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Everyday Frontend 🚀
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Everyday Frontend 🚀 is a personal blog at cathalmacdonnacha.com about programming and web. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Tips for developers switching from Windows to Mac”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link posts on this blog about Playwright versus Cypress for end-to-end browser testing, and about migrating a React app from Create React App to Vite. The comments only cite the posts.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Tips for developers switching from Windows to Mac2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-07
- Cypress vs. Playwright: Which is best for E2E testing?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-28
What Hacker News says?
There is also this Github Discussions thread on how it compares with things like Cypress, which is a E2E testing tool used by lots of people on the frontend web. TLDR: Playwright can achieve nearly all the things cypress can & more due to it being a fully scriptable browser - https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/discussions/11201 - https://cathalmacdonnacha.com/cypress-vs-playwright-which-is... - https://alisterb…
Comment linking /cypress-vs-playwright-which-is-best-for-e2e-testing
on “Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox”- cebert · 2022-11-23
Submitted Tips for developers switching from Windows to Mac as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Not OP, but we had issues with SASS that made it difficult to upgrade. It didn't like the M1 architecture when trying to upgrade from Node 12 to Node 18, where as swapping it out for Vite just worked. Given CRA is deprecated, it made sense to move away. I followed a guide[0] which covered most of the things I needed to change and the remaining issues just involved following the build errors. We also saw much-improve…
Comment linking /migrating-from-create-react-app-cra-to-vite
on “Migrating from Create React App to Vite”- mariuz · 2022-05-03
Submitted Cypress vs. Playwright: Which is best for E2E testing? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion Submitted Tips for developers switching from Windows to Mac as a story · 1 points
HN discussion