bretthopper

POSTS

• There's a Reason Bar Ice Looks Better Than Yours (and You Can Fix It)

  by bretthopper on 7/23/2025, 11:55 PM with 4 comments

• Don't Tolerate Unsolicited Spam

  by bretthopper on 4/16/2025, 1:52 PM with 0 comments

• Kenton's House

  by bretthopper on 5/19/2023, 2:59 PM with 2 comments

• Adventures in Garbage Collection: Improving GC Performance in Our Monolith

  by bretthopper on 4/6/2023, 3:39 PM with 0 comments

• The Mysterious Case of the Fucking Good Pizza (2021)

  by bretthopper on 8/27/2022, 11:25 PM with 0 comments

• Neural network from scratch

  by bretthopper on 1/4/2022, 4:44 PM with 38 comments

• How AI Found Flint’s Lead Pipes, and Then Humans Lost Them

  by bretthopper on 1/3/2019, 3:20 PM with 0 comments

• The Sabermetric Movement’s Forgotten Foremother

  by bretthopper on 2/22/2018, 1:31 AM with 0 comments

• Instagram and Android: Four Years Later

  by bretthopper on 7/5/2016, 3:30 PM with 0 comments

• 21 Is an Open Source Library for the Machine-Payable Web

  by bretthopper on 6/11/2016, 11:49 PM with comments

• Streamlining the Sign-In Flow Using Credential Management API

  by bretthopper on 6/7/2016, 4:20 AM with 1 comments

• Solving the cash problems from self-funding rapid growth

  by bretthopper on 4/2/2016, 12:06 AM with 20 comments

• An Open Letter to My CEO

  by bretthopper on 2/20/2016, 3:56 AM with comments

• Employee benefits at Basecamp

  by bretthopper on 1/11/2016, 4:17 PM with 0 comments

• Fisticuffs – data binding framework for Swift, inspired by KnockoutJS

  by bretthopper on 12/18/2015, 8:07 PM with 0 comments

• Timing attack against HSTS to sniff browser history in Chrome and Firefox

  by bretthopper on 10/27/2015, 1:46 AM with 94 comments

• MH17 – The Open Source Evidence

  by bretthopper on 10/15/2015, 12:44 PM with 0 comments

• Burnout is in the Mind

  by bretthopper on 1/7/2015, 6:34 PM with 6 comments

• Show HN: Raise Your Flag – Start an awesome career without a degree or diploma

  by bretthopper on 9/23/2014, 3:33 PM with 9 comments

• Benchmarking JSON Generation in Ruby

  by bretthopper on 5/23/2014, 7:44 PM with 14 comments

• Grand National 2014: Humans beating horses in race to get faster

  by bretthopper on 4/4/2014, 1:31 PM with 0 comments

• DataBall

  by bretthopper on 2/6/2014, 5:04 PM with 14 comments

• Bedrock: a modern WordPress stack

  by bretthopper on 12/18/2013, 5:47 PM with 42 comments

• Demystifying the Ruby GC

  by bretthopper on 11/22/2013, 4:28 PM with 0 comments

• Twelve-Factor WordPress App

  by bretthopper on 11/18/2013, 11:09 PM with 0 comments

• Optimizing TLS Record Size and Buffering Latency

  by bretthopper on 10/24/2013, 9:08 PM with 0 comments

• Speed up your sites with PageSpeed for Nginx

  by bretthopper on 4/25/2013, 8:08 PM with 1 comments

• Manti Te’o’s Dead Girlfriend, Inspirational Story Of College Football, Is A Hoax

  by bretthopper on 1/16/2013, 9:44 PM with -1 comments

• Is the Free-Radical Theory of Aging Dead?

  by bretthopper on 1/16/2013, 9:10 PM with 0 comments

• Stray es and politicos

  by bretthopper on 11/23/2012, 5:39 PM with 1 comments

• You keep using that word "meritocracy"

  by bretthopper on 10/16/2012, 12:13 AM with 96 comments

• Raise “hell”: Better Programming Through Error Messages

  by bretthopper on 9/14/2012, 2:17 PM with 0 comments

• How to Write a Malcolm Gladwell Book

  by bretthopper on 8/5/2012, 4:20 PM with 61 comments

• Spry: Obnoxiously Easy iOS Development With RubyMotion

  by bretthopper on 5/8/2012, 2:56 PM with 20 comments

• Kickstarter: rails.app

  by bretthopper on 3/28/2012, 9:06 PM with 164 comments

• The developer's guide to browser adoption rates

  by bretthopper on 10/14/2011, 3:30 PM with 0 comments

• Startup Visa Canada aims to upgrade immigration policy

  by bretthopper on 8/29/2011, 5:46 PM with 1 comments

• Wait, what does your startup do? ("it's like ___ for ___" generator)

  by bretthopper on 8/9/2011, 11:16 PM with -1 comments

• Rethinking CSS Grids

  by bretthopper on 8/8/2011, 1:04 PM with 15 comments

• HTML5 Parsing in IE10

  by bretthopper on 7/7/2011, 12:57 AM with 2 comments

• IE10 Platform Preview 2 is Out with More HTML5 and CSS3 Goodness

  by bretthopper on 6/29/2011, 7:26 PM with 0 comments

• Socket.IO 0.7 released

  by bretthopper on 6/21/2011, 2:27 PM with 0 comments

• JSON Hijacking

  by bretthopper on 5/30/2011, 7:54 PM with 0 comments

• Roots: a starting WordPress theme based on HTML5 Boilerplate and Blueprint

  by bretthopper on 3/28/2011, 3:04 PM with 0 comments

• The Current State of HTML5 Forms

  by bretthopper on 3/21/2011, 8:19 PM with 56 comments

• HTML5 Boilerplate 1.0 Released

  by bretthopper on 3/21/2011, 4:54 PM with 1 comments

• Kern.js - kerning library based on lettering.js

  by bretthopper on 3/8/2011, 7:54 PM with 0 comments

• Chrome 10 is now stable

  by bretthopper on 3/8/2011, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• Koala SVG magic powered by d3.js

  by bretthopper on 3/1/2011, 3:28 AM with 1 comments

• Paul Irish on HTML5 Boilerplate

  by bretthopper on 2/8/2011, 4:46 PM with 0 comments

• Using Deferreds in jQuery 1.5

  by bretthopper on 1/31/2011, 6:56 PM with 6 comments

• Hackers & Painters Predictions

  by bretthopper on 1/28/2011, 6:11 PM with 0 comments

• Tips for jQuery Bug Patching

  by bretthopper on 1/26/2011, 8:55 PM with 0 comments

• 11 More Things I Learned from the jQuery Source

  by bretthopper on 1/19/2011, 5:24 PM with 1 comments

• Mother-effing hsl()

  by bretthopper on 1/5/2011, 5:26 PM with 34 comments

• Google + Chrome videos from Japan

  by bretthopper on 1/4/2011, 6:30 PM with 0 comments

• The Rise of the New Global Elite

  by bretthopper on 1/4/2011, 4:30 PM with 0 comments

• Marc Cuban living the Google Lifestyle

  by bretthopper on 12/10/2010, 6:40 PM with 3 comments

• Yepnope: a conditional JS polyfill loader

  by bretthopper on 11/4/2010, 7:25 PM with 0 comments

• Google's mod_pagespeed for Apache

  by bretthopper on 11/3/2010, 4:28 PM with 3 comments