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Devel without a Cause Blog
Personal blog · blog.dwac.dev/postswebprogramminggames
Devel without a Cause Blog is a personal blog at blog.dwac.dev about web, programming and games. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “HTML whitespace is broken (2024)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter links a post on HTML whitespace, saying HTML hides a lot of complexity. The thread is about XML as a DSL and document formatting.
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.
Personal blog about software, web tech, programming languages, game design, and whatever else I feel unqualified to discuss.
Most-linked posts?
- HTML whitespace is broken (2024)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-14
What Hacker News says?
Yeah "impedance mismatch" is a good way of putting it. I wouldn't say we fall into the JSON camp at all though, but quite squarely into the XML-ish camp! We just wrap the inner text in quotes to make sure there's no confusion between the formatting of the text stored IN the document and the formatting of the document itself. HTML is hiding a lot of complexity here: https://blog.dwac.dev/posts/html-whitespace/ . We'r…
Comment linking /posts/html-whitespace/
on “XML Is a Cheap DSL”Submitted HTML whitespace is broken (2024) as a story · 131 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML Whitespace Is Broken as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI Capability Gap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Isolating CSS Inheritance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML Whitespace Is Broken as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How a Cat Debugged Stable Diffusion (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
