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Anselm Hannemann
Personal blog · helloanselm.com/writingsprogrammingweb
Anselm Hannemann's personal blog at helloanselm.com covers programming and web. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Anselm Hannemann's posts on GitHub Pages slowness with custom root domains and on CSS micro resets. Commenters flag the GitHub Pages explanation as outdated and push back on the reset approach.
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What Hacker News says?
This article links to [1] as an explanation for the delay, but that article says at the top that Github has since updated their configuration instructions to help people avoid the issue. [1] http://helloanselm.com/2014/github-pages-redirect-performanc...
Comment linking /2014/github-pages-redirect-performance/
on “GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow”Submitted Knowing CSS is mastery to front end development as a story · 215 points
HN discussionIdeally, I don't disagree with the concept behind that approach. Clean, streamlined CSS is nice because it's generally easier to work with. Browser page inspectors help with that, though. You aren't searching up and down a file sheet to figure out what rules are applicable in a given context. Resets (normalize.css or any other) are about consistency. Both between browsers and between projects. When you import one, y…
Comment linking /2014/web-performance-one-or-thousand-media-queries/
on “CSS Micro Reset”Submitted Peter Thiel’s Influence [on us] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Native Scrolling as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seniority and understanding the Web vs. knowing how to use Frameworks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons to stop using CSS Preprocessors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does the individual matter if 100 companies are responsible for 71% of CO2? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 15 Minutes on the Bus as a story · 2 points
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