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Geoff Graham
Personal blog · geoffgraham.mewebdesign
Geoff Graham's personal blog at geoffgraham.me covers web and design. Since 2023, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Goodbye, CSS-Tricks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's CSS posts on width and height behaviour, and a post on CSS-Tricks going quiet. The CSS comments question the reasoning rather than praise it.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Goodbye, CSS-Tricks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-19
- /width-looks-outward-height-looks-inward/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-11
- Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-15
What Hacker News says?
The more relevant post is by Geoff himself. https://geoffgraham.me/why-css-tricks-has-been-quiet/
Comment linking /why-css-tricks-has-been-quiet/
on “CSS-Tricks in Limbo”Submitted CSS Is Logical as a story · 86 points
HN discussionIs it really true to begin with? I mean, yes, naively setting height: 50% vs. setting width: 50% will do different things but that's not because height and width are doing anything differently fundamentally[0], as OP claims[1], but because the containing block's (and their containing block's etc.) default values for width/height differ: By default, block elements grow in height (fit their content) but take up a widt…
Comment linking /width-looks-outward-height-looks-inward/
on “CSS Is Logical”Submitted Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> width looks up the tree while height looks down the tree. Why is this the case? Neither this post nor the linked https://geoffgraham.me/width-looks-outward-height-looks-inwa... explain the rationale for this concept. In this particular case, the difference between the behavior of width and height rules seems arbitrary, rather than logical.
Comment linking /width-looks-outward-height-looks-inward/
on “CSS Is Logical”Submitted Failures and Open Doors as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf I had to hazard a guess this might be a cost-cutting measure on Stripe's part similar to cuts on content marketing that other companies have done. DigitalOcean divested from CSS Tricks [0], and there was an article earlier today about Amazon shutting down DPReviews [1]. Maybe the Stripe founders gave the IndieHackers folks a chance to spin it off again as opposed to shutting down. [0] https://geoffgraham.me/goodb…
Comment linking /goodbye-css-tricks/
on “Indie Hackers is indie again”Submitted Distinguishing Technology from Technology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Knockout Blow for LLMs? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye, CSS-Tricks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm not a blogger, but I play one in real life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Modern CSS? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye, CSS-Tricks as a story · 1 points
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