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Loren Stewart
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Loren Stewart's personal blog at lorenstew.art covers programming and web. Since 2025, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-10, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Loren Stewart's posts on htmx and hypertext-style web development, progressive complexity in frameworks, and a kanban-board performance comparison that includes Marko.
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Exploring technology and techniques.
Most-linked posts?
- I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-27
What Hacker News says?
As someone who has actually worked on JavaScript frameworks, I think Marko is criminally underrated. The compile-time optimizations are extremely impressive: https://markojs.com/docs/explanation/fine-grained-bundling I was not surprised for example that Marko came out very well in this performance comparison: https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanban-boards
Comment linking /blog/10-kanban-boards
on “Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language”Submitted React is winning by default and slowing innovation as a story · 698 points
HN discussionYes, going from SPA-like libs to hyper text libs is definitely a change in how you use your mind and approach problems. It's like going from OO to Functional-style programming. It really messes with the brain. But eventually you learn to love both paradigms and see the good and both and then you start using both patterns in your code, which really messes with other devs as they see both patterns being used. I've bee…
Comment linking /blog/frontend-event-system
on “HTMX is hard, so let's get it right”Submitted URL-Driven State in HTMX as a story · 304 points
HN discussionThis levels concept resonates with me: https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/progressive-complexity-manife... There are cases where you need more than htmx / datastar, but i like the explicit calling out of when these boundaries occur (e.g. you've exceeded what "islands" can give you), and i like the gravitational pull to lower levels.
Comment linking /blog/progressive-complexity-manifesto
on “htmx: Server Sent Event (SSE) Extension”Submitted I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance as a story · 237 points
HN discussionFour part blog series, start here: https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/llm-tools-1-chatbot-to-agent Full application with authentication and streaming is all set up. All you need is an Open Router API key. Then update the logic in the MCP servers to suit your needs. You'll have your own system up and running quickly.
Comment linking /blog/llm-tools-1-chatbot-to-agent
on “Starter Code for Agentic Systems”Submitted Our Fullstack Architecture: Eta, Htmx, and Lit as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Built the Same App 10 Times as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Fullstack Architecture: Eta, Htmx, and Lit as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Astro: Production Ready middleware using ports and adapters as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agentic Alienation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hx-optimistic: Declarative optimistic updates for Htmx as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Progressive Complexity Manifesto (Astro and Htmx) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progressive Complexity: When Islands Should Be a Continent as a story · 1 points
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