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Rob Zolkos

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Rob Zolkos's personal blog at zolkos.com covers programming, design and ai. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Deep Dive: How Claude Code's /Insights Command Works”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-04, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
7HN people?
2025–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for front-end CSS articles, including one arguing that vanilla CSS is all you need. One commenter calls its posts go-to reads for avoiding Tailwind.

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.

I design and build software systems that help companies automate their manual processes, enhance their workflows and improve their efficiencies.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Deep Dive: How Claude Code's /Insights Command Works
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-06
  2. Vanilla CSS is all you need
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. hakunin · 2026-09-09Recommends
    I only do front-end dev occasionally, but these are my 3 goto articles that make me lean towards not using Tailwind: 1: https://www.zolkos.com/2025/12/03/vanilla-css-is-all-you-nee... 2: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/subgrid/ 3: https://railsdesigner.com/custom-elements/ (more Rails specific)

    Comment linking /2025/12/03/vanilla-css-is-all-you-need

    on “Shopify acquires Tailwind”
  2. Submitted Vanilla CSS is all you need as a story · 126 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The Making of Fizzy, Told by Git as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Fizzy Design Evolution: A Flipbook from Git as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How Claude Code's /Insights Command Works as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Deep Dive: How Claude Code's /Insights Command Works as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted A Month Exploring Fizzy, "Kanban as it should be" as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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