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9elements
Company blog · 9elements.com/blog · on HN as sippndippwebdesign
9elements is the company blog at 9elements.com, writing about web and design. Since 2009, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Awesome Twitter Visualization with Processing.js”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link 9elements for a CSS rule-ordering guide that groups properties by category, and for HTML5 canvas demo projects. Commenters are mostly praising the demos and the CSS method.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Combining finest craftsmanship with elegant design to ship innovative digital experiences.
Most-linked posts?
- Awesome Twitter Visualization with Processing.js4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-08-04
- Haml-coffee a haml parser that understands coffeescript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-09
What Hacker News says?
Similarly, I've been wanting to make an autoformatter that reorders CSS properties into these categories: https://9elements.com/css-rule-order/ (box model, positioning, typography, etc) I think it's the most useful CSS organization method I've found yet.
Comment linking /css-rule-order/
on “Mergiraf: a syntax-aware merge driver for Git”Submitted Responsive bar charts in HTML and CSS as a story · 140 points
HN discussionReally? Even one from 2009 is pretty impressive. http://9elements.com/io/projects/html5/canvas/
Comment linking /io/projects/html5/canvas/
on “Ridiculous Things To Do With CSS3 Box Shadows”Submitted Why JavaScript web applications should embrace traditional URLs as a story · 118 points
HN discussionClickables: http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/watchlaterapp/id423572879?mt=... http://9elements.com/io/?p=580 http://watchlaterapp.com/welcome
Comment linking /io/?p=580
on “Show HN: Watchlater it's Instapaper for Videos”Submitted JavaScript MVC frameworks: A Comparison of Marionette and Chaplin as a story · 75 points
HN discussionFor those interested, we’ve posted a follow-up with more info on the technical implementation: http://9elements.com/io/index.php/ged-viz-making-of/
Comment linking /io/index.php/ged-viz-making-of/
on “GED VIZ: An HTML5 tool for visualizing economic relations”Submitted Stripe vs. Paymill as a story · 70 points
HN discussionI wonder I've done almost the same writeup (a little more detailed if you want to do machine learning) - and no one cared: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197884 This one here is frontpage HN :-) Feel free to look at my post as well: https://9elements.com/blog/developing-a-week-on-windows-with...
Comment linking /blog/developing-a-week-on-windows-with-wsl2/
on “WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. Still Not Using It?”Submitted GED VIZ: An HTML5 tool for visualizing economic relations as a story · 57 points
HN discussionHow is moving from Flash to HTML 5 going to resolve any of your complaints with a rich media experience? I loved this experience http://9elements.com/io/projects/html5/canvas/ but it's still a closed box and uses up 100% of my cpu (Win XP/Chrome). If we move from flash we are just going to replace those rich experiences with another technology, which has the same issues. You can't turn it off any easier than you can…
Comment linking /io/projects/html5/canvas/
on “"The World is Moving to HTML 5" and Other Flights of Fancy”Submitted Chaplin, an Application Architecture based on Backbone.js as a story · 53 points
HN discussionYES! And we've never looked back. Indepth blogpost here: http://9elements.com/io/?p=551
Comment linking /io/?p=551
on “a thread”Submitted HTML5 Canvas Experiment as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some pragmatic notes on CSS3 matrix3d transforms as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haml-coffee a haml parser that understands coffeescript as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Terrance & Phillip reading fart tweets HTML5 thingy as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maintaining JavaScript applications in the long term as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hosting a ComfyUI Workflow via API as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted What could an iAd look like (incl. sourcode) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our First Experience with Swift as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quit your fucking Job – Why we need to rethink German Company Culture as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overview of rising technologies in 2010 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Awesome Twitter Visualization with Processing.js as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS Border-Radius Can Do That? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go in Production as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: From zero knowledge to web award - this is my story as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-3 might be the iPhone moment for AI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: A technical SEO cheat sheet (and flying astronaut) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why we bet on Elixir and Phoenix as a story · 4 points
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