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Ryan Mulligan

Personal blog · ryanmulligan.dev/blogwebdesign

Ryan Mulligan's personal blog at ryanmulligan.dev covers web and design. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
7HN people?
2022–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2024

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

Why HN links it

The linked post, "Why Tailwind CSS Won", is about Tailwind CSS's popularity over hand-written CSS. The only comment is a CSS code example in a boilerplate debate, with no judgment of the writing.

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.

Passenger through space and time, front-end web builder & bittersweet songs enthusiast

Most-linked posts?

  1. Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-10
  2. CSS Scroll-Triggered Animations with Style Queries
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. troupo · 2023-08-17
    Boilerplate? What do you mean? :root { --gap-default: 2rem; --gap-large: 4rem; ... 30-40 more vars ... } .component1 { margin: var(--gap-default); padding: 0 var(--gap-large); ... more styles like this ... } @media (min-width: 640px) { .component1 { padding: 0 var(--gap-default); } } @media (min-width: 768px) { .component1 { ... other overrides } } /* potentially repeat for other breakpoints ...*/ /* repeat for all…

    Comment linking /blog/layout-breakouts/

    on “Why Tailwind CSS Won”
  2. surprisetalk · 2024-09-04

    Submitted CSS @property and the new style as a story · 534 points

    HN discussion
  3. clairity · 2022-10-11

    Submitted Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid as a story · 137 points

    HN discussion
  4. surprisetalk · 2024-12-27

    Submitted Scrolling Rails and Button Controls as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. surprisetalk · 2024-12-04

    Submitted The Pixel Canvas Shimmer Effect as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. skilled · 2024-05-01

    Submitted Detect JavaScript Support in CSS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. surprisetalk · 2024-03-03

    Submitted CSS Scroll-Triggered Animations with Style Queries as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. beauHD · 2022-10-10

    Submitted Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. tipiirai · 2024-02-12

    Submitted CSS Scroll-Triggered Animations with Style Queries as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. sysadm1n · 2022-08-23

    Submitted The Infinite Marquee as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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