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Chris Coyier
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Chris Coyier's personal blog at chriscoyier.net covers web, design and programming. Since 2011, 49 different Hacker News readers have linked it 72 times, most often “Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for commentary on the web losing ground to native apps, the CSS-Tricks ownership change, and CSS techniques such as textarea auto-growing and nesting.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- Called "worth reading" and listed among favourite tech bloggers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker.
Most-linked posts?
- Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-02-28
- Modern CSS in Real Life3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-06
- What does it look like for the web to lose?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-04
- CSS Solves Auto-Expanding Textareas3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-09-30
- What happened with the Web Monetization API?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-27
- There are two kinds of advertising2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-14
- Scalable CSS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-07
- Everything about SEO is obnoxious2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-09
- The Proprietary Syndication Formats2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-17
- MDN Has Ads Now2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-19
What Hacker News says?
I was at DO at the time, so I can at least validate exactly what you implied about it frustratingly not being a priority. There's a whole story behind that I probably can't get into, but wish I could tell. I'm glad it's back with someone who loves the craft, cares, can dedicate the time to it, and not just own it to slap a "Powered by" logo on the front page. At least there's that. Edit: Worth reading Coyier's take…
Comment linking /2024/02/28/where-im-at-on-the-whole-css-tricks-thing/
on “CSS-Tricks has a new owner”Submitted Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing as a story · 339 points
HN discussion> I've been wrecking my brain how to make $10 on anything online If you are really serious about $10 (and not some other larger number), here are some tips: * Pick a topic you know really well (programming, cooking, sea diving, whatever) * Make an infographic (get started on the topic of your choice, some specific and useful practical tip, etc) - picking a template from free tier Canva will go a long way in producin…
Comment linking /2012/09/23/working-in-public/
on “Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer”Submitted What happened with the Web Monetization API? as a story · 219 points
HN discussionReminds me of https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/04/what-does-it-look-like-fo...
Comment linking /2023/01/04/what-does-it-look-like-for-the-web-to-lose/
on “Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly”Submitted Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web as a story · 205 points
HN discussionI just weighed in on this in a slightly different way... how to email people for the first time: http://chriscoyier.net/2011/05/04/how-to-write-an-email-to-s...
Comment linking /2011/05/04/how-to-write-an-email-to-someone-for-the-first-time/
on “How to Email Busy People”Submitted Exposed RSS as a story · 116 points
HN discussionChris Coyier talked about it last year: http://chriscoyier.net/2012/08/17/sweet-spammer-justice/
Comment linking /2012/08/17/sweet-spammer-justice/
on “The Destruction of the Web”Submitted Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing as a story · 14 points
HN discussionPost-acquisition the Digital Ocean ran it for a little while with the same staff, then they let a whole bunch of people go (both digital ocean and css-tricks staff). The css-tricks website was basically dormant for a few years. Chris (the original creator of css-tricks) sick of seeing his creation stagnate tried to get Digital Ocean to get the website going again but it looked like Digital Ocean didn't know enough a…
Comment linking /2024/02/28/where-im-at-on-the-whole-css-tricks-thing/
on “The "most hated" CSS feature: cos() and sin()”Submitted 10 Years of Simutronics (2009) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionRegarding Chris Coyier's initial post "What does it look like for the web to lose" [1] and his conclusion "Let's ditch the idea of native apps. All web! All web! All web!" I've got to say, that's exactly how it looks like for the web to lose. By the web trailing the capabilities of native apps rather than innovating in what made the web uniquely successful. [1]: https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/04/what-does-it-look-l…
Comment linking /2023/01/04/what-does-it-look-like-for-the-web-to-lose/
on “Why Google and Apple act the way they do, working to snuff out the mobile web”Submitted Being picky about a CSS reset for fun as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThe technique for "Make a textarea auto-expand" is obsoleted by a new CSS property("form-sizing"): https://chriscoyier.net/2023/09/29/css-solves-auto-expanding... Even without using this new CSS property, the technique that is used (adjusting the "height" of the element) is not ideal and can be glitchy. A better approach is to use a mirror hidden element: https://css-tricks.com/the-cleanest-trick-for-autogrowing-te.…
Comment linking /2023/09/29/css-solves-auto-expanding-textareas-probably-eventually/
on “Mastering DOM manipulation with vanilla JavaScript”Submitted Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIt's a font that morphes the text fragment "am-" into the curly dash using a ligature. https://chriscoyier.net/2025/05/10/the-am-dash/ But that won't help for long. If the Amdash becomes popular, then AI will pick it up, because "am-" is just a text fragment and AI can learn to produce it. Even worse if a future version of Unicode adopts the Amdash, then nothing will stop AI. Or the opposite happens as one already s…
Comment linking /2025/05/10/the-am-dash/
on “Amdash – Human only punctuation mark”Submitted Modern CSS in Real Life as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSee also https://chriscoyier.net/2023/02/18/whoa-mdn-has-ads-now/
Comment linking /2023/02/18/whoa-mdn-has-ads-now/
on “Ads on MDN”Submitted CSS Solves Auto-Expanding Textareas as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://lea.verou.me/ https://www.kottke.org/ https://chriscoyier.net/ https://seths.blog/ https://sive.rs/
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on “Who is your favorite tech blogger/writer?”Submitted There are two kinds of advertising as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>A Big Pile of Personal Developer & Designer Blogs in an OPML File https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/05/a-big-pile-of-personal-de...
Comment linking /2023/01/05/a-big-pile-of-personal-developer-designer-blogs-in-an-opml-file/
on “OPML File of Personal Developer Blogs”Submitted There are two kinds of advertising as a story · 3 points
HN discussionlooks like css nesting is really coming! "Chromium as of 109.0.5394.0 is updated with the new syntax."[0] the syntax has been finalized to allow an implied "&" so that it matches scss more closely than the initially selected syntax, to avoid copy-and-paste errors when moving from scss to plain css with nesting. found this via "A Brief and Probably Only Partially Correct History of CSS Nesting"[1] [0]: https://github…
Comment linking /2022/11/09/a-brief-and-probably-only-partially-correct-history-of-css-nesting/
on “Updated CSS Nesting Syntax to Avoid Common Copy-and-Paste Errors”Submitted What Happened with the Web Monetization API? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Other People's Busted Software Is an Opportunity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern CSS in Real Life as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Proprietary Syndication Formats as a story · 3 points
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