Hacker News Hits

Here be posts I wrote that hit Hacker News and garnered 100+ points or 50+ comments. Stats:

• 34 total posts
• 13,001 total points (average: 382)
• 6,385 total comments (average: 188 )

• Sanding UI 1,300 points, 400 comments
• “We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” 919 points, 513 comments
• You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It 887 points, 444 comments
• Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help 846 points, 333 comments
• What “Work” Looks Like 788 points, 226 comments
• Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables 784 points, 465 comments
• canistilluse.com 555 points, 361 comments
• Inspecting Web Views in macOS 536 points, 140 comments
• Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency 470 points, 241 comments
• Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious 466 points, 132 comments
• Don’t Forget These Tags to Make HTML Work Like You Expect 441 points, 238 comments
• HTML Web Components 440 points, 239 comments
• The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom 432 points, 298 comments
• Examples of Great URL Design 415 points, 157 comments
• Deno is Webby (pt. 2) 407 points, 206 comments
• The Mac App Flea Market 401 points, 151 comments
• The AI Aesthetic 378 points, 176 comments
• The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites 331 points, 147 comments
• How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy 303 points, 243 comments
• The Art of Knowing When to Quit 212 points, 89 comments
• Building Websites With LLMS 193 points, 86 comments
• UI=f(org): UI is a Function of Your Organization 173 points, 113 comments
• HTML Web Components: An Example 150 points, 82 comments
• Can We Stop With the Uptime Percentages? 146 points, 115 comments
• CSS System Colors 141 points, 37 comments
• Deadlines as Technology 134 points, 50 comments
• Useful and Useless Code Comments 126 points, 178 comments
• Dear Software Makers 122 points, 91 comments
• “I’m Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry” 118 points, 131 comments
• The Dock on Mac, From OS 10 to macOS 27 106 points, 76 comments
• Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions 90 points, 68 comments
• Browsers, JSON, and FormData 68 points, 52 comments
• The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made 68 points, 54 comments
• Is It JavaScript? 55 points, 53 comments

“If you don’t get thrashed on whatever the HackerNews of the era is, you haven’t blogged enough.” — Dave Rupert