Paul Bakaus
paulbakaus.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Paul Bakaus, a web developer who worked at Google, writes about web performance, UI motion, canvas games, and AMP.
What HN saysHN commenters link his canvas games post and his AMP misconceptions article; one disputes his claim that AMP being a Google project is a misconception.
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Most-shared posts
- 1The Illusion of Speed6 people · 20 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 2The Illusion of Motion3 people · 15 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Why Canvas is not an obvious choice for web games2 people · 43 points · first shared 2010 · 23 comments on HN
- 4The Three Freedoms of the Web2 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 5When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared1 people · 236 points · first shared 2015 · 142 comments on HN
- 6Underestimated UI techniques: Morphing1 people · 46 points · first shared 2009 · 11 comments on HN
- 710 Misconceptions about AMP1 people · 40 points · first shared 2016 · 48 comments on HN
- 8Why I Would Hire Game Developers for my Startup1 people · 27 points · first shared 2009 · 24 comments on HN
- 9The web is built to last1 people · 8 points · first shared 2014 · 2 comments on HN
- 10If Walt Disney was running a web business1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 11Is Android good yet?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12Sprite Animations on CSS Transitions1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13MIHTool, the iOS web debugger1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 14Building a PWAMP #0: Introducing the ShadowReader1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Finding music that makes you produvtive1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
callahad · 2016-10-14
> #2: “AMP is a Google project”
This is not a misconception. Literally every AMP "Core Committer" is a Google employee, all contributions are subject to a Google CLA which includes a patent grant, every AMP page must include a third party script hosted by Google, and it's impossible to opt-out of Google's AMP Cache, which preferentially links to and re-hosts your content on Google's servers instead of allowing you to receive and analyze your own traffic.
AMP allows outside contribution, but it is absolutely a Google project.
Edit: This point seems especially disingenuous since the author is a Google employee in Developer Relations: https://paulbakaus.com/about/. His job role is literally "Web Advocacy lead for AMP" https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbakaus.
mindhunter · 2012-11-09
Reminds me of Paul Bakaus' Aves Gaming Engine (also canvas based and isometric view).
He was very active documenting his research on it's performance: http://paulbakaus.com/2010/07/19/why-canvas-is-not-an-obvious-choice-f…