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Eric Bailey
Personal blog · ericwbailey.website/publishedwebdesign
Eric Bailey's personal blog at ericwbailey.website covers web and design. Since 2022, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Eric Bailey's posts arguing that developer experience and framework choices can hurt users, with a health-service site as the example. Commenters use them as support for points on performance.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Accessibility advocate, writer, developer, and speaker
Most-linked posts?
- Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-02-01
- You Must Listen to RFC 21196 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-06-30
- Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-06
- Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-11
- The five types of people who produce inaccessible code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-16
- Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write alt text2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-16
- A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-09
What Hacker News says?
Nice DX at the cost of UX. The current state of web development has been ruined by putting developer experience over user experience. A great example that was shared on HN a few days ago: https://ericwbailey.website/published/modern-health-framewor... This person couldn't use the site. But at least the developer got to see red squiggles when they didn't format their object properly! If you see "not using JS as much"…
Comment linking /published/modern-health-frameworks-performance-and-harm/
on “Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month”Submitted Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write alt text as a story · 364 points
HN discussionCounterpoint: https://ericwbailey.website/published/modern-health-framewor... Performance does matter to the people who depend on our products. Can we please stop throwing people under the bus in the name of churning out more crap?
Comment linking /published/modern-health-frameworks-performance-and-harm/
on “Svelte 5: Runes”Submitted Aria-label is a code smell as a story · 94 points
HN discussionI think it does matter. Bad software can make peoples lives worse, especially when they depend on it. Really bad software can kill people. Maybe it doesn't matter to the bottom line of a business, but that's a particularly low bar to meet. Take this article for example https://ericwbailey.website/published/modern-health-framewor... Someone in a genuine health crisis seeking help but can't receive it could have deadl…
Comment linking /published/modern-health-frameworks-performance-and-harm/
on “Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment”Submitted You Must Listen to RFC 2119 as a story · 44 points
HN discussionI agree with the article, but think it's poorly written. In a way, it's a bit like the developer work that its criticizing -- overly complex. One of the linked articles is much better and to the point: https://ericwbailey.website/published/modern-health-framewor... My 2c: I've seen good experiences, but a lot more poor ones. I've worked on them and they were n times more expensive for very little benefit. I don't th…
Comment linking /published/modern-health-frameworks-performance-and-harm/
on “The Market for Lemons - Alex Russell on JS frontends”Submitted Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted You MUST Listen to RFC 2119 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted You MUST Listen to RFC 2119 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted You MUST listen to RFC 2119 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub repository landing pages now show an accessibility tab, if provided as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stanislav Petrov as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS-Tricks could be a co-op as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write alt text as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consent, LLM scrapers, and poisoning the well as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I love my slightly smart tiny TV as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My jeans’ metadata may outlive the company that sold them as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The five types of people who produce inaccessible code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The five types of people who produce inaccessible code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yet another metaphor about tech debt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Listen to Rfc2119 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Listen to RFC 2119 as a story · 1 points
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