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Matt Wilcox
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Matt Wilcox's personal blog at mattwilcox.net covers web, programming and design. Since 2008, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The fundamental problems with CSS3”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this blog for web development writing, including a post arguing that CSS tables are the old table tag in disguise and notes on HTTP/2 connection limits.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Matt Wilcox is an English web developer living in the UK. He writes about it, indulges in creative writing, photography, and hand tool woodwork.
Most-linked posts?
- The fundamental problems with CSS32 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-12-12
- The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-03
What Hacker News says?
There's a limit on the number of simultaneous requests per domain with http1, which will not be present in http2 [0]. This limit meant that for best performance, static files should be served from multiple (sub)domains. [0] https://mattwilcox.net/web-development/http2-for-front-end-w...
Comment linking /web-development/http2-for-front-end-web-developers
on “How I got XSS’d by my ad network”Submitted CSS Lint is harmful as a story · 157 points
HN discussionVery vague article, indeed, looks like they're mainly trying to stir some hype for their book. Praising css tables as "the next big thing" is just backwards. Matt Wilcox has a good article about that misconception: http://mattwilcox.net/archive/entry/id/1030/ The take-home is that css tables are really not much more than the old table tag in disguise - with all the same ties between markup and presentation. If that'…
Comment linking /archive/entry/id/1030/
on “Review of Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong”Submitted The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world as a story · 123 points
HN discussionActual article: http://mattwilcox.net/archive/entry/id/1031/
Comment linking /archive/entry/id/1031/
on “The fundamental problems with CSS3”Submitted The fundamental problems with CSS3 as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trying Zurb Foundation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The ineffectiveness of lonely icons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blocking China as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple has a software problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS needs a bit of basic love as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive Image Elements in HTML, for Responsive Designs as a story · 1 points
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