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Lee Meichin
Personal blog · leemeichin.com/postsprogrammingculture
Lee Meichin writes lee meichin, a personal blog at leemeichin.com about programming and culture. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as the author's earlier write-up on conditional git configuration, which a commenter says they wrote about 3 or 4 years before the HN thread.
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.
Special topics in software development, artificial intelligence, internet culture, agile practices, infrastructure, coaching, work, mental health. By Lee Meichin.
Most-linked posts?
- Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-03
What Hacker News says?
I love how the internet collectively discovers obscure git config and writes about it. I wrote this about 3 or 4 years ago detailing exactly the same: https://www.leemeichin.com/posts/conditional-git-config.html
Comment linking /posts/conditional-git-config.html
on “Conditional Git Configuration”Submitted Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS as a story · 536 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of Ensloppification as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yes, I can query a SQLite database in CSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching to Elixir as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Have No Mouth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lemmings as a story · 1 points
HN discussion