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Max Böck
Personal blog · mxb.dev/blogwebdesignprogramming
Max Böck's personal blog at mxb.dev covers web, design and programming. Since 2019, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Is the Fediverse too confusing for non-technical users?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Böck's posts on the return of the 90s web and small self-run communities, using webmentions on static sites, and why the IndieWeb suits everyone.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Max Böck is a professional front-end developer based in Vienna, Austria.
Most-linked posts?
- Is the Fediverse too confusing for non-technical users?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-11-13
- Make Free Stuff4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-01-25
- A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-22
- Space Jam: Performance Comparison2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-04
- The Return of the 90s Web2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-18
- IndieWeb Link Sharing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-12
- On Simplicity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-08
- The CSS Mindset2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-05
What Hacker News says?
Interesting read. I made a similar point some time ago im "Return of the 90s web": https://mxb.dev/blog/the-return-of-the-90s-web/
Comment linking /blog/the-return-of-the-90s-web/
on “The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back”Submitted The Return of the 90s Web as a story · 786 points
HN discussion>In my experience over the last decade there are fewer and fewer ways to find a community and any success as a creator of any kind without getting corralled into social media and furthermore getting corralled into being a daily active user / consumer as to not get shadow banned by any given app. Haha, my first thought after reading this comment was that I could've written it myself. I miss internet forums. Also, I'm…
Comment linking /blog/syndicating-content-to-twitter-with-netlify-functions/
on “The benefits of staying off social media”Submitted A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites as a story · 323 points
HN discussionMax's previous post [1] touches on the some of the ideas from the early 90s internet that we're starting to see return today. I'm personally most excited to to watch the return and rise of niche self-run communities that were greatly supressed during the early days of social media. [1] https://mxb.dev/blog/the-return-of-the-90s-web/
Comment linking /blog/the-return-of-the-90s-web/
on “The Whimsical Website Club”Submitted Old dogs, new CSS tricks as a story · 175 points
HN discussionThis appears to be well-meaning (which is to say it's not the usual tautological whinging tech hate for dynamic sites, it appears to come from a place of concern for delivering important information in a crisis). But it's also quite a lot to ask in a crisis . Stuff like this should set off alarms: > I can’t tell you how best to get static—only you can figure that out. Okay. Is this helping? I guarantee anyone respon…
Comment linking /blog/emergency-website-kit/
on “Get Static”Submitted CSS Container Queries in Web Components as a story · 97 points
HN discussionFun fact: the new site loads only about 1s faster than it did in 1996: https://mxb.dev/blog/space-jam/
Comment linking /blog/space-jam/
on “Space Jam's 1996 website has finally been updated”Submitted Going Buildless as a story · 71 points
HN discussionjust my own opinion: webmentions > comments. https://mxb.dev/blog/using-webmentions-on-static-sites/
Comment linking /blog/using-webmentions-on-static-sites/
on “How the Jamstack is failing at comments”Submitted Bringing Webrings Back from the 90s as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThe issue I have with mastodon is that it seems to cater to tech people, but there is an entire outside world. https://mxb.dev/blog/the-indieweb-for-everyone/
Comment linking /blog/the-indieweb-for-everyone/
on “Bye, Twitter”Submitted Make Free Stuff as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is the Fediverse too confusing for non-technical users? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted IndieWeb Link Sharing as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Space Jam: Performance Comparison as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted If we built roads like we build websites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster Horses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Emergency Website Kit (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Don't Write as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The IndieWeb for Everyone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Free Stuff as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Free Stuff as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Free Stuff as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will CSS container queries make media queries obsolete? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webmention Analytics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS Variables: Website Color Theme Switcher as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IndieWeb Link Sharing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The CSS Mindset as a story · 2 points
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