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evilmartians.com is the company blog at evilmartians.com, writing about programming and startups. Since 2015, 140 different Hacker News readers have linked it 295 times, most often “Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL (2024)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Evil Martians is a developer tools consultancy that helps startups build AI agents, AI-native products, scale infrastructure, and reach product-market fit
Most-linked posts?
- Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL (2024)25 people · 28 mentions · first linked 2022-10-26
- How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2020-12-23
- Ruby on Whales: Dockerizing Ruby and Rails Development6 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2019-07-23
- What I learned as a developer from Soviet accidents in Space5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-01-21
- Soft deletion with PostgreSQL: but with logic on the database5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-05-17
- AnyCable: Action Cable on steroids4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-12-20
- ViewComponent in the Wild: building modern Rails front ends4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-10-13
- Speed up image builds on GitHub Actions with proper Docker layer caching3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-03-11
- Hotwire: Reactive Rails with no JavaScript? [deep dive into the HOTW frontend]3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-04-12
- Better web video with AV1 codec3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-02-26
What Hacker News says?
some nice OKLCH resources: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cone-color-picker-identifier/i... https://sindresorhus.com/system-color-picker https://evilmartians.com/opensource/oklch-color-picker https://oklch.eerolehtinen.fi/ https://github.com/eero-lehtinen/oklch-color-picker
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on “What are OKLCH colors?”Submitted Modern Front-end in Rails as a story · 355 points
HN discussionI found this to be a good article on the subject: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rg... Along with their picker / converter here: https://oklch.com/ Discussed on Hacker News here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073819 (6 months ago, 30 comments)
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on “What are OKLCH colors?”Submitted How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs as a story · 351 points
HN discussionI still recall a time 3 years ago when they didn't even have working webrtc support hah. That’s a long time ago in web years. Things are different now. For example, Safari supports the oklch and oklab color spaces starting with Safari Technology Preview 137, released December 2021. It’s November 2022 and Chrome still doesn’t support them yet, though they are expected to be enabled by default in Chrome 110, due next…
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on “Show HN: A color picker for named web colors”Submitted Web Graphics Done Right as a story · 325 points
HN discussionI learned about it from https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rg... And when I tried it out for myself I was amazed at the color boost. That's when I decided to create a theme!
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on “Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers”Submitted Hands-on WebAssembly as a story · 237 points
HN discussionHere's an interesting approach using rules: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/soft-deletion-with-postg...
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on “Soft deletion probably isn't worth it”Submitted Rails 6: B-Sides and Rarities as a story · 192 points
HN discussionI'm more interested in the concept of ViewComponents than just the current library. It's really just starting with Rails adopting ActionCable and Phoenix using LiveView (which I see as both immature proto-concepts of the future of JS frontends). This blog post (and my linked talk above) opened my eyes on the subject: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/anycable-actioncable-on-... Right now the complexity is a bit hi…
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on “The balance has shifted away from SPAs”Submitted Errors in Go: From denial to acceptance as a story · 190 points
HN discussionYou might want to look at view components: https://viewcomponent.org/ https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/viewcomponent-in-the-wil... https://thoughtbot.com/blog/hotwire-turbo-streaming-viewcomp...
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on “Ruby 3.4.0”Submitted How to GraphQL with Ruby, Rails, Active Record, and No N+1 as a story · 171 points
HN discussionIt's an OKLCH color picker, as well as a converter for other color spaces. https://cmringmaker.github.io/OKLCH-Picker/ https://github.com/cmRingmaker/OKLCH-Picker/ I was inspired by the article over at evilmartians[0] about OKLCH, and I loved their oklch picker. Decided I wanted to learn more about OKLCH by implementing my own tool that I've released this week. Had a lot of fun with this project, and am getting plen…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)”Submitted A no-go fantasy: writing Go in Ruby with Ruby Next as a story · 158 points
HN discussionGoing full solar and wind is going to take some time(20 year-ish?) and in the meantime energy storage will get there in terms of scale and cost. LiFePO4 packs already started trading below $100/kWh in 2020: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/a-no-go-fantasy-writing-... CATL is pushing sodium-ion batteries: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/catls-new-sodium-ion... You don't even need a lot of storage to greatl…
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on “Colorado 'solar garden' is a farm under solar panels”Submitted Ruby Next: A Transpiler for Ruby as a story · 151 points
HN discussionoklch and oklab are much easier to reason about than alternatives. For oklch, The first parameter is the lightness, the second is the chroma (essentially its saturation), and the 3rd is the hue. I find it very easy to tweak colors by making them brighter or more saturated. Unlike lch, such changes in oklch have regular effects on how the color will be percieved. This page has more information: https://evilmartians.c…
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on “The 12-bit rainbow palette”Submitted Better web video with AV1 codec as a story · 126 points
HN discussionOr oklch: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rg...
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on “The 12-bit rainbow palette”Submitted Lefthook: Knock your team’s code back into shape as a story · 103 points
HN discussionThe text reads Humans! We come in peace and bring cookies. We also care about your privacy: if you want to know more or withdraw your consent, please see the Privacy Policy. and links to [0]. Like most websites, also here a lot of analytics is gathered, over which you have little control. [0] https://evilmartians.com/privacy
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on “Web Graphics Done Right”Submitted Adopting Ruby 3 types with RBS as a story · 88 points
HN discussionThese guys ( https://evilmartians.com/ ) sure understands a thing or two about images and image compression. I have used their imgproxy[1] (Golang image resizer) for a long time and it has been solid from the very beginning. [1] https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy
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on “Web Graphics Done Right”Submitted Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL (2024) as a story · 78 points
HN discussionIs there an equivalent to Turbo Mount for Htmx? https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/the-art-of-turbo-mount-h... I think it's one of the best ways to use Hotwire/Turbo. Default to Hotwire to whatever degree of understanding you have, and as soon as it feels like HTMX/Hotwire isn't the right tool, you can easily switch to your framework of choice.
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on “A modest critique of Htmx”Submitted Anonymous web authentication with Stellar blockchain as a story · 68 points
HN discussionhttps://evilmartians.com/chronicles/the-art-of-turbo-mount-h...
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on “Moving on from React, a year later”Submitted Decoding AVIF: Deep dive with cats and imgproxy as a story · 56 points
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