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Ronalds Vilciņš

Personal blog · ronaldsvilcins.com · on HN as ronaldsvilcinswebdesign

Ronalds Vilciņš's personal blog at ronaldsvilcins.com covers web and design. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Dark mode images without JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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41mentions?
5HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post as an overview of the RSS feeds GitHub provides for repositories and what RSS functionality is available.

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.

Personal notes on web development, design, and building for the web. Practical articles, experiments, and projects by Ronalds Vilciņš.

The author on HN?

ronaldsvilcins · 93 karma · member since 2013

https://www.ronaldsvilcins.com/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Dark mode images without JavaScript
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. tomashertus · 2025-01-16Recommends
    Thank you for the comment! I had no clue that Github has RSS feeds for each repo. For everyone else, I found this article to be super helpful to understand what kind of RSS functionality is available: https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2020/03/26/rss-feeds-for-your-git...

    Comment linking /2020/03/26/rss-feeds-for-your-github-releases-tags-and-activity/

    on “Show HN: I made an open source directory of where to showoff your projects”
  2. Submitted Programming quotes as a story · 98 points

    HN discussion
  3. Free and opensource jamstack themes: https://ronaldsvilcins.com/themes/ Themes for static site generators Hugo & Jekyll I’ve designed and developed.

    Comment linking /themes/

    on “Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell”
  4. Submitted RSS feeds for your Github releases, tags and activity as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  5. I built a free online week number calendar. View ISO week numbers, plan your year. Perfect for project planning and scheduling. https://ronaldsvilcins.com/week-number/

    Comment linking /week-number/

    on a deleted thread
  6. Submitted What Is SameSite Cookie? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Native HTML and CSS Features That Replaced JavaScript as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted What a 2 MB Page Costs Your Visitors as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Illustrations for Your Website as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How to Implement Search in Hugo as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Dark mode images without JavaScript as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Top Monospaced Fonts for Coding as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Technical SEO tools you probably haven’t heard of as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Difference Between Font Formats as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted I Miss the Personal Website as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted HTTP Response Status Codes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted HTML5 Progress Element as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted A11y Tools I Use as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Dark Mode for Your Website as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Optimize your Jekyll powered website with these simple steps as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Getting Organized with Todo.txt as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Growing Your Developer Audience Through Technical Blogging as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Show HN: Egg Timer with customizable presets, sound alerts, and dark mode as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted What Is Schema Markup and How to Implement It as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Create a Theme for Go Hugo as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted How to Create a Theme for Hugo as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted How to add Google Tag Manager code to your Hugo website as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Dark Mode for SVG Favicon as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Dark mode images without JavaScript as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Facebook Advertising Trends in 2020 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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