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Adam Argyle
Personal blog · nerdy.devwebdesignprogramming
Adam Argyle's personal blog at nerdy.dev covers web, design and programming. Since 2020, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “One List To Rule Them All – 100 CSS features from the past 5 years”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point readers to Adam Argyle's 'cascading-secret-sauce' post as a guide to modern CSS, and to posts on ex-Googlers and CSS features such as animating height.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Website for Adam Argyle: Teacher, Speaker, CSSWG member, and creator of Open Props and VisBug.
Most-linked posts?
- One List To Rule Them All – 100 CSS features from the past 5 years2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-09-11
- Powerful ways to use CSS variables2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-27
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-08
- Googler... ex-Googler2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-11
- Headless, boneless, skinless and lifeless UI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-18
What Hacker News says?
This should be a good start: https://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce
Comment linking /cascading-secret-sauce
on “CSS Grid Lanes”Submitted Googler... ex-Googler as a story · 1114 points
HN discussionIt's a little dated, but you'll get the idea: https://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce
Comment linking /cascading-secret-sauce
on “The Future of CSS”Submitted CSS Snippets Every Front-End Developer Should Know in 2025 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMaybe they are safe from being laid off, though you never can tell [1]. But it does not mean they enjoy the tension, the demands, the disagreements, etc that likely crop up. At their position, they can afford to not put up with that, not hold onto the enviable salary, like many others doubtlessly and begrudgingly do. [1]: https://nerdy.dev/ex-googler
Comment linking /ex-googler
on “Leaving Google”Submitted Headless, boneless, skinless and lifeless UI as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThat is no longer true! You can do it in CSS with a combination of `@starting-style` and `transition-behavior: allow-discrete`. [1] Another gotcha you'll run into is animating the height. A couple other new features (`interpolate-size: allow-keywords` and `::details-content`) will let you get around that. [2] Modern CSS is awesome. [1] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/entry-exit-animations [2] https://nerdy.dev/ope…
Comment linking /open-and-close-transitions-for-the-details-element
on “Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML”Submitted CSS Infinity Use Cases as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> is that just a meaningless buzzword now? Very much, yes. If anything that word is now a warning sign. Thanks mr. minimal nerdy dev for having me download a minimal 9 MB auto playing header video over my mobile plan on your landing page[1]. This[2] is a better example of "minimalism" (I have to wash my mouth now). Notice something? Not a single mention of the word "minimal" in the entire article. Aaand, developer t…
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on “Custom Bullets with CSS:Marker”Submitted Let the Stagger Experiments Begin as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI followed the one author's blog link: https://nerdy.dev/ It says he enjoys 'minimalism'. I keep seeing this from UX people with these baroque monster websites, is that just a meaningless buzzword now?
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on “Custom Bullets with CSS:Marker”Submitted Customizable Nice <Select> as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAn excellent list of modern CSS: https://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce . There's also https://modern-css.com/ .
Comment linking /cascading-secret-sauce
on “CSS Properties You Should Know for Better Text Designs”Submitted One List To Rule Them All – 100 CSS features from the past 5 years as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis should get you caught up: https://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce
Comment linking /cascading-secret-sauce
on “Ask HN: What CSS do I miss in 2025?”Submitted One List to Rule Them All as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS Focus by Demotion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Headless, boneless, skinless and lifeless UI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 33554432px is the max value ff a CSS length layout unit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why AI Sucks at Front End as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anchor Interpolated Morph (Aim) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted /Nothing-Here as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Type-Safe CSS with @property as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Powerful ways to use CSS variables as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Powerful ways to use CSS variables as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Year, New Site as a story · 1 points
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