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Christian Hammond
Personal blog · chipx86.blog · on HN as chipx86programmingweb
Christian Hammond writes ChipLog, a personal blog at chipx86.blog about programming and web. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
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2025–2026first – last linked?
Development, data, design, debugging
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I'm pretty happy to see this, as conditionals can really help keep code manageable when trying to define CSS variables or other properties based on combinations of light mode, dark mode, high-contrast, contextual state in a document or component, etc. if() isn't the only way to do this, though. We've been using a technique in Review Board that's roughly equivalent to if(), but compatible with any browser supporting…
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on “CSS now has an if() conditional function”Submitted Use keyword-only arguments in Python dataclasses as a story · 95 points
HN discussionAbout a year ago, I started working on disassembling the NES game Faxanadu. The goal was to fully understand and document the game, and to produce the most thorough understanding of the game yet. It's been fascinating. The game has a two binary scripting languages (one for interactions with items and NPCs, one for NPC/enemy behaviors) and a very interesting graphics rendering layer. At this point pretty much the ent…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)”Submitted AIs Don't Take Showers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review Board: Between Then and Now as a story · 2 points
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