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House of Nettles
Personal blog · nex-3.com/postsprogrammingweb
House of Nettles is a personal blog at nex-3.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Sass & Less”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for Sass-related posts by a Sass developer, including Sass vs. Less, @extend selector inheritance, and a Ruby Y Combinator explanation, usually as background or further reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A shaded home for stinging plants
Most-linked posts?
- Sass & Less3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-06-17
- Fun with the Y Combinator in Ruby2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-04-28
- A Sociable Web2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-19
- Introducing @extend in Sass3 for easy CSS selector inheritance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-26
What Hacker News says?
Downvoted; really? What part of this reply was uninformative or offensive or off topic? FWIW, I'm one of the developers of Sass: http://nex-3.com/posts/78-chris-eppstein-joins-sass-team
Comment linking /posts/78-chris-eppstein-joins-sass-team
on “Haml & Sass 3 Beta Release”Submitted Haml & Sass 3 Beta Release as a story · 61 points
HN discussionI have tried out both Less ( http://lesscss.org/ ) and Sass ( http://sass-lang.com/ ), but not used either in a big website. It looks like Sass is better – it is more powerful in that it supports more functions and you can optionally use an alternative, less-redundant syntax with significant whitespace and no semicolons. The 2009 post http://nex-3.com/posts/83-sass-and-less by the creator of Sass compares the two, a…
Comment linking /posts/83-sass-and-less
on “Object Oriented CSS”Submitted Haml/Sass 3 Released as a story · 60 points
HN discussionThe selector inheritance with @extend looks especially useful; it makes it much easier to take a DRY approach to CSS. There's a separate blog post on it here: http://nex-3.com/posts/99-selector-inheritance-the-easy-way-...
Comment linking /posts/99-selector-inheritance-the-easy-way-introducing-extend
on “Haml/Sass 3 RC1 released”Submitted Haml & Sass 2.2 Released as a story · 51 points
HN discussionMay I self-promote and suggest Sass ( http://sass-lang.org )? It's much older and less buggy than Less, and the currently-in-beta Sass 3 supports a CSS-style syntax ( http://nex-3.com/posts/96-scss-sass-is-a-css-extension ).
Comment linking /posts/96-scss-sass-is-a-css-extension
on “Single Line CSS”Submitted Haml/Sass 3 RC1 released as a story · 44 points
HN discussionSass 3 will support a desugared syntax: http://nex-3.com/posts/96-scss-sass-is-a-css-extension
Comment linking /posts/96-scss-sass-is-a-css-extension
on “Single Line CSS”Submitted FireSass - Bridging the Gap Between Sass and Firebug as a story · 42 points
HN discussionUnfortunately most professional Ruby work is still done within the Rails framework these days, which more or less binds you to a more traditional OO type style. I do find that in regards to everything other than class/object abstraction my coding style gets more and more functional. Especially when working in a team environment though it's important to stick to some established standards and idioms... That said, Rub…
Comment linking /posts/43-fun-with-the-y-combinator-in-ruby
on “The 'ugliness' of Python - Ruby, Python, functions & objects”Submitted Awesome Syntax Changes in Sass 3 as a story · 35 points
HN discussionThis is what made it click for me: http://nex-3.com/posts/43-fun-with-the-y-combinator-in-ruby
Comment linking /posts/43-fun-with-the-y-combinator-in-ruby
on “How I finally understood the Y Combinator”Submitted SASS gets functions as a story · 26 points
HN discussionthe @mixin delineation is quite deliberate. See Nathan Weizenbaum's comment at the bottom of: http://nex-3.com/posts/83-sass-and-less#comments Also, one of the most powerful features of Sass today is @extend, which is something that Less definitely does not have: http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#ex...
Comment linking /posts/83-sass-and-less
on “Sass vs. SCSS: Which Syntax is Better?”Submitted Fun with the Y Combinator in Ruby as a story · 23 points
HN discussionWhat's the difference between Less and Sass? Don't both almost similar syntaxes and do the same job? EDIT: For anyone else who also want to know more about these two, here's a blog post by Nathan Weizenbaum, the developer of Sass. http://nex-3.com/posts/83-sass-and-less
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on “LESS 1.0 released. Rewritten in Treetop, now with namespaces & accessors”Submitted Powerful Color Manipulation with Sass as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Auto-Compile Sass Files with Sass 2.4 as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sass Now Supports Rack Natively as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing @extend in Sass3 for easy CSS selector inheritance as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sass & Less as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haml and Sass are Split as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Non-Technical Intro to Webmentions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haml 2.0 released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git-Style Automatic Paging in Ruby as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Sociable Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sass 2.4 will now be Sass 3.0 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Sociable Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SCSS: Sass is a CSS Extension as a story · 1 points
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