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Ahmad Alfy

Personal blog · alfy.blogwebprogramming

Ahmad Alfy's personal blog at alfy.blog covers web and programming. Since 2024, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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16mentions?
14HN people?
2024–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2026

This is my blog where I write about software engineering, programming, and other things that interest me.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-24
  2. URLs are state containers
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-01
  3. The HTML Sanitizer API
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-07
  4. Chrome 154 lets iframes size to their content with one line of CSS
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. yawaramin · 2025-11-04
    > D*'s authors are pretty adamant that this is an anti-pattern The Datastar authors are wrong about this. History push is a very important part of the hypermedia-driven application approach. Because URLs are super important. And we want to make sure that the correct URL is shown for the currently-loaded view, and that the view is reproducible given the URL (as much as possible) so that bookmarking and copy-pasting t…

    Comment linking /2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html

    on “</> Htmx – The Fetch()ening”
  2. thm · 2025-11-02

    Submitted URLs are state containers as a story · 512 points

    HN discussion
  3. eequah9L · 2024-10-25
    E.g. https://alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-co...

    Comment linking /2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-content.html

    on “Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content”
  4. damir · 2024-10-25

    Submitted Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content as a story · 228 points

    HN discussion
  5. jicea · 2025-10-04

    Submitted How functional programming shaped and twisted front end development as a story · 134 points

    HN discussion
  6. todsacerdoti · 2025-11-01

    Submitted URL Is Your State as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. acossta · 2026-10-10

    Submitted Chrome 154 lets iframes size to their content with one line of CSS as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. ahmadalfy · 2025-10-18

    Submitted The Cost of URL Design as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. garyhtou · 2026-10-27

    Submitted A select should tell you something as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. ulrischa · 2026-10-12

    Submitted Iframes that fit their content as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. mooreds · 2024-11-09

    Submitted Search Friendly Dropdown Menu as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. janandonly · 2024-10-24

    Submitted Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. todsacerdoti · 2024-10-24

    Submitted Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. subset · 2026-05-18

    Submitted The HTML Sanitizer API as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. thunderbong · 2026-05-07

    Submitted The HTML Sanitizer API as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. ahmadalfy · 2026-04-23

    Submitted Stop Hardcoding Your Timeouts as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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