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Will Boyd

Personal blog · codersblock.com/blogwebdesign

Will Boyd writes Coder's Block, a personal blog at codersblock.com about web and design. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Star Wars Scene Transition Effects in CSS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
9HN people?
2014–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Will Boyd's blog for its CSS and web writing, such as a post on what CSS can animate. One commenter calls the blog beautifully done.

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.

Will Boyd's portfolio and web development blog.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Star Wars Scene Transition Effects in CSS
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. Regarding types check out https://eno-lang.org/javascript/#loaders - basically eno allows arbitrary types on the language level and provides loaders for all primitive types and currently also a small set of non-primitive types through the libraries. The extent of loaders provided out of the box might grow, likely also externalized into companion packages like https://github.com/eno-lang/enojs-exploaders/ , which cur…

    Comment linking /blog/creating-an-autocomplete-plug-in-for-atom/

    on “Show HN: Eno – A lightning fast, user-friendly YAML/TOML alternative”
  2. Submitted Star Wars Scene Transition Effects in CSS as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  3. hot_gril · 2023-01-21Recommends
    This is a beautifully done blog. The author works at Square, according to his info page: https://codersblock.com/about/

    Comment linking /about/

    on “The Surprising Things That CSS Can Animate (2020)”
  4. Submitted Motion Detection with JavaScript as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Surprising Things That CSS Can Animate (2020) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Surprising Things That CSS Can Animate as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Physics-Based Background Scroll Effects as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Fun Times with CSS Counters as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Playing with Infinity in CSS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Star Wars Scene Transition Effects in CSS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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