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Trys Mudford
Personal blog · trysmudford.com/blogwebdesign
Trys Mudford's personal blog at trysmudford.com covers web and design. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts appear to cover front-end tooling tradeoffs, such as the growing spread of GraphQL into client-side code and CSS build size with Tailwind. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My core skills are in semantic HTML & CSS, progressively enhanced JS, PWA's, web performance, Vue.js & React, static site generation and generally putting the user first.
What Hacker News says?
Have you examined the build artifacts of a site using tailwind? The size of the CSS is often smaller than the same styling in "normal" hand written CSS. There are a dozen blog posts from large engineering orgs that have confirmed that switching to Tailwind slimmed their builds down. Shopify has been a big proponent of Tailwind and they are absolutely obsessed with shipping as little code as possible because of the s…
Comment linking /blog/i-spent-a-day-making-the-website-go-2ms-faster/
on “Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1”Submitted Building a JavaScript Guitar Pedalboard as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> Is someone forcing you to use it against your will? I mean, kind of? My problem with GraphQL isn't necessarily GraphQL itself, but with the sprawl of things creeping further and further into client-side code. As companies are finding GraphQL to "unlock greater developer productivity", it's becoming more and more expected to have this in our toolkit as "front-end people". There's been a few blog posts recently that…
Comment linking /blog/i-think-im-a-design-engineer/
on “SwiftGraphQL – A GraphQL client that lets you forget about GraphQL”Submitted Currying in CSS? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sick of Slack as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prioritising Requirements as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Human Review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Light-Dark() as a story · 1 points
HN discussion