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Jen Simmons
Personal blog · jensimmons.com/postwebdesign
Jen Simmons's personal blog at jensimmons.com covers web and design. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jen Simmons's posts as learning resources for CSS Grid and new CSS layout, and for browser rendering topics such as Firefox's Quantum Compositor and Servo.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-01-05
- Learn CSS Grid2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-28
What Hacker News says?
Both Jen Simmons and Rachel Andrew have lots of good resources for understanding the new CSS layout techniques. This article of Rachel's is a year old, but will still give you a good understanding of the differences between the two: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/03/30/should-i-use-... Jen's got lots of great links here: http://jensimmons.com/post/feb-27-2017/learn-css-grid , including thoughts about how w…
Comment linking /post/feb-27-2017/learn-css-grid
on “Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid”Submitted Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo as a story · 461 points
HN discussion> I can't wait until Servo gets more stable and feature complete Parts of Servo are being migrated to Firefox. IIRC, Quantum Compositor, mentioned in the blog post, is one of them - you can start using it today! http://jensimmons.com/post/jan-4-2017/replacing-jet-engine-w...
Comment linking /post/jan-4-2017/replacing-jet-engine-while-still-flying
on “Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks”Submitted Modern layouts: Getting out of our ruts as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYeah, my initial reaction was "I can see how these design decisions might make sense, but the blog post is horrible." These kinds of designs typically emerge over a long and windy history and, for someone who was part of that process, it's difficult to coherently describe the final state to an outsider. Good textbook authors have this skill. Most tech blog authors do not. (I think that part of the problem is that pe…
Comment linking /post/jan-4-2017/replacing-jet-engine-while-still-flying
on “Hotswapping Haskell”Submitted I Don't Want “Creative Commons BY” to Mean You Can Rip Me Off as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've tried a lot of the newer tools, of which I like Sketch and Framer the best. However, nothing seems to beat paper+pencil and then directly going to code. Somehow, static design tools have never been able to capture what's possible in web, and what's possible now with canvas, SVG, CSS3 transforms, etc is even more than before. Recently, CSS Grid Layout went gold in major browsers, and Flexbox has been supported f…
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on “Ask HN: How do you design a website in 2017?”Submitted The Firefox Grid Inspector, July 2017 Edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learn CSS Grid as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replacing the Jet Engine While Still Flying as a story · 2 points
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