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Lynn Fisher
Personal blog · lynnandtonic.com/thoughtsdesignprogramming
Lynn Fisher's personal blog at lynnandtonic.com covers design and programming. Since 2018, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Lynn Fisher's personal site, valued for its CSS art and experiments, including the single-div drawings and a yearly rebuild to learn new web techniques. Commenters link it for design inspiration.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Lynn Fisher is a web designer, CSS developer, and artist from Phoenix, Arizona.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-03
What Hacker News says?
Damn, that website is great on its own and it turns out she redesigns/rewrites it every year to learn new web technologies. https://lynnandtonic.com/archive/ Got this bookmarked to click around for inspiration in my free time.
Comment linking /archive/
on “CSS Minecraft”Submitted Ten Years of a Single Div as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI had the honor of seeing her give a talk. She also has a lot of other css projects that are awesome. https://lynnandtonic.com/work/ Also love seeing Phoenix devs mentioned!
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on “CSS Minecraft”Submitted Case Study: lynnandtonic.com 2025 refresh as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI clicked on the link at the top for the designer "Lynn Fisher", it took me to https://lynnandtonic.com/ and I discovered something by chance. I had my Chrome window open with the dev tools and was resizing it, and noticed the logo of a person walking up/down a street depending on which way you resize it. Very cool.
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on “A Single Div”Submitted Case Study: lynnandtonic.com 2018 refresh as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe "about" page is a comment in the HTML source: > This is a CSS drawing experiment to see what's possible with a single div. To learn more about this project: GitHub: https://github.com/lynnandtonic/a-single-div Mozilla Hacks: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/single-div-drawings-with-c... Talk from CSSDay: https://lynnandtonic.com/thoughts/entries/talk-illustration-... Codepen: https://codepen.io/lynnandtonic Mas…
Comment linking /thoughts/entries/talk-illustration-with-css/
on “A Single Div”It's a reaction to how so many new websites are just Wix or Squarespace templates despite all of the new capabilities our browsers have gained; they appreciate how much more accessible web development has become while bemoaning the cost to creativity and expression that came with it. The article links to examples like https://lynnandtonic.com/archive/2019/ or https://optical.toys/ (I personally am quite fond of http…
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on “Developers should embrace creative coding again”https://lynnandtonic.com/ is really well-built and has a distinctive style. Recommend checking it out!
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