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instacss
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instacss
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Observed mentions: 2011-11-10 22:47:55 UTC to 2011-12-09 09:59:45 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Nov 10 | 2011-11-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-11 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 2011-11-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-12 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 12 | 2011-11-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 2011-11-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 14 | 2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-15 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 15 | 2011-11-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 16 | 2011-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 17 | 2011-11-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 18 | 2011-11-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 19 | 2011-11-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 20 | 2011-11-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 21 | 2011-11-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 22 | 2011-11-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 23 | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 24 | 2011-11-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 25 | 2011-11-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 26 | 2011-11-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 27 | 2011-11-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 28 | 2011-11-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 29 | 2011-11-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30 | 2011-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 1 | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2 | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 3 | 2011-12-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 4 | 2011-12-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 5 | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 6 | 2011-12-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 7 | 2011-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 8 | 2011-12-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 9 | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-10 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesFor those that want to install this locally or just to look at the code, see here:
https://github.com/rgarcia/instacss
In Instant CSS, JS, HTML or DOM documentationHere you go :) https://github.com/rgarcia/instacss
Data is scraped mostly from MDN using node-scraper and then thrown into mongodb for storage.
Backend is also node and just provides a json endpoint for pulling the entire db client-side (along with serving up index.html and all the client-side js).
Frontend is all backbonejs, which makes writing the search function pretty insanely simple: https://github.com/rgarcia/instacss/blob/master/static/js/vi...
Both backend and frontend code is organized using requirejs, which I am pretty much in love with.
In InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you hadIt's on my list of todos! https://github.com/rgarcia/instacss/blob/master/static/js/vi...
In Show HN: My 24-hour project, instacss.comShow HN: My 24-hour project, instacss.com
http://instacss.com
(in case DNS update hasn't propagated: http://morning-warrior-3377.herokuapp.com/)
Last night I was annoyed at how slow (and web 1.0-ish) most CSS reference sites seem to be, so I created this. It's basically a scrape of the CSS reference on w3schools, but with client side searching. Feedback is most welcome!
some of the tech involved: node, requirejs, backbone, mongodb
the code: http://github.com/rgarcia/instacss
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