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Ethan Marcotte
Personal blog · ethanmarcotte.comdesignwebwriting
Ethan Marcotte's personal blog at ethanmarcotte.com covers design, web and writing. Since 2017, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “You Deserve a Tech Union”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
I’m Ethan. This is my website. I’m real glad you’re here.
Most-linked posts?
- You Deserve a Tech Union4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-11-04
- AMPersand4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-09-02
- “Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology - time we described it that way3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-19
- The design systems between us2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-07
- Device intervention2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-27
- Blockin' Bots. – Ethan Marcotte2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-12
- A Notional Design Studio2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-28
- All Tomorrow's Parties2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-18
- The Web We Broke2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-12
- On container queries2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-01
What Hacker News says?
This book[1] was a great read on the topic. [1]: https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/
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on “New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike”Submitted Moving on from 18F as a story · 362 points
HN discussionIs this any different to Ethan Marcotte’s technique written from back in April? https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/css-grid-without-max-width/ Used that one myself here: https://rwd.education
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on “Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid”Submitted The Web We Broke as a story · 159 points
HN discussionIt's not about "creative freedom". It's about Google forcing its will on the internet. - You want to be at the top of our search, in the search carousel? You must implement AMP. We don't care how fast or beautiful your website is. Oh, and only news sites may apply. - You want to show people the canonical URL? To show the source of the website? No. We will show that it comes from Google, we will actively try to disco…
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on “Web by Google (TM)”Submitted The Web We Broke as a story · 13 points
HN discussionFor people who use extensions or browsers that block third party JS, AMP pages will take many seconds to load in non-mobile Web browsers. Here is information about some of the other problems with AMP: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider... https://danielmiessler.com/blog/google-amp-not-good-thing/ https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/ampersand/ https://css-tricks.com/need-catch-amp-debate/ https:…
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on “Exploding Git Repositories”Submitted “Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology - time we described it that way as a story · 11 points
HN discussionAlso probably consider blocking them with .htaccess or your server's equivalent, such as here: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/blockin-bots/ All this effort is futile because AI bots will simply send false user agents, but it's something.
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on “OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'”Submitted Unionizing is the only way to introduce a democratic process in your workplace as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> Ahhh, container queries... here at last. For other folks wondering why this is seemingly very important: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/on-container-queries/
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on “WebKit Features in Safari 16.0”Submitted The design systems between us as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSomewhat related, this book is pretty good: https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/ It answers a lot of the questions I see being asked in this thread.
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on “United Wizards of the Coast”Submitted A Notional Design Studio as a story · 4 points
HN discussionReminder (which the article mentions only once in the context of worker productivity and pay growth): https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/
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on “The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker”Submitted You Deserve a Tech Union as a story · 4 points
HN discussionEthan Marcotte's website is a thing of beauty. Check out this article [ https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/not-the-device/ ]. Most of it's well-done¹, but I fell in love with the topographical background. ¹ that table ain't
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on “Ask HN: Examples of beautifully designed websites”Submitted AMPersand as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted All Tomorrow's Parties as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The design systems between us as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against the Protection of Stocking Frames as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Notional Design Studio as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blockin' Bots. – Ethan Marcotte as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Article Best Experienced in the App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive web design turns ten as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accessibility is not a feature as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Device intervention as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On container queries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pattern patter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted All Tomorrow's Parties as a story · 1 points
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