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Frank M Taylor
Personal blog · blog.frankmtaylor.comwebprogrammingwriting
Frank M Taylor's personal blog at blog.frankmtaylor.com covers web, programming and writing. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-14, 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 a post reviewing the code and design of a site called America by Design, which they describe as a dumpsterfire and suspect was vibecoded. The comments judge the subject, not 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.
Welcome to my blog. Everything else is annoyingly long and wordy, so I'll lay it out for you: My name is Frank M. Taylor On the internet people call me Paceaux (pronounced Paco) I write for fun I mostly write about web things I don't write with AI and I don't let it scan theRead More
What Hacker News says?
It's like a dumpsterfire caught in a hurricane https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/08/28/america-by-design-i...
Comment linking /2025/08/28/america-by-design-is-deplorable-for-all/
on “America by Design”Submitted A Rant about Front-end Development as a story · 125 points
HN discussionI'm 100% convinced this was vibecoded I was doing a write-up on it from looking at the code and about 3/4's of the way through I realized, "there's no possible way a human was this bad." https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/08/28/america-by-design-i...
Comment linking /2025/08/28/america-by-design-is-deplorable-for-all/
on “America by Design”Submitted A small guide for naming stuff in front-end code as a story · 98 points
HN discussion- you guys write such nice blogs but i cant seem to ever get a list of all the posts on your blog in 1 go - https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/archive doesnt work - https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/archives nope - https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/posts nada - https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/all nil - https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/blog nyet - do you understand that most of us got 10000+ bookmarks and it would be really really han…
Comment linking /blog
on “You don't know HTML Lists”Submitted CSS Tip: An em isn't an "m", but an ex is an "x" (2012) as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deadly Sins of Enterprise Software [video] as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don't know HTML Lists as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS Hyphens, Words, Syllables, and Languages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing CheapState as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Someone Called Me about Comcast’s Service as a story · 1 points
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