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anderegg.ca
Personal blog · anderegg.ca · on HN as GavinAndereggculturedesign
anderegg.ca is a personal blog at anderegg.ca about culture and design. Since 2016, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 80 times, most often “Apple at 50: My journey to the Mac – anderegg.ca”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Something (slightly) less boring than nothing.
Most-linked posts?
- Apple at 50: My journey to the Mac – anderegg.ca3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-01
- WordPress Is in Trouble2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-01-11
- Brains, Fingers, and Crabs – Modes of Software Developer Operation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-05
- Digging into Bluesky DMs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-23
What Hacker News says?
14kB is a stretch goal, though trying to stick to the first 10 packets is a cool idea. A project I like that focuses on page size is 512kb.club [1] which is like a golf score for your site’s page size. My site [2] came in just over 71k when I measured before getting added (for all assets). This project also introduced me to Cloudflare Radar [3] which includes a great tool for site analysis/page sizing, but is mainly…
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on “A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)”Submitted WordPress Is in Trouble as a story · 631 points
HN discussionIn case anyone is looking for some background on this, I wrote this post before seeing the news today. Stuff's not been great in the WordPress community leading up to this point, and Mullenweg deciding to deactivate the accounts of folks who might start new forks certainly isn't helping matters. https://anderegg.ca/2025/01/11/wordpress-is-in-trouble
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on “Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork”Submitted Maybe Bluesky has "won" as a story · 461 points
HN discussionNeat idea. I tried it on my site ( https://anderegg.ca/ ) which already inlines its CSS, and got an error from the underlying library ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/penthouse ): {"error":true,"name":"Error","message":"css should not be empty","stack":"Error: css should not be empty\n at module.exports (/usr/src/app/node_modules/penthouse/lib/index.js:206:14)\n at file:///usr/src/app/server.js:153:31\n at process.pr…
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on “Critical CSS”Submitted YouTube is a mysterious monopoly as a story · 370 points
HN discussionI wrote a piece yesterday about the recent WordPress drama, including this bit. A fun thing I learned while digging into it is that Mullenweg himself requested that the Slack channel for this team be set up live on stage at WordCamp Europe in 2022. When disbanding the team, Mullenweg said, “today I learned that we have a sustainability team”. Maybe he forgot, but setting up this team was — at least in part — his ide…
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on “Mullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash”Submitted Why isn't the <html> element 100% supported on caniuse.com? as a story · 300 points
HN discussionIf you use GitHub Pages, you can then use the built-in local VS Code (“github.dev editor”, which is separate from Codespaces) to create and edit posts. I wrote about it here: https://anderegg.ca/2024/10/16/using-github-as-a-cms I ended up using this on my iPad for the posts I wrote over the Christmas break.
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on “Forget Twitter threads and write a blog post instead (2021)”Submitted ACF has been hijacked as a story · 226 points
HN discussionI ran this early last year when I was doing another coding typeface overview. I picked “Hack”, and wrote about it here: https://anderegg.ca/2023/02/16/typeface-tournament This time I ran it and got “DM Mono”, which went neck-and-neck against Hack. I’m not sure this was in the lineup last time, but it’s a really nice typeface!
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on “Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'”Submitted I guess I'm using WebP now? as a story · 148 points
HN discussionThe thing that bothers me most about this ordeal is there’s now a “hidden license” for WordPress. If Mullenweg thinks you’re not giving back enough, then free software is no longer free. Rather than a specific term sheet and a list of meetings, I would like to better understand when this new license comes into effect. At the moment it seems like it’s only required when Mullenweg is upset with you. I wrote a bit more…
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on “Automattic–WP Engine Term Sheet”Submitted What the heck is /pkg? as a story · 81 points
HN discussionI just learned about the Canon Cat a couple of days ago! I wrote up a blog post with some resources and tidbits: https://anderegg.ca/2025/10/13/the-canon-cat I had a lot of fun with this emulator on Archive.org, and included some quick notes about using it with macOS: https://archive.org/details/canoncat
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on “Recreating the Canon Cat document interface”Submitted Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability as a story · 57 points
HN discussionNice! You can check my site out here: https://anderegg.ca
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Apple and the AI Divide as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI loved Christmas Lemmings so much back in the day! The snowfall visualization and the little Santa lemming clearing it. I made a much less impressive snowfall demo a while back based on that (minus the clearing lemming, because I always wanted to watch the snow pile up). https://anderegg.ca/projects/flake/
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on “Snow Simulation Toy”Submitted Just put some HTML on the web as a story · 25 points
HN discussionhttps://anderegg.ca/ Not a lot here, but I’m trying to write more. Going to go through this tread to bolster my RSS subscriptions!
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Get Yourself a /dev/lunch as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using WordPress Is Risky as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted WordPress, Drama, Leadership, and the Web as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted WordPress Is in Trouble as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's Up with Mastodon and "Referer" Headers? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digging into Bluesky DMs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bluesky Frustrations – Part 2 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bluesky seems to be working on a subscription plan as a story · 4 points
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