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Lucian Marin

Personal blog · lucianmarin.com/archive · on HN as lcnmrndesignprogramming

Lucian Marin's personal blog at lucianmarin.com covers design and programming. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Show HN: Monochrome browser”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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23mentions?
7HN people?
2010–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Lucian Marin's personal site for its archive pages on personal projects such as Sublevel, a personal network, and an essay arguing blame is shared by everyone involved.

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.

Python developer and all things design.

The author on HN?

lcnmrn · 839 karma · member since 2012

lucianmarin.com / subreply.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Show HN: Monochrome browser
    3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-06-02
  2. Why Sublevel? The project specs
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-07-30
  3. Peculiar - An icon package made only in CSS
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-09-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. lucianmarin · 2015-05-17
    http://lucianmarin.com/archive/sublevel.html

    Comment linking /archive/sublevel.html

    on “How I do my computing”
  2. lovamova · 2014-06-08

    Submitted Monochrome browser – bringing mobile web apps to desktop as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  3. lovamova · 2012-12-09
    This attitude is as bad as “nobody's fault”. It portraits the same thing, but differently. The truth is that is everybody's fault when a bad thing happens. A more in depth view can be found at http://lucianmarin.com/archive/everybody-fault — I don't want write it twice, so sorry for the link.

    Comment linking /archive/everybody-fault

    on “Everything is my fault”
  4. lcnmrn · 2014-06-02

    Submitted Show HN: Monochrome browser as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. lcnmrn · 2013-10-23
    You set up your elements in HTML, then do the keyframes and reposition the elements in CSS. I did this: http://lucianmarin.com/peculiar/

    Comment linking /peculiar/

    on “Pure CSS3 dancing Bender”
  6. lcnmrn · 2020-12-08

    Submitted Good macOS apps for free as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. lovamova · 2010-11-19
    Here are mine: http://lucianmarin.com/peculiar/

    Comment linking /peculiar/

    on “Demo: Pure CSS GUI icons, no images (experimental).”
  8. lucianmarin · 2015-04-28

    Submitted Monochrome now supports iPhone 6 screen size as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. lcnmrn · 2014-09-09
    I rather use Monochrome http://lucianmarin.com/monochrome/ than that. Why? Because I get the device's "feeling" right there on my desktop.

    Comment linking /monochrome/

    on “Responsive Web Design with DevTools' Device Mode”
  10. lucianmarin · 2014-09-21

    Submitted Nonuser Experience as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. lcnmrn · 2014-06-04
    Yes, they are not anymore. I built a browser recently, everything works as fast as Safari, yet in some cases due to smaller viewport it works faster. http://lucianmarin.com/monochrome/

    Comment linking /monochrome/

    on “WebGL on iOS8 Safari and WebView”
  12. lucianmarin · 2014-08-12

    Submitted The Frictionless Product as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. walterbell · 2014-07-31
    Questions for the site's creator, about http://lucianmarin.com/archive/sublevel.html > No JavaScript. Sublevel works with JavaScript disabled. Dumb phones supported. Sublevel works with Opera Mini. Responsive design. Sublevel works on any devices with a modern browser from smartphones to TVs. Is the lack of Javascript motivated by security or minimalism? > Different than Twitter. Sublevel is not a clone of Twitter l…

    Comment linking /archive/sublevel.html

    on “Sublevel – A personal network”
  14. lucianmarin · 2014-07-30

    Submitted Why Sublevel? The project specs as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. metabren · 2014-07-31
    "Sublevel is to Twitter what Pinboard is to Delicious, Reddit to Digg, Linux to Windows, Android to iOS, etc." http://lucianmarin.com/archive/sublevel.html

    Comment linking /archive/sublevel.html

    on “Sublevel – A personal network”
  16. lcnmrn · 2014-04-15

    Submitted Animated 3D Logo in CSS as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. lcnmrn · 2024-08-11

    Submitted X Calculator as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Brajeshwar · 2014-07-31

    Submitted Monochrome Browser as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. stingraycharles · 2010-09-03

    Submitted Peculiar - An icon package made only in CSS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. lcnmrn · 2014-04-23

    Submitted The Spaceman, a modern Jekyll theme designed for professionals as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. lovamova · 2013-07-01

    Submitted The Future Of RSS Is Microdata as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. lovamova · 2012-08-18

    Submitted Links, not tweets as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. lovamova · 2012-08-09

    Submitted Write more, do more as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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