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Brandon's Blog

Personal blog · brandondong.github.io/blogprogrammingweb

Brandon's Blog is a personal blog at brandondong.github.io about programming and web. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “CSS Turing Machine”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-07, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
6HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its CSS Turing machine post, a demonstration of computation done with only CSS. One commenter cites it as an example in a thread about running code in the browser.

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?

  1. CSS Turing Machine
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-10-01
  2. Git merges can be better
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. larsrc · 2021-01-15
    https://brandondong.github.io/css-turing-machine/ Literally 7 entries further down.

    Comment linking /css-turing-machine/

    on “Why can't I write code inside my browser?”
  2. brandon_bot · 2025-05-28

    Submitted Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript? as a story · 144 points

    HN discussion
  3. brandon_bot · 2026-01-23
    Cool! I did something similar for my personal favorite illusion, the Ames window illusion. Recreated with CSS: https://brandondong.github.io/blog/ames_window/

    Comment linking /blog/ames_window/

    on “CSS Optical Illusions”
  4. mr_tyzic · 2021-01-14

    Submitted CSS Turing Machine as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  5. thunderbong · 2026-06-14

    Submitted Git merges can be better as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. bcaa7f3a8bbc · 2019-10-03

    Submitted Turing Machine Implemented in CSS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. brandon_bot · 2026-06-14

    Submitted Git merges can be better as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. brandon_bot · 2025-12-31

    Submitted My most ridiculous bug of 2025 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. brandon_bot · 2024-08-18

    Submitted Show HN: Turing Completeness of CSS Demo as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. milsebg · 2019-10-01

    Submitted CSS Turing Machine as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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