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Bryce Wray
Personal blog · brycewray.com/posts · on HN as brycewraywebwritingprogramming
Bryce Wray's personal blog at brycewray.com covers web, writing and programming. Since 2019, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Firefox on the Brink?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on web development and browser topics: self-hosting Google Fonts and font privacy, Firefox's market share, Astro's move to MDX, and Tailwind v3.2. Mostly cited as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bryce Wray’s website | Observations, opinions, geekiness
Most-linked posts?
- Firefox on the Brink?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-12-04
- /posts/2020/08/google-fonts-privacy/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-07
- Astro and the Move to MDX2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-31
What Hacker News says?
Shameless plug for two related articles, one about the privacy problems with Google Fonts and the other about self-hosting them (especially if they're variable fonts): - https://brycewray.com/posts/2020/08/google-fonts-privacy/ - https://brycewray.com/posts/2020/08/good-stuff-without-googl...
Comment linking /posts/2020/08/good-stuff-without-google/
on “Self-host your fonts for better performance”Submitted Tailwind CSS v3.2: revisiting my “feature creep” warning as a story · 110 points
HN discussionSorry I didn't respond earlier. Mine isn't a T2 Mac. Also, I've actually been doing some distro-hopping in recent days --- switching among Fedora, the Arch-based CachyOS, and the Fedora-based (and very-early-stage) RakuOS --- and the sleep problem has been consistent among all three. I also have tried Debian, and Debian-based distros, in the past and seen the same issue. I have a nagging feeling that it's something…
Comment linking /posts/2023/09/sound-reasoning/
on “Asahi Linux on M3”Submitted How to make “localhost” slightly less local as a story · 48 points
HN discussionit -is- MDX https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2022/07/astro-move-to-mdx/
Comment linking /posts/2022/07/astro-move-to-mdx/
on “Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites”Submitted Speaking Up for Sass (2021) as a story · 43 points
HN discussionAt least one of them did it, finally. I griped about this in 2019: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2019/11/curmudgeonish-2019/#...
Comment linking /posts/2019/11/curmudgeonish-2019/
on “CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news””Submitted Some of the future is now for CSS as a story · 29 points
HN discussionBoth of those inspired me to write what amounts to an homage, specifically about web development: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2021/01/easy-peasy/ . . . and, as I note in the opening: > I do **not** pretend this is in the originals’ amazing league.
Comment linking /posts/2021/01/easy-peasy/
on “Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)”Submitted Hugo's New CSS Powers as a story · 11 points
HN discussionPossibly some perspective on why NNW gets so much love vs. News Explorer: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2022/04/gems-in-rough-17/#fe...
Comment linking /posts/2022/04/gems-in-rough-17/
on “NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS”Submitted Firefox on the Brink? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHere's Google's 1st hit for "Google Fonts privacy", you can find more: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2020/08/google-fonts-privacy...
Comment linking /posts/2020/08/google-fonts-privacy/
on “Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites”Submitted Really Getting Started with Hugo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou’re welcome. I’ve found it an outstanding addition to mine, too, and have written about it here: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2022/07/pagefind-quite-find-...
Comment linking /posts/2022/07/pagefind-quite-find-site-search/
on “ZincSearch – lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go”Submitted Beta-Testing Cloudflare Pages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are a number of commenting solutions that work with SSGs. Two in particular which may appeal to the HN crowd are Utterances[0] and the more recent giscus[1], each of which uses GitHub services (GitHub Issues and GitHub Discussions, respectively). Assuming your commenters don't have a problem with having to log into GitHub to say something, either of these will work. I've also written in the past[2] about some…
Comment linking /posts/2020/10/conversation-piece/
on “Ask HN: Are blog comments a thing of the past?”Submitted A better way to analyze Web sites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy heart sank a bit when reading the phrase, "absolutely massive amount of new stuff" in Tailwind's release note. I agree with the article that this may be the inflection point where I return to just using Sass. (So far I've been using both.) But Sass has been recently introducing seemingly unnecessary changes in syntax, making their documentation incompatible with existing compiler implementations - and I'm getting…
Comment linking /posts/2021/04/speaking-up-for-sass/
on “Tailwind CSS v3.2: revisiting my “feature creep” warning”Submitted Why I’m staying with Hugo An “interesting” learning experience as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Google Fonts downloads are used for fingerprinting and browser identification: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2020/08/google-fonts-privacy ... ctrl-F for "fingerpr": 0 matches I skimmed the article and it looks like the only thing that's logged is your IP? Calling that " browser identification" seems like a stretch.
Comment linking /posts/2020/08/google-fonts-privacy
on “Google Webfonts Helper – Self-Hosting Google Fonts”Submitted Getting HTTP/3 on Cloudflare with Firefox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne reason you may want to self host your fonts vs Google Fonts is to respect your users privacy. Google Fonts downloads are used for fingerprinting and browser identification: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2020/08/google-fonts-privacy...
Comment linking /posts/2020/08/google-fonts-privacy/
on “Google Webfonts Helper – Self-Hosting Google Fonts”Submitted Firefox on the Brink? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe US government: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/
Comment linking /posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/
on “The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance”Submitted Simplifying Switcheroos as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe article really should be "Everything Is Chrome + Safari", the "Firefox on the brink?"[1] article even shows that Safari has ~37% market share (Although the underlying site[2] currently shows me ~34%.) [1] https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/ [2] https://analytics.usa.gov/
Comment linking /posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/
on “Everything Is Chrome (2023)”Submitted Responsive and Optimized Images with Hugo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat was pretty much my evaluation of Mark Text, as well: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2021/05/trying-mark-text-for...
Comment linking /posts/2021/05/trying-mark-text-for-website-content/
on “A cross-platform Markdown editor focused on speed and usability”Submitted Using iCloud Mail with a Custom Domain as a story · 2 points
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