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Diego Martín Lafuente
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Diego Martín Lafuente writes Minid.net, a personal blog at minid.net about business, design and history. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 69 times, most often “The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal site by Diego Martín Lafuente as an example of a very lightweight page and as a CSS-only framework for iPhone web apps. The comments do not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Diego Martín Lafuente's personal blog about business, design, history, technology, and other topics.
Most-linked posts?
- The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-15
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-24
What Hacker News says?
I changed the format of my blog many times. I came up with this http://www.minid.net and its pleasant to read even on phone. The readers love it and it loads lighting fast. I can say faster than OPs website.
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on “This is a web page”Submitted You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand as a story · 34 points
HN discussionThe future of movies will be promising. [1]: https://www.minid.net/2026/8/2/the-actor-was-the-expensive-p...
Comment linking /2026/8/2/the-actor-was-the-expensive-part
on “Genie 4”Submitted Congratulations on Your Ten Milliseconds as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWith CSS-Grid now you can do practically most of the things without using dozens of CSS properties. I barely use Flex, even. But it's late for current CSS techniques, because I'm abduced to functional CSS ( http://minid.net/2019/04/07/the-css-utilitarian-methodology/ ) and I don't want to look back anymore ( http://minid.net/2019/08/12/in-defense-of-functional-css/ ).
Comment linking /2019/08/12/in-defense-of-functional-css/
on “Old CSS, New CSS”Submitted Real Engineers Dig with Their Bare Hands as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes, fotolog.com doesn't exist anymore but I would gladly elaborate. (full explanation here: http://minid.net/2019/04/07/the-css-utilitarian-methodology/ ) resume: why go with an OO architecture, when you can use inmutable classes and never again repeat the same properties in your CSS files. In the end, you end up developing faster and you can mantain code easily without having to build the entire UI arquitecture in…
Comment linking /2019/04/07/the-css-utilitarian-methodology/
on “Relearn CSS layout”Submitted I changed my view on traditional code review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlso: * http://minid.net/2019/04/07/the-css-utilitarian-methodology/ * https://github.com/meerita/utilcss
Comment linking /2019/04/07/the-css-utilitarian-methodology/
on “Relearn CSS layout”Submitted Three +1s and a Prayer as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> the major stumbling block has been how tailwind is mostly just css translated into its own hard-to-memorize lingo. This is the only problem of tailwind, it relies on its own lingo, as all the OOCSS/BEM projects. When you involve semantics, you will always bring these kind of problems. I covered this problem and I solved it with this approach http://minid.net/2019/04/07/the-css-utilitarian-methodology/
Comment linking /2019/04/07/the-css-utilitarian-methodology/
on “Tailwind CSS v3.0”Submitted She Will Be Back Before September as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Yeah, that's kinda the poster child use case for Tailwind and similar frameworks. Landing pages are all about being jazzy and unique and eye catching, and not so much about code reusability/composability. It doesn't matter, you can have an entire newspaper and perfectly done in functional css with incredible results without having to mastermind any architecture. http://minid.net/2019/08/12/in-defense-of-functional…
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on “Tailwind CSS v3.0”Submitted A 500k-Euro Website as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlthough the article was written by a human and looks full of logical arguments, most of them are not. They're purely emotional arguments: > "You can create a full spec upfront." If you're that naive, I know a guy in a white van who gives out free ice cream! Let me guess, you also believe software estimates are accurate and Santa is real. These doomer articles just make AI development even more popular: https://www.…
Comment linking /2026/9/18/three-plus-ones-and-a-prayer
on “Coding is not solved”Submitted The Utilitarian CSS Methodology as a story · 3 points
HN discussionJS didn't suplanted it from day to night. It was Steve Jobs who killed Flash, not letting Adobe from conquer their new iOS platform. They tried it so hard, even on Android back then, but they failed to deliver something solid. Eventually, both Google and Apple released their SDKs to develop apps, way more solid and faster than running a Adobe Flash player layer on top of the OS. This article shows the jump on techno…
Comment linking /2019/04/07/the-css-utilitarian-methodology/
on “HTML is the Web”Submitted The Startup Graveyard Is Full of Problem Solvers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor those tired of dealing with any OOCSS variant, you can go full functional css http://minid.net/2019/04/07/the-css-utilitarian-methodology/ and say goodbye to !important
Comment linking /2019/04/07/the-css-utilitarian-methodology/
on “CSS's !important was added because of laws about font size for some text”Submitted The One-Person Company Fantasy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis approach never worked for me. Explanation here: - https://www.minid.net/2026/7/14/how-to-automatise-with-ai But in summary: the more bloated your AGENTS.md is, the worse the context consumption gets. The best approach I use is telling the agent to first think about what it needs to do, then choose which rules apply. I got 100% consistency across every area of my projects. In the post there's also a replica of o…
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on “My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality”Submitted Is Blogging Still Worth It in 2026? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's how I do it: - Explanation: https://www.minid.net/2026/7/14/how-to-automatise-with-ai - Git source: https://github.com/meerita/monorepo-nextjs-golang-rust-pytho...
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on “Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?”Submitted The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've learned that creating a solution for a X problem doesn't really scale as I though. I focus more now on creating a neccessity more than trying to solve problems for people. If those needs solve one or several problems, great, but my main focus is to create products that people need, or once they use it they adopt it because it became a neccessity. For those interested I extended my rationale here http://minid.ne…
Comment linking /2019/07/30/on-building-products-for-necessities-instead-for-solving-a-problem/
on “Ask HN: Important nonobvious startup/business lessons you've learned?”Submitted A common UX dilemma with the listings on e-commerce websites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI crafted my own /investigate skill. Think of it as a version of /grill-me where you propose an investigation and dig into it until you come up with a spec backed by evidence. My investigation skill can create one, two, or dozens of probes with benchmarks. Once you're confident in the solution, you can plan and author the investigation, then execute it phase by phase. - Post https://www.minid.net/2026/7/14/how-to-au…
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on “I am done with this shit”Submitted A common UX dilemma with the listings of e-commerce websites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI quit 9 years ago. I am a new person. If you can read spanish (Google Translate will work well), I've described how i've quit smoking. http://minid.net/2012/12/10/como-realmente-pude-dejar-de-fum...
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on “Lungs heal damage from smoking”Submitted On building products for necessities instead for solving a problem as a story · 2 points
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