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Austin Gil
Personal blog · austingil.comwebprogramming
Austin Gil's personal blog at austingil.com covers web and programming. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Make Beautifully Resilient Apps with Progressive Enhancement”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on animating the HTML details element with CSS alone. One commenter says it can now be animated but has no default, and wishes open/close transitions were smooth.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Make Beautifully Resilient Apps with Progressive Enhancement4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-12
- Cookies at the Edge: Not a Baking Blog Post2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-01
What Hacker News says?
You can animate it now. There's no default though which is a bit annoying. I wish we had made it animate open/closed smoothly. https://austingil.com/animating-details-element-with-only-cs... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/S...
Comment linking /animating-details-element-with-only-css/
on “HTML Can Do That”Submitted TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML as a story · 576 points
HN discussionSubmitted SVG favicons have some cool benefits as a story · 197 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is edge compute? as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nuances around location-based programming as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted PX or REM in CSS? Just Use REM as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Beautifully Resilient Apps with Progressive Enhancement as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Deployed My Own Cute Lil' Private Internet (a.k.a. VPC) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted File Upload Security and Malware Protection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stream File Uploads to S3 Object Storage and Reduce Costs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically deploy apps to a VPS with Git triggers and Coolify as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing Obscure Bugs: Apache, Gzip, ETags, & Edge Compute as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Beautifully Resilient Apps with Progressive Enhancement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted WordPress is still pretty darn great as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build HTML Forms Right: Security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build HTML Forms Right: User Experience as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Every CSS Named Color Organized by Palette as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cancel Duplicate Fetch Requests in JavaScript Enhanced Forms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Beautifully Resilient Apps with Progressive Enhancement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make resilient web apps with progressive enhancement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cookies at the Edge: Not a Baking Blog Post as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cookies at the edge (not a baking blog post) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Accessibility More Accessible as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Better Forms for the Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically import SASS/SCSS into every Vue.js component as a story · 1 points
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