it.
mblakele · 2010-06-28
In the past I have used PersistJS (http://pablotron.org/?cid=1557) for this. Are there reasons to prefer one or the other of these libraries?
wedesoft · 2010-02-21
Apart from 'irb/completion' I use 'wirble' [1] for colour highlighting of the output in Ruby/IRB [1]. I had to modify it to get it to work with Ruby 1.9 though [2]. I don't think anybody has done syntax highlighting for input.
[1] http://pablotron.org/?cid=28
[2] http://www.wedesoft.demon.co.uk/downloads/wirble.rb
mahmud · 2009-11-23
http://pablotron.org/?cid=1557
Pablotron persists to other "backends" for none html5 browsers:
* flash: Flash 8 persistent storage.
* gears: Google Gears-based persistent storage.
* localstorage: HTML5 draft storage.
* whatwg_db: HTML5 draft database storage.
* globalstorage: HTML5 draft storage (old spec).
* ie: Internet Explorer userdata behaviors.
* cookie: Cookie-based persistent storage.
nickb · 2008-08-16
You might wanna read this:
http://pablotron.org/?cid=1556
and this:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9878693-16.html
peter_d_sherman · 2023-06-15
seiji · 2008-12-31
When looking for the talk slides, I found http://pablotron.org/software/persist-js/ too.
I haven't had a chance (or need) to use it yet.
fs111 · 2011-04-05
OSI? Really? http://pablotron.org/files/7_layer_burrito.html
pbogdan · 2010-07-22