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Kyle Mathews
Personal blog · bricolage.ioprogrammingaiweb
Kyle Mathews writes Bricolage, a personal blog at bricolage.io about programming, ai and web. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter linked this Gatsby creator's blog's example site while arguing that the article text should load first and that total page size matters less than progressive enhancement.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Essays by Kyle Mathews about software, AI agents, local-first systems, organizations, and how technology changes the way we work.
What Hacker News says?
San Francisco, remote/local, Full Time | Contract | Part Time Stack: Coffeescript, Backbone.js, React.js, Node.js/Hapi.js, Sass/Compass, Python, Docker Resume: http://bricolage.io Contact: mathews.kyle@gmail.com Extensive background building social and developer tools/platforms. Love working on rich problems with social, IxD, and technical aspects. Recently left startup and looking for next big challenge.
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?”Submitted Hosting static sites with Docker and Nginx as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAs long as the top of the article content (headline + first few paragraphs) loads immediately I don't care if it loads 700kb afterwards for other interactive content. 'Progressive enhancement' should be the primary goal; size reduction is just one means to achieving that but not always required. From testing out one of the example blogs and this doesn't seem to be a UX issue: https://bricolage.io/tools-administer-fa…
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on “Gatsby – A Static Site Generator for React”Submitted Some notes on local-first development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI love this pattern. I've been studying web performance for a while in the context of working on my project Gatsby [0] — a React.js static site generator. The next version of Gatsby is explicitly patterned after PRPL. Gatsby at build time generates a static HTML version of each page. Which makes the initial load time of a Gatsby site super fast. The browser then loads the minimum Javascript necessary to make that pa…
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on “The PRPL Pattern”Submitted Typefaces: The easiest way to self-host open-source fonts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | remote or onsite | San Francisco, CA Seeking projects pushing static sites to their limits. Offline, Service workers, AppShells, PWA, etc. Working fulltime on my open source project Gatsby ( https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby ) and am looking for people who want to build with it. See also my blog post https://bricolage.io/gatsby-open-source-work/
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2016)”Submitted Essential Until It Wasn't as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of Protocols as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build Notes: Creating a Local Lirst Vite/React/ElectricSQL Starter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM Test Runners for Content as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Slack bot to help handle large numbers of PRs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tools to help administer your Facebook Groups as a story · 1 points
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