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xfive
Company blog · xfive.co/blogdesignweb
xfive is the company blog at xfive.co, writing about design and web. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “ITCSS: Scalable and Maintainable CSS Architecture (Updated)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Xfive is a web development agency whose blog posts on Inverted Triangle CSS (ITCSS) are linked in HN discussions of CSS architecture. Commenters also mention the company's remote work and contracting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
For 20+ years, Xfive has helped companies design, build, and grow digital products through better decisions across the entire product lifecycle.
Most-linked posts?
- ITCSS: Scalable and Maintainable CSS Architecture (Updated)3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-10-21
- Itcss: Scalable and Maintainable CSS Architecture (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-16
- Snowboarding for Geeks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-14
What Hacker News says?
> Whatever Pagespeed or Lighthouse might say, we haven't found minification to be a big benefit when we turn it on. Minify CSS Potential savings of 20 KiB Minify JavaScript Potential savings of 82 KiB The benefit is less data going over the wire. I get it--100 KiB doesn't sound like much these days, especially given the page weight of almost 800 KiB. But it's still an extra 100 KiB that doesn't need to be transferre…
Comment linking /blog/itcss-scalable-maintainable-css-architecture/
on “Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites”Submitted Snowboarding for Geeks as a story · 299 points
HN discussionI've come to the conclusion that writing CSS is an anti pattern I don't think this is true. The biggest problem is people who write CSS do it as if they want CSS to be something else and are trying to force it to be that. Writing CSS using ITCSS (Inverted Triangle CSS) [1] solves so many of the issues devs complain about it. It's simple: create layers in specificity order. Don't fight the cascade; make it work for y…
Comment linking /blog/itcss-scalable-maintainable-css-architecture/
on “CSS's !important was added because of laws about font size for some text”Submitted Snowboarding for Geeks: An Ultimate Guide (2018) as a story · 160 points
HN discussionI recommend learning about BEM and Inverted Triangle CSS (itcss) approaches. ITCSS dramatically improved how I write css as it naturally works with the cascade and removes most duplicate efforts. https://www.xfive.co/blog/itcss-scalable-maintainable-css-ar... https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-solv... Also, css-tricks.com is a great resource and a hub of the css community. SCSS / Sass is the mos…
Comment linking /blog/itcss-scalable-maintainable-css-architecture/
on “What do I need to read to be a CSS dev?”Submitted Testing Angular faster with Jest as a story · 6 points
HN discussionTo avoid CSS inheritance & specificity, the "Cascading" part of CSS is the actual root of all evil. The Cascade is CSS’a superpower. If only someone would come up with a way to write CSS to make the cascade work for you, not against you. Oh wait; that would be Inverted Triangle CSS. [1]: https://www.xfive.co/blog/itcss-scalable-maintainable-css-ar...
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on “The Evolution of Scalable CSS”Submitted AI is a tool. Don't try to make it a teammate as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI got my start remote working with X-Team ( https://x-team.com ) and their sister company X-Five (then called XHTMLized) ( https://www.xfive.co ) I don't know if they have any openings currently but definitely worth checking them out in my opinion.
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on “Who is hiring remote workers?”Submitted Snowboarding for Geeks: An Ultimate Guide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionXHTMLized rebranded as Xfive last year: https://www.xfive.co/blog/xhtmlized-has-rebranded-to-xfive/ I would definitely recommend their services as well. I previously worked as a contractor (mostly on internal backend systems) for XHTMLized and their sister company X-Team, and have used XHTMLized (before the rebrand) for a client project of my own. Edit: just read the last part of the OP. You will absolutely get what…
Comment linking /blog/xhtmlized-has-rebranded-to-xfive/
on “Ask HN: Is there a website to submit designs to be converted to HTML/CSS/JS?”Submitted Craft perfect websites with Chisel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOne more thing I find baffling is the preference to ignore the cascade… and seeing it as a benefit. The cascade is where the value of CSS comes from! It’s an incredibly powerful concept. I use and love the Inverted Triangle CSS (ITCSS) approach and write a fraction of the CSS code I used to. Having a few utility classes, using variables for project-specific colors, breakpoints, spacing, using fluid typography, grid,…
Comment linking /blog/itcss-scalable-maintainable-css-architecture
on “Why Tailwind CSS Won”Submitted Website Maintenance Packages: 19 Popular Plans Compared as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ITCSS: Scalable and Maintainable CSS Architecture (Updated) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Use RFP in Product Development (If You Have To) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we used Figma to reconstruct our website as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Figma is the best for designer-developer cooperation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy-To-use Code Blocks in WordPress as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Should Stop Supporting IE10, IE9 and IE8 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Handmade to AI-Made Websites: 20 Years in Website Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Itcss: Scalable and Maintainable CSS Architecture (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better Design Handoff with Figma and Utopia as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10 Valuable Things You Can Do During Home Quarantine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4k Wallpaper of Superhero Web Developers 2018 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted UI Design at Windows: Adobe XD, Figma, Affinity Designer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finally, Photoshop is dead for web and app design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xfive.co Case Study: Designed and Built for Performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Performance Awards – February 2016 as a story · 1 points
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