Tom Robinson
tlrobinson.net · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Tom Robinson is a programmer who shares small projects and tools, including a JavaScript console bookmarklet, a JSON diff tool and a text recovery demo.
What HN saysHN commenters link his JavaScript console bookmarklet, his gccalc hack that abuses GCC, and his traffic visualization project.
15HN people shared it
7linked it in comments
16stories submitted
416story points
4 years agolast shared
2007people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1JSON Diff tool3 people · 5 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 2JavaScript console bookmarklet for any web page3 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
- 3-= sequoia capital =-2 people · 150 points · first shared 2009 · 45 comments on HN
- 4"Dot Matrix Printer" in Game of Life2 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 5Googlecompare2 people · first shared 2009
- 6Homepage2 people · first shared 2008
- 7Recovering censored text using adobe photoshop cs32 people · first shared 2008
- 8Google has also indexed thousands of publicly accessible Panasonic webcams1 people · 183 points · first shared 2013 · 59 comments on HN
- 9GCCalc: a horrible abuse of GCC1 people · 42 points · first shared 2010 · 6 comments on HN
- 10Game of Life text and image generator generator1 people · 7 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 11Recovering Censored Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript1 people · 7 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
- 12GCCalc: a horrible abuse of GCC (GCC powered calculator)1 people · 6 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 13Multitouch JavaScript “Virtual Light Table” on iPhone v2.01 people · 5 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 14MobileMe and (lack of) encryption1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 15How not to secure your network cameras (warning: bandwidth-intensive)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
tlrobinson · 2010-06-16
Cool. I did a traffic visualization from my apartment on Haight Street on New Years Eve and the first week of January this year. I just had a webcam with some software to detect movement in the middle of the intersection.
http://tlrobinson.net/projects/haightcam/traffic.png
(My R skills aren't great, sorry it's not pretty. The camera also got blocked for awhile around day 5 so it's not exactly scientific)
That first cycle starts mid day on New Years Eve. You can see a big drop in traffic leading up to midnight, then a big increase soon after. Not surprising, but it's always a little gratifying to confirm a hypothesis.
boucher · 2008-04-26
If you're browser supports custom CSS files (which pretty much every browser does), you can just use the following:
a[rel~="nofollow"] {
background-color: rgba(255,0,0,0.10);
//background-color: rgb(255,0,0);//for people without rgba
}
Credit to Tom: http://tlrobinson.net/blog/?p=37
jbert · 2015-06-09
Someone did a nice calculator hack a little while back, based upon an old reddit comment of mine:
http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2007/12/presenting-gccalc-a-horribly-awesom…
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/62v70/first_class_functio…
_delirium · 2010-11-25
It looks like this is the original source, but it's from 2007, not 2010. This 2007 Slashdot article links to the same URL: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/07/1352242. Maybe the current year gets auto-added by whatever CMS he's using? Either that or it's been updated.
Incidentally, while I was looking for that link, I found an implementation in the form of a Photoshop filter: http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2008/10/08/recovering-censored-text-using-a…
ash · 2009-10-07
A short description:
The Console is a JavaScript console in bookmarklet form for executing JavaScript code in any web page. Features auto-completion, line editing, history, and more.
(from http://tlrobinson.net/projects/js/)
mc · 2009-08-16
nice.
Tom Robinson also wrote a similar hack:
http://tlrobinson.net/misc/googlecompare.html
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