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I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry

Shown by remixz on Nov 17, 2012. Click the card to turn it over.

98points

86comments

#223of 1,677 in 2012

Top 14%of 2012 by points

How HN took it

LovedMost comments that take a side are positive

20 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 3 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score +0.47.

Idea: 2 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against

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Clean, well-written code
From 1 comment
- On behalf of all the idiots that decided to rain on your parade, I would like to apologize. All of you should be ashamed. How dare you insult this young person whose only wish is…
  orangethirty on HN
Impressive achievement for a 15-year-old who shipped open source
From 2 comments
- Already at 15 you've done more than (I would wager) most of the people on this site -- you've shipped open source. Congratulations, and ignore the haters. Remember that it…
  nkohari on HN
- Good one! Seriously! For the work you have done according to your age is tremendous. I certainly was not able to do anything even close to it when I was 15. So I'd say, hats off!!
  vaidik on HN
Clear scope focused on one task
From 1 comment
- "Wizardry is a task-based library for GraphicsMagick / ImageMagick that focuses on simplicity and getting one thing done right: processing images." Why I like these words: It's…
  chill1 on HN

Age mention is irrelevant and makes the post about the person
From 3 comments
- Sorry, I don't see that your age is relevant.
  ComputerGuru on HN
- Sure it is, but it makes this submission less about the module, and more about the writer. As someone who was publishing code at a similar age to the OP, I would avoid ever…
  lclarkmichalek on HN
- Oh a 15 year old, how cute. So, what about that module? Why is it special enough to be posted to HN? The age is not relevant. Imagine someone of 36 made this module and included…
  bashzor on HN
Spawning ImageMagick subprocesses may be slower than library bindings
From 1 comment
- One thing to notice about this module is that it's spawning a sub-process out to imagemagic itself. I'm not saying this is good or bad, I'm just pointing it out. There are also…
  Skywing on HN
Light grey text is hard to read
From 2 comments
- You know how I know you're 15? Light grey text on a white background. I remember when I was younger and discovering ImageMagick - a perennial favourite for building little tools…
  ryanbraganza on HN
- The font-weight on your link is very close to being too small to be legible - in Opera on Windows - hello to edge case asshats like me!) And my vision is pretty decent. I know…
  kmfrk on HN

Keep operation order when chaining commands (use a list, not an object)
From 1 comment
- Well done. One question, though: Shouldn't the commands be a list instead of an object? I would think you would want to be sure to keep order for image processing. For instance,…
  SoftwareMaven on HN

Why use this instead of the gm module?
From 1 comment
- Why this instead of gm? https://github.com/aheckmann/gm
  KaoruAoiShiho on HN