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Adam Morse
Personal blog · mrmrs.cc/writing · on HN as mrmrsdesignweb
Adam Morse's personal blog at mrmrs.cc covers design and web. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “CSS and Scalability”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Adam Morse's blog for its writing on CSS architecture, especially 'CSS & Scalability', and his work on the Tachyons CSS framework. Commenters recommend it as reading for CSS developers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A collection of work, projects, and writing
Most-linked posts?
- CSS and Scalability4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-23
- Chaos Design2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-08
What Hacker News says?
Indeed an interesting tool. If one keeps the site structure simple enough I think that the no-framework way might fit best. One doesn't have to go as far as for example this site http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com but it made me think about minimalistic css while keeping great device support. I recently read the blog ( http://.ws ) of Adam Morse ( http://mrmrs.cc ) and it gave me some inspiration for my own css s…
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on “Bootstrap 4 alpha”Submitted CSS and Scalability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe founder of the Tachyons css framework has some very similar ideas on his blog. Well worth the dive - http://mrmrs.cc/writing/
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on “The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text”Submitted Chaos Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussion‘CSS & Scalabilty’, Adam Morse. https://mrmrs.cc/writing/scalable-css/
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on “What do I need to read to be a CSS dev?”Submitted Chaos Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe assumption behind your whole argument is wrong. Choosing a typeface is not typography. See: http://ia.net/blog/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period > However using google fonts in your web projects is always a good idea as their cdn's are lightning fast (and they are free). I would argue that the exact contrary is true. Using web fonts in your project is always a bad idea for performance and functionality reas…
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on “It's all about typography”Submitted Before robots take our jobs, please get them to help us do some good work as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"beyond a junior level" -- I doubt this will change your mind, but this post is from the author of Tachyons, a "pre-Tailwinds" competitor that didn't get the same traction: https://mrmrs.cc/writing/scalable-css/ And the tldr is that he downloaded and read the CSS for several major websites at the time (post is from 2016) and they were all hodge-podge of terribleness. Maybe all the devs writing that CSS were junior,…
Comment linking /writing/scalable-css/
on “Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS”There's a good article by the author of tachyons.css which is similar to tailwind, but never got that much attention: https://mrmrs.cc/writing/scalable-css/
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on “Why Tailwind CSS Won”
