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Stephanie Eckles
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Stephanie Eckles writes Modern CSS Solutions, a personal blog at moderncss.dev about web and design. Since 2020, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Modern CSS Solutions”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link moderncss.dev as a resource for modern CSS, with topic pages and articles on features like grid, aspect-ratio and registered properties. One commenter calls it one of the best educational resources for modern CSS.
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.
A series examining modern CSS solutions to problems Stephanie Eckles (@5t3ph), a seasoned frontend developer, has been solving for 15+ years.
Most-linked posts?
- Modern CSS Solutions4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-05-26
- Modern CSS for Dynamic Component-Based Architecture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-10
- Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-22
What Hacker News says?
As someone who really enjoys working with CSS, but also working with colleagues who struggle with it, I strongly recommend Kevin Powell’s YouTube channel. He has touched on exact feature a few times, here’s a video he uploaded a week ago that shows one useful feature that registered properties enables: https://youtu.be/U8NykwZNbGs There’s also this article that breaks down registered properties with an easy-to-follo…
Comment linking /providing-type-definitions-for-css-with-at-property/
on “CSS @property and the new style”Submitted Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades as a story · 242 points
HN discussionThere are a number of sites that aggregate some things, here is one https://moderncss.dev/topics/ Recent survey of what people use to learn CSS: https://2025.stateofcss.com/en-US/resources/ CSS Tricks article on this: https://css-tricks.com/how-to-keep-up-with-new-css-features/
Comment linking /topics/
on “Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with”Submitted Modern CSS for Dynamic Component-Based Architecture as a story · 6 points
HN discussionGrid is really nice: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_La... People are finding all sorts of fun things to do with it: https://web.dev/one-line-layouts/ and https://moderncss.dev/3-popular-website-heroes-created-with-...
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on “Aspect-ratio is great”Submitted Modern CSS for Dynamic Component-Based Architecture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis site which was posted here a while back is great, it's up to date and explains the concepts CSS is based on clearly with examples using Codepen so you get to see both the HTML and CSS as well as the result, plus you can open them in Codepen to edit them yourself. I've been doing CSS for close to a decade and learnt quite a few things from reading through it :) https://web.dev/learn/css/ This site has a bunch of…
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on “What do I need to read to be a CSS dev?”Submitted Contextual Spacing for Intrinsic Web Design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI didn’t pay close attention to the domain and I thought it was the other one: https://moderncss.dev/ One of the best educational resources for modern CSS. BTW, one of the ways I love modern CSS is front-end performance. Among other things, it allows you to make smaller DOMs. I talk about a modern CSS technique that does that here: https://op111.net/posts/2023/08/lean-html-markup-with-modern... It is an idea I start…
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on “Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015”Submitted Twelve Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern CSS Solutions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing Feature Support for Modern CSS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Custom CSS Property Values Are Computed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Container Query Units and Fluid Typography as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pure CSS Custom Styled Radio Buttons as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern CSS Upgrades to Improve Accessibility as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern CSS Solutions for Old CSS Problems as a story · 1 points
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