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Max Schmitt
Personal blog · maxschmitt.me/postswebdesign
Max Schmitt's personal blog at maxschmitt.me covers web and design. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “A Potential Client Almost Cost Me My Google Account”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Max Schmitt's post on toast notifications as a source on overused interface patterns, alongside posts on modals and modes. The linked posts are about UI and UX anti-patterns.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Max Schmitt is a freelance web developer from Germany with over 10 years of experience, specialized in React and Node.js.
Most-linked posts?
- A Potential Client Almost Cost Me My Google Account2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-02
- Toasts are bad UX2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-20
What Hacker News says?
I've been using Dokku for many years. It's remarkably stable and easy to use. I wrote an extensive tutorial on how to deploy various apps and websites with Dokku in 2018 [1] and I'm sure that following the same steps still works 6 years later. 1: https://maxschmitt.me/posts/tutorial-deploy-apps-websites-do...
Comment linking /posts/tutorial-deploy-apps-websites-dokku
on “Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform”Submitted Toasts are bad UX as a story · 702 points
HN discussionHow many other user interactions are generally considered objectively bad practice? Sure, there may be a time and place, but what is frequently overused? Toasts: - https://maxschmitt.me/posts/toasts-bad-ux - https://youtu.be/LeCKu0HqGFQ?si=xKApVFSqdzLGF0SD Modals (being a special case of modes): - https://modalzmodalzmodalz.com/ Modes: - https://www.nngroup.com/articles/modes/ - https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/…
Comment linking /posts/toasts-bad-ux
on “Should I Use a Carousel? (2013)”Submitted A Simple Guide to Calm UI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSuper cool! Love that you can declare the screenshots inline in the markdown document. For my desktop app I created a solution that generates screenshots in multiple languages, light/dark mode, removes noise and adds Windows/macOS window frames. Wrote about it here: https://maxschmitt.me/posts/cakedesk-website-redesign#screen... It's currently a separate script (which is a pain to maintain). I should look into makin…
Comment linking /posts/cakedesk-website-redesign
on “Self-Updating Screenshots”Submitted A Potential Client Almost Cost Me My Google Account as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Plausible Analytics Keeps a Tiny (< 1KB) Tracking Script as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reading Progress Bars Are Bad UX as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Potential Client Almost Cost Me My Google Account as a story · 1 points
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